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Dark Romances Vol. 2 (1990)
A horror movie anthology: "She's Bad, She's Blonde, She's Lunch" follows a couple as they hold up a store to pay the rent, then take an ill-fated trip to Lover's Lane, where they meet a man involved in genetic research. "Cardinal Sin" features a young man who escapes into Hustler fantasies and must avoid his overbearing and religious mom. In "Pet Shop of Death" a henpecked husband goes to a specialty pet store to get something to help free him up so he can pursue his neighbor. "Last Love" is about a psychiatrist who is forlorn over the loss of her husband, and takes steps to make her affair with his ghost more permanent. Finally, in "What Goes Around..." a composer who can't create music since the death of his wife and child finds new inspiration from the affair with a femme fatale.
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A horror movie anthology: "She's Bad, She's Blonde, She's Lunch" follows a couple as they hold up a store to pay the rent, then take an ill-fated trip to Lover's Lane, where they meet a man involved in genetic research. "Cardinal Sin" features a young man who escapes into Hustler fantasies and must avoid his overbearing and religious mom. In "Pet Shop of Death" a henpecked husband goes to a specialty pet store to get something to help free him up so he can pursue his neighbor. "Last Love" is about a psychiatrist who is forlorn over the loss of her husband, and takes steps to make her affair with his ghost more permanent. Finally, in "What Goes Around..." a composer who can't create music since the death of his wife and child finds new inspiration from the affair with a femme fatale.
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Genre:Horror
Written By:Bryan Moore
In Theaters:1/1/1990
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Runtime:80 minutes
Studio:Distant Horizons Ltd
Cast
Bryan Moore, Mark Shepard, Rodd Matsui, Patricia Miller, John Strysik, Samuel Oldham
Director
Brinke Stevens
Diana
Scott Wyler
Marley
Elle Rio
Herself (Dream Girl)
Linda Miller
Marley's Mother
Fox Harris
Dr. Howard
Katina Garner
Sam's Wife
Mark Addy
Sam
Larry Coven
Psychiatrist's Patient
Ron Kologie
Jay
Jeff Maxwell
The Artist
Bryan Moore
Comic Store Owner
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