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La langue tueuse

Original title: La lengua asesina
  • 1996
  • R
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
1.4K
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Melinda Clarke in La langue tueuse (1996)
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Body HorrorDark ComedyComedyHorrorSci-Fi

A bank robber seeks refuge in a desert gas station run by nuns, awaiting her boyfriend's release. An alien meteorite transforms her into a flesh-craving monster with a monstrous tongue, whil... Read allA bank robber seeks refuge in a desert gas station run by nuns, awaiting her boyfriend's release. An alien meteorite transforms her into a flesh-craving monster with a monstrous tongue, while her poodles become drag queens.A bank robber seeks refuge in a desert gas station run by nuns, awaiting her boyfriend's release. An alien meteorite transforms her into a flesh-craving monster with a monstrous tongue, while her poodles become drag queens.

  • Director
    • Alberto Sciamma
  • Writer
    • Alberto Sciamma
  • Stars
    • Melinda Clarke
    • Jason Durr
    • Mapi Galán
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    1.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alberto Sciamma
    • Writer
      • Alberto Sciamma
    • Stars
      • Melinda Clarke
      • Jason Durr
      • Mapi Galán
    • 31User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Melinda Clarke
    Melinda Clarke
    • Candy
    Jason Durr
    • Johnny
    Mapi Galán
    Mapi Galán
    • Rita
    Mabel Karr
    Mabel Karr
    • Old Nun
    Robert Englund
    Robert Englund
    • Prison Director
    Alicia Borrachero
    Alicia Borrachero
    • Reporter
    Doug Bradley
    Doug Bradley
    • Wig
    Michael Cule
    • Frank
    David Dale
    • Portia
    Daniel Edwards
    Daniel Edwards
    • Loca
    • (as Danny Edwards)
    Terry Forrestal
    • Postman
    Ricardo Fraguas
    • Photographer
    Alicia Marina
    Alicia Marina
    • Cook Nun
    • (as Alicia Garrigues)
    John Hampden
    • TV Host
    Kimberly
    • Mimi
    Luchi López
    • Chubby Nun
    Stephen Marcus
    Stephen Marcus
    • Ralph
    Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    • Rudolph
    • Director
      • Alberto Sciamma
    • Writer
      • Alberto Sciamma
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    4ma-cortes

    Below average Spanish/British horror comedy with lots of gore , blood and guts

    Silly terror picture with a myriad of weird and unimaginative scenes . This horror story is set in New Mexico when something falls from space onto Earth , it involves two delinquents , she is Candy (a beautiful Mandy Clarke) and he is Johnny (Jason Durr) , they flee with the loot from a hold-up , but the latter is trapped and does prison time . Later on , Rita hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station cared by a group of nuns . Everything trembles and an asteroid crashes onto Earth . As a meteorite crashes near the station transforming the young girl into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and the puddles have become people (now very famous Jonathan Rhys Meyers , among others) , in fact into four Drag Queens . The whole thing grows even weirder as her fiancé getaways from jail and also encounters the meteorite , and Rita (Mapi Galán) , a mute novice who is become into a sexy drum majorette , but the guards are after him . While , Johnny being chased by the jail officials led by a nasty Prison Director (Robert Englund who along with Doug Bradley as Wig are two terror myths) , and even the chief warden has its own portable toilet . After that , the Drag Queens/poodles dance in front of the wardens and the prisoners, then the wardens shoot the dancers ; meantime an old nun (Mabel Karr who married the great Spanish actor Fernando Rey) is tied down in their car . The whole bunch eventually comes into conflict and the events go wrong .

    This is a hilarious horror parody , surrealist , extreme spoof and gross-out but also with some brief moments being bold and fun . This is a slightly funny film , including entertaining events , giggles , profanities , and amusement but also very embarrassing as well as absurd . The main starring results to be the ¨killer tongue¨ , it delivers the goods , adding some acceptable FX , as when the tongue slaps Candy when she tries to cut it with an electric knife ; furthermore , the tongue writes on her forehead and makes many other fantastic things . The film moves in fits and starts most of which would be desirable , with more traps the viewer resists any kind, and some moments of enjoyment and others quite a few ridiculous . The flick is realized in ¨Troma¨ and ¨Frank Henenlotter¨ style , plenty of quirk roles , amazing transformations , abundant make-up and strange situations . The characters are all odd , grotesque and weird and the film races on at incredible speed . Dirty humor turns out to be sometimes cheesy and gross-out with numerous naughty and picaresque situations such as sex jokes , bad taste and adult scenes . However , it also contains uneven comedy , piggy humor , abound sexual scenes , profanity and grossed issues . A few of the scenes are amusing , they are elicit chuckles but no very enjoyable laughters . It is nicely starred by Melinda Clarke , she is gorgeous playing as a possessed thief who wears an eye-popping transparent dress ; Melinda starred known terror movies as Mortal Zombie and Spawn . The picture contains loads of fun as well as gore here and there and a passel of cameo appearances or brief interventions such as Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Doug Bradley , Stephen Marcus and Spanish actors such as Alicia Borrachero , Jose Truchado , Alicia Garrigues and Mabel Karr .

    Colorful and brilliant cinematography by Denis Crossan , a good cameraman who has photographed several successes such as The Hole , I Know What You Did Last Summer , Pink Panther , Agent Cody Banks and World Without End . It was shot in Almeria (Spain), where in the 60s and 70s was filmed many Spaghetti/Paella Westerns . The motion picture well financed by the great Spanish producer Andres Vicente Gomez was regularly directed by Alberto Sciamma . He was born in 1961 , Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain . He is a writer and filmmaker especially known for 2002 Anazapta , 2003 Las Mansiones de Jericó and this 1996 La Lengua Asesina ; his last one results to be ¨De Alaska a Fangoria¨ (segment "Descongélate") whose band Fangoria and leader Alaska composed the musical score for ¨The Killer Tongue¨.
    bob-594

    run of the mill bizarre but yet oddly satisfying

    This movie right off is not one of the most bizarre or even gory films which I have seen. The movie tries too hard to come across as both. I usually disregard plot and characters in these films because it always makes things confusing. The plot in KILLER TONGUE at the begininng is terribly confusing. The film is by no means bad. Actually I enjoyed the movie.
    4capkronos

    Wildly uneven attempt at a tailor-made cult film

    Here's a horror version of PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT (they wish!) starring Melinda/Mindy (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3) Clarke as Candy, a desert dweller who pulls off a bank heist with boyfriend Johnny (Jason Durr). He ends up in a South-of-the-border prison run by the sadistic Chief Screw (an overacting Robert Englund in a toupee). She and her beloved pet poodles end up in hiding at a gas station convent until they're transformed by a newly fallen meteor. The dogs turn into obnoxious drag queen "bitches" and Candy develops a VERY long, talking, killing forked tongue she can't control. Thugs looking for the stolen loot and other assorted numbskulls add extra complications.

    First off, Clarke is fantastic and makes what there is to make of this movie. You watch her and see someone very funny during the slapstick scenes, very convincing during the horror scenes and VERY sexy in various wigs and disguises, including an eye-popping, skin tight latex bodysuit...and wonder how come this actress isn't a huge star. It's too bad the rest of this cult attempt doesn't live up to her promise.

    Blame director/scripter Sciamma, who thinks the outlandish premise alone is enough to sustain laughs...but his vulgar gags, annoying supporting characters and stupid dialogue are no substitute for a real sense of humor. Another nail in the coffin; the film looks cheap, lots of garish colors and sets are strangely muted by muddy photography and the dusty desert locales. Luckily for Sciamma that Clarke is in his film, because she alone keeps you watching.
    5lastliberal

    My tongue is everything you never were!

    This was Alberto Sciamma's first film, and it won him a Best Director award at the Fantafestival. I don't know what he was aiming for, but he hit something.

    While her boyfriend (Jason Durr) is in the cooler, Candy (Melinda Clarke) hides out in a nunnery. Not your ordinary nunnery, but one that runs a gas station in the New Mexico desert.

    After some alien magic, Candy grows a long tongue and her poodles are turned into flamboyant drag queens (one is Jonathan Rhys Meyers). This are certainly getting interesting because this isn't just a long tongue, it's a killer tongue. It craves meat! While Candy is getting used to her new tongue, her boyfriend is being tortured by none other than Robert Englund, who is the Chief Guard at the jail.

    The nuns don't go away from the story after Candy leaves. One (Mapi Galán) is wandering the desert and comes on some alien rock that gives her healing powers, and another has been transformed by the transvestites.

    The huge tongue - we are talking 6+ feet here - transforms and talks! Candy tries to commit suicide, but the tongue heals her just like the nun in the desert heals her boyfriend.

    That nun was doing some special healing to Johnny later on, and they barely escaped with their lives after Candy caught them.

    Anyway, Candy finds out that a six foot tongue can do things that Johnny can't.

    This is one strange movie. It would have been more interesting if the only nudity wasn't two men's butts.
    ibhoppin

    Could not believe what I was watching.

    Flipping through the stations the other night and came upon this movie. started watching it and was hooked. This is a melding of a sci-fi horror flick and all of the "Evil Dead" movies. The writing was a little below par but that was more than made up by the effects and the acting. Robert Englund was great. When it was over I still couldn't believe I had watched the whole thing. If you got the time and you are an "evil Dead" fan you will love this one.

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    • Trivia
      Originally, Bruce Campbell was cast as Johnny the gangster, but he dropped out due to other commitments when they had to postpone the shooting. Jason Durr was cast in his place.
    • Quotes

      Candy: My tongue is everything you never were!

    • Crazy credits
      This message appears in the closing credits: "All animals used during the production of this film were attended by their trainer and owner at all times and treated with the greatest respect. The crew, however, were overworked and underfed".
    • Connections
      Referenced in Rojo sangre (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      ¿Cuándo, por qué, cómo y con quién?
      Written by Carlos García Berlanga

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    • Release date
      • November 15, 1996 (Spain)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Spain
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Killer Tongue
    • Filming locations
      • Almería, Andalucía, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Lolafilms
      • Sociedad General de Televisión (Sogetel)
      • Spice Factory
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    • Budget
      • $4,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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