cult film freak: ken russell

Written by James M. Tate / 10/03/2021 / No comments / annie potts , anthony perkins , bruce davison , drama , eighties , john laughlin , kathleen turner , ken russell , louise sorel , neo noir , romance , seth wagerman , thriller

KEN RUSSELL'S EXPLOITATION NEO NOIR 'CRIMES OF PASSION'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhR9GkxYHlbtfz_W_3fxyNJqzGB5jl1xSwuqA4r6DDRN3HPOhzcoTBEHuY7ELKxDx3HfkBs1m-or22B5OA3URqlW3ylXuQfN5uud4MpJB-rm1iTjHpX0A5FldnGVtSq6-N7MS9K2XLjmgq_g2F6kesFCZ48cobG_m49u9GO06R6xQAj8NGKF0LPa4yg/s1858/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-18%20at%204.00.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhR9GkxYHlbtfz_W_3fxyNJqzGB5jl1xSwuqA4r6DDRN3HPOhzcoTBEHuY7ELKxDx3HfkBs1m-or22B5OA3URqlW3ylXuQfN5uud4MpJB-rm1iTjHpX0A5FldnGVtSq6-N7MS9K2XLjmgq_g2F6kesFCZ48cobG_m49u9GO06R6xQAj8NGKF0LPa4yg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-18%20at%204.00.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: CRIMES OF PASSION Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>If Brian De Palma and Paul Schrader had a baby, it'd hang around Ken 
Russell's CRIMES OF PASSION starring 
Kathleen Turner as a fashion designer by day, anything-goes hooker by 
night, crossing paths with sexually-frustrated family man John 
Laughlin who, in a Neon Neo-Noir fashion, is hired by Turner's daytime boss to trail her nightlife... Buried lead John Laughlin, more comfortable as a fourth or fifth banana (like the faithfully protective muscle-head in the same years' FOOTLOOSE), tries his very hardest to wield the intensity to learn the taboo 
trade and, fitfully curious, becomes one of her most loyal (and beloved) customers in sexy/steamy scenes perhaps too intense for casual viewers and not enough for the hardcore crowd...

annie potts, anthony perkins, bruce davison, drama, eighties, john laughlin, kathleen turner, ken russell, louise sorel, neo noir, romance, seth wagerman, thriller

KEN RUSSELL'S EXPLOITATION NEO NOIR 'CRIMES OF PASSION'

Title: CRIMES OF PASSION Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 If Brian De Palma and Paul Schrader had a baby, it'd hang around Ken Russell's C...

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