Poison Ivy - The Deadly Hug

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Movie
German title Poison Ivy - The Deadly Hug
Original title Poison ivy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Katt Shea
script Andy Ruben
Katt Shea
production Andy Ruben
music David Michael Frank
camera Phedon Papamichael
cut Gina Mittelman
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Poison Ivy II - Young and seductive

Poison Ivy - The deadly embrace (Original title: Poison Ivy ) is an American thriller from 1992. The director led Katt Shea , the writer wrote Andy Ruben and Katt Shea on an idea by Melissa Goddard . Sara Gilbert and Drew Barrymore played the leading roles .

action

The student Sylvie Cooper befriends her classmate Ivy. Ivy will soon be a regular at the Cooper's house. Sylvie's mother Georgie suffers from severe asthma and sometimes thinks about jumping off the balcony of her own house.

One day Sylvie goes on an outing even though she was supposed to help organize a party at home. Ivy is there for them. Sylvie's father, Darryl Cooper, is impressed with how attractive Ivy looks in an evening gown. Ivy seduces him after the party.

When Georgie is standing at the railing of the balcony, Ivy asks if she is thinking of suicide . She pushes Georgie, who falls over the railing and dies. Just in time, she hides from Sylvie, who peeks into the room for a moment, but doesn't notice anything.

After the funeral, Ivy tries to take on the role of Sylvie's mother. She offers Sylvie to confide in her. A little later, the girls clean Georgie's old car and take it on an excursion where Ivy drives the car. Ivy hums the same tune Georgie was listening to on a tape recorder the night she died. While Sylvie asks questions about how the evening will go, Ivy drives faster and faster and an accident occurs. Then Ivy pulls the unconscious Sylvie into the driver's seat.

When Sylvie wakes up in the hospital, Darryl thinks she is hallucinating and falsely accusing Ivy of being guilty of Georgie's death. Sylvie escapes from the hospital and catches her father having sex with Ivy at home. Then Sylvie runs away and Darryl looks for her. Only now does he notice the wounds from the steering wheel on Ivy's chest.

Sylvie returns to the house and finds Ivy on the balcony railing of Georgie's room. Ivy gives Sylvie a passionate French kiss and tells her that she loves her. A scuffle ensues in which Ivy falls from the balcony and thus dies just as Georgie died.

In the end, Sylvie's voiceover says she still thinks about Ivy and misses her.

Reviews

Roger Ebert criticized the casting of the film in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 29, 1992 . He said the result would be better if Sara Gilbert and Drew Barrymore switched roles. He also pointed to numerous borrowings from the Hitchcock films.

The lexicon of international films criticizes the film as "sloppily constructed". The thriller is "not exciting, but predictable and boring."

Awards

Sara Gilbert was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award . Katt Shea has been nominated for the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize.

Others

The shooting took place in Los Angeles . There have been several sequels to the film: 1995's Poison Ivy II was titled Duplicate, starring Alyssa Milano . Poison Ivy III - Sex, Lügen, Rache (original title: Poison Ivy: The New Seduction ) was released in 1997 and Poison Ivy IV: The Secret Society from 2008 was produced for television.

The English film title Poison Ivy is a play on words with the name of the leading actress Ivy and the English name Poison Ivy of the poison ivy, which mainly grows in North America .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  2. ↑ Poison Ivy - The Deadly Embrace. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used