Devil in the Flesh (1998)

It's Psycho Bitch From Hell time again, with Rose McGowan as a teenage trouble-maker who solves most of her family or romantic problems with murder. After the death of her abusive Mom in an arson fire, Rose transfers to a new school, where she develops a crush on dull creative writing teacher Alex McArthur, and to the home of her even more abusive grandmother, who gets a golf-club to the skull. Bits and pieces of The Craft, Fatal Attraction, Heathers, Poison Ivy, Wild Things and The Crush jostle for prominence in the script, which pays off with a really silly faked suicide and knife-wielding menace gambit.
KIM NEWMAN

First Published In: Empire (issue unknown)

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