Strangely enough this variant on the horror genre by the famous photographer Cindy Sherman started as a typical producer’s film. Producer Christine Vachon was looking for a director for a series of cheap independent horror films as she bumped into the photographer at a party. Sherman flung herself with great dedication into this new medium for her. With her début she wanted nothing less than to turn the horror genre, the toughest of all the genres, inside out. Her outspoken approach led to the creation of many women’s roles that were inconceivable within the traditional horror film. In this way it was the slut and not the virgin that was victorious. Sherman allowed herself to be inspired by the notorious bloodbaths of Dario Argento, but also presented her own obsessions. To her mind, the true horror is only to be found long after death – that is why she pays so much attention to presenting corpses in advanced states of decay.Dorine Douglas is a shy and mousy corrector. One heinous day the wind of change of a new manager (the legendary Fassbinder actress Barbara Sukowa) starts to blow through the office. Dorine is forced to stay at home and work on line. But at home she is browbeaten by a tyrannical and bedridden mother. One evening during a clandestine visit to the office, she accidentally kills a colleague. She takes the corpse home with her and soon grows attached to this patient company. She gets a taste for killing and goes out to hunt more trophies to fill her cellar with more pleasantly silent visitors. (GjZ)
