Scorned (1993)
9/10
Patricia Langley, the woman Bronson
5 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
SCORNED is an erotic thriller, a true erotica classic—surely one of the best and weirdest of Shannon's movies. A sleazy melodramatic vigilante thriller. Sleazy like Bronson's revenge thrillers.

Shannon/'Patty'/'Amanda' looked like a big mean doll.

A blonde, meek ,obeying and ideal housewife, Patty ; her husband, Truman Langley; a business partner of the husband; her husband's boss; her husband's rival, Alex Weston; and the family of Alex: Marina, Robey, and their housemaid Belle. Marina Weston is a drunk, but she has a nice body, and shows it twice—in her sex scene with Amanda, and during a shower scene.

Truman is a jerk; he uses his wife to get promoted. But he won't be. So he had his wife possessed by another, and his place in the firm, lost.

Patty becomes a vigilante.

Her aim is to suppress the entire family of the guy who took the place wanted by her husband . This intruder is, as I mentioned above, Alex Weston.

First, before taking revenge on the Westons, she makes her hand by killing the man that her late husband forced her to sleep with ….

The script is deliciously primitive and wholly unsubtle—see the way Patty manipulates Marina, or the nasty way of her transformation into a bitch—she hates even Marina's pets. The plot is intensely schmaltzy and melodramatic. Patricia Langley, the widow, now going by the name of Amanda, is extremely hateful and vengeful. The plot is also quite memorable.

One good thing is that her dis-likable husband, Truman, an ambitious businessman ,leaves the sets quite quickly.

Mrs. Tweed wears some impossibly hideous glasses for sometimes (as a recent widow).

The good aspect of the movie is that Patty/ Shannon makes love with almost everybody—anyway, with the whole Weston family—first, with Robey; then, with his father Alex; then with Marina ;then with Marina; and then again with Robey; Patty also drugs Marina and gives her large quantities of Veronal.

That was a fine time for such thrillers; Mrs. Tweed was dashingly young, and apt to make such flicks. She made more movies with this director/ actor; but this one is the best.

Truly recommended, and not only for Shannon fans.

The sex scenes are soft, but good—Shannon had spectacular tits and ass.

'Your son is a better lover than you; so is your wife, for that matter', says 'Amanda' to Alex. So here is a sense that she possessed, had them all.

SCORNED is a good dirty trashy thriller made in '93.

A doll turned killer. She possesses, in turns, the husband, the wife, the son; this movie is a Bronsonian sleazy fancy. The scene of the simulated masturbation is very hot. SCORNED is so exciting precisely because it's so dirty and trashy.

The cast is interesting: Mrs. Tweed (who is again quite badly dressed); Stevens, who deserves the title of Shannon—director; Kim Morgan Greene, a hot girl, as Marina, Alex's wife.
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