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Alyce Kills

Original title: Alyce
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 30m
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5.4/10
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Jade Dornfeld in Alyce Kills (2011)
 After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart along with anyone else who gets in her way.
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After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart alon... Read allAfter accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart along with anyone else who gets in her way.After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart along with anyone else who gets in her way.

  • Director
    • Jay Lee
  • Writer
    • Jay Lee
  • Stars
    • Jade Dornfeld
    • Tamara Feldman
    • James Duval
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    5.4/10
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    • Director
      • Jay Lee
    • Writer
      • Jay Lee
    • Stars
      • Jade Dornfeld
      • Tamara Feldman
      • James Duval
    • 36User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
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    Jade Dornfeld in Alyce Kills (2011)
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    Tamara Feldman and Jade Dornfeld in Alyce Kills (2011)
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    Jade Dornfeld
    Jade Dornfeld
    • Alyce
    Tamara Feldman
    Tamara Feldman
    • Carroll
    James Duval
    James Duval
    • Vince
    Eddie Rouse
    Eddie Rouse
    • Rex
    Larry Cedar
    Larry Cedar
    • Harold
    Yorgo Constantine
    Yorgo Constantine
    • Lt. Warner
    Megan Gallagher
    Megan Gallagher
    • Ginny
    Rena Owen
    Rena Owen
    • Danielle
    Tracey Walter
    Tracey Walter
    • Landlord
    Bret Roberts
    Bret Roberts
    • Mike
    Catero Alain Colbert
    Catero Alain Colbert
    • Mouse
    • (as Catero Colbert)
    Brian McGuire
    Brian McGuire
    • March
    Max E. Williams
    Max E. Williams
    • Kurt
    • (as Max Williams)
    Whitney Anderson
    Whitney Anderson
    • Renee
    Victor Avitia
    • Santiago
    Siri Baruc
    Siri Baruc
    • Erin
    Jake Thornton
    • Clive
    Gus Krieger
    • Quinn
    • Director
      • Jay Lee
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      • Jay Lee
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    • Trivia
      The titular character is named Alyce(Alice) and her best friend is named Carol Lewis (Lewis Carroll in reverse). Lewis Carroll wrote the novel Alice in Wonderland about a girl going down a rabbit hole, much like how Alyce descends into madness due in part to Carol Lewis.
    • Connections
      References Casablanca (1942)
    • Soundtracks
      Crazy Loco
      Written by Nate Hertweck & David Bowick

      Performed by Ocelot Robot

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    In this pointless, yet engaging psycho-thriller, a young woman spirals into anti-social behavior, dragging her acquaintances into the dark morass of her twisted psyche.
    With a cursory acknowledgment of the Lewis Carrol tale, Alyce is as much an entry-level clerical answer to the Fortune 500 American Psycho (2000), as it is a morbid odyssey of self discov- uh, make that self-destruction. Like a high-speed bullet train to Hell, Alyce Kills is novel, slick, and exciting, but it doesn't take us where we want to go.

    Young, pert Alyce (Jade Dornfeld) toils away in a depressing corporate cubicle for a shrewish boss at a thankless job. After work she trudges home to her cramped apartment to freshen up before some much needed steam-venting at dingy nightclubs. It's not much of a life, but Alyce has her friend Danielle (Rena Owen), an alpha female who provides Alyce with a framework of guidance upon which follower Alyce proves to be reliant.

    When Alyce and Danielle take the Generation X drug "ecstasy," Danielle sexually leads on Alyce. It comes out that Alyce has a crush on Danielle who then rejects her.

    Is it an accident then when Alyce "accidentally" pushes her off the roof a short while later? It's not clear whether Alyce is vindictive and a little crazy, or merely reckless, and irresponsible. Danielle stands on the ledge, tempting fate, Alyce mock-pushes her. Alyce is playing a game and behaves as if she doesn't intend the result -Danielle's dive to the pavement. But Alyce definitely intends to make contact, and under the circumstances it's no surprise when Danielle plunges to her doom.

    Despite that it led to tragedy, Alyce decides she likes ecstasy and trades sex for the drug from a repulsive dealer. Under the influence of the psychedelic, Alyce locks herself in her apartment for marathon-length trips during which she perpetually masturbates to violent videos. Conniving to obfuscate her complicity in Danielle's misfortune leads Alyce to take increasing risks until she pulls out all the stops. Traipsing across an urban landscape of bizarre characters, settings and situations, Alyce taunts the family of her victim, and eventually conspires bloody murder against those who annoy and inconvenience her.

    Having now lost Danielle's boundary-defining structure, Alyce's fragile veneer of sanity falls away like an uncoupled caboose from a speeding express. Her locomotive throttle is wide open and there's no engineer in the cab. Alyce resolves to take charge of her own life, but her brand of self-assertive, feminist "empowerment" is to embark upon a self-indulgent journey of risky behavior. Yet it's more like a spree, and it degenerates into a maelstrom of self destruction, dragging those closest to her along for a hell-ride on her crazy train.

    The theme of women scheming against men has been around at least since ancient Greece. From Aristophanes' Lysistrata, to the Biblical Eve convincing Adam to bite the proverbial apple, we've seen versions of the femme fatale in various literary incarnations through the ages. A few include Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra, Daniel Defoe's opportunistic Moll Flanders, Oliver Goldsmith's lighthearted, scheming, Katie Hardcastle in his 1773 play, She Stoops To Conquer, the conniving Matilda in Matthew Gregory's 1796 supernatural Gothic novel The Monk: A Romance, and the malevolent man-hater, Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.

    Whereas these feminine plotters employed cunning and sexual manipulation to achieve their aims, their modern counterparts resort to brute force. The concept of the fairer sex outwitting men has evolved into the myth of womens' domination over men, and convoluted orchestrations have given way to the karate kicks and machine guns used by characters such as secret agent Emma Peel (Diana Rigg; Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version) in BBC's The Avengers, to Max Guevera (Jessica Alba) in TV's Dark Angel, and La Femme Nikita (Anne Parillaud; Bridget Fonda in the US remake). The latest trend has dark-psyched vixens engaging in just plain psychopathic killing sprees.

    Alyce's quirky, but undeveloped character may be inspired by the leads in May (2002), and Neighbor (2009), two similar stories about loner hellcats who indulge their necrophilic and cannibalistic urges through acts of violence. Yet May (Angela Bettis), the film's namesake, commits her violence via a misguided search for an similarly misfit mate. In Neighbor, "The Girl," (America Olivo) thrill-kills for the sheer sadistic pleasure of it, making a living by robbing her victims and using their homes like motels.

    Alyce however, lacks any sensible or even cognizant motivation at all. Her deeds defy logic, her methods are unsound, and Alyce's lack of planning is sure to bring her only more trouble. We're not sure if even she understands her actions. This makes her singularly one dimensional.

    It's a profound disappointment, too. What's engrossing about Alyce's sexy character is not what she does, but the wry way she does it with her distinctively iconoclastic demeanor. It's not the revulsion inherent to her wanton acts of sex and violence that catches our attention, but the manner in which her smug, witty bearing holds out the promise of a satisfying payoff. We keep waiting to tumble into an epiphany of insight into her disturbed psyche, or at least some commentary about human nature or revenge. It never happens, and we're left feeling like the lone passenger on a runaway train with no destination in sight, and no emergency pull-cord to stop the projector.
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    • Release date
      • May 24, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Alyce
    • Filming locations
      • Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Social Construct
      • Scream HQ
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      1 hour 30 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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