GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Lexx (1997)
Info:
- Release Date: April 18, 1997
- Creators: Chris Bould (director), Paul Donovan (writer)
- Genre: Sexploitation Sci-Fi
- Rating: ★★★★☆
Plot:
- Everyman Stanley Tweedle is unexpectedly granted power of the Lexx , a Manhattan-sized planet-destroying insect/ship. He takes it and flees to the Dark Zone, accompanied by the lovely, dead assassin Kai and half-lizard, über-babe Xev Bellringer (Xenia Seeberg, replacing the original Zev, Eva Habermann). I refuse to mention the love-starved disembodied robot head 790, as I'd prefer to pretend it doesn't exist.
Notes:
- Any scene with Michael McManus, the man who's single-handedly putting the fun back into necrophilia. Sure, Kai's a rip-off of Cesare in Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and he's the sole remainder of a race that went into battle wearing garishly clashing silk threads and singing three part harmony, but he's also unbelievably, heart-stoppingly gorgeous. Aw, hell, Kai could spend an entire episode grimly put his hair in a bun and I'd watch...
- Trying to choose between the exuberantly sexy Xenia Seeburg or the exquisite Eva Habermann as my favorite Xev/Zev.
Cast:
- Michael McManus as Kai
- Eva Habermann as Zev
- Xenia Seeberg as Xev
- Brian Downey as Stanley
- Barry Bostwick as Thodin
- Malcolm McDowell as Yottskry
- Tim Curry as The Poet
- Rutger Hauer as Bog
- Doreen Jacobi as Wist
- Ellen Dubin as Giggerota
