Wicked Stepmother

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Jonathan T @JJBlade Jul 14, 2025 An amazing movie that should have gotten a sequel. See more Steve D @RT35616104 Sep 7, 2023 Sad to see Davis reduced to this. See more Sep 6, 2017 Daughter is convinced her new stepmom is a witch. A comedy but a weak one. Larry Cohen is usually much better. Bette Davis' final film was not a particularly good sendoff. See more Feb 12, 2017 Well, they don't make them like this anymore. Mostly an homage to screwball comedies... Except it never gets as wacky as you would hope. I noticed Bette Davis disappeared from the movie after a point and apparently she became deathly ill and died 8 months after the movie came out. Eep. The MVP of the movie is Colleen Camp! I know her mainly as Yvette from "Clue", but she shows she has comedic chops. I think she fully understood the tone of this film; it's a pity the script and directing lets her down. Sadly, Larry Cohen in a scramble to rewrite the film as they were filming totally lost his mind and started losing track of all the characters and subplots. Had things been weaved together badly the film would've been much stronger for it. As it stands, it is a very messy movie - with a laughably terrible special effects driven finale. So we have a comedy that is light on laughs... Incoherent on story... But Colleen Camp showing a career that might have been had she not married the head of Paramount. And Bette Davis's last hurrah in an Ed Wood-ian quality final role. Verdict: Worth watching on cable. See more Feb 12, 2017 Well, they don't make them like this anymore. Mostly an homage to screwball comedies... Except it never gets as wacky as you would hope. I noticed Bette Davis disappeared from the movie after a point and apparently she became deathly ill and died 8 months after the movie came out. Eep. The MVP of the movie is Colleen Camp! I know her mainly as Yvette from "Clue", but she shows she has comedic chops. I think she fully understood the tone of this film; it's a pity the script and directing lets her down. Sadly, Larry Cohen in a scramble to rewrite the film as they were filming totally lost his mind and started losing track of all the characters and subplots. Had things been weaved together badly the film would've been much stronger for it. As it stands, it is a very messy movie - with a laughably terrible special effects driven finale. So we have a comedy that is light on laughs... Incoherent on story... But Colleen Camp showing a career that might have been had she not married the head of Paramount. And Bette Davis's last hurrah in an Ed Wood-ian quality final role. Verdict: Worth watching on cable. See more Feb 7, 2017 I'm a huge fan of writer/director/producer Larry Cohen, who's made excellent low budget films in just about every genre, but this comedy just felt awkward and was sadly not all that funny. Bette Davis plays the titular wicked stepmother to Colleen Camp after she marries her father, Lionel Stander. The film was not helped by behind-the-scenes strife when Davis quite the film partway into production over conflicts with director Cohen, who then abruptly wrote her out of the script and had her character transform into Barbara Carrera. The film does boast a good cast of familiar faces, including David Rasche, Tom Bosley, Richard Moll, Seymour Cassel, and Evelyn Keyes, but the film's real failing is that it's not very exciting or funny. Camp gets an A+ for effort and Cohen gives the film an enjoyably light tone, but the overall film just isn't funny, making it a bit tedious to watch. See more Read all reviews

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