Twist #4- Ray (Kevin Bacon), who is a police officer, goes to Kelly’s family guest house to confront her on Suzie’s disappearance. ![]() Then the two dispose of a body wrapped in plastic in the swamp. He proceeds to beat Susie to death on the beach with Kelly nearby. Twist #3- Kelly is worried that Suzie will blab what they did! She wants Sam to get rid of her. It is here we learn they were all working together to extort money from Kelly’s family. Twist #2- Sam, Kelly, and Suzie gather in a hotel room for some X-rated activities. During the trial Suzie (Neve Campbell) breaks down on the stand and confesses that the girls collaborated to falsely accuse Sam of rape because they were mad at him. Twist #1- Sam (Matt Dillon) goes on trial for the accusations of rape from Kelly (Denise Richards) and Suzie (Neve Campbell). When a beloved high school guidance counselor in an affluent community is accused of rape by two female students, the police uncover that appearances can deceive…… ![]() Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, and Matt Dillon Wild Things (1998) was directed by John McNaughton and stars Matt Dillon ( The House That Jack Built), Kevin Bacon ( Tremors), Neve Campbell ( Scream franchise), Denise Richards ( Starship Troopers), and Bill Murray ( Ghostbusters franchise). This March 20th celebrates the 25th anniversary of the film. Sit down and buckle up as we revisit this thriller and count the plot twists! I have a gut feeling Wild Things is going to end up on a lot of otherwise respectable critics' “guilty pleasures” lists, not least of all mine.Wild Things (1998) should have been called ‘Wild Ride’ because I am still recovering from the whiplash from all the twists and turns. One very important note: When “The End” comes onscreen, stay seated - the film continues to unfold, with even more outlandish plot twists to follow. Brainless and trashy in the extreme, it's also the most canny fun to be had in a while, if you're partial to a swampside Cheez-Whiz nosh. On second thought, scratch that: Wild Things has no good girls, just horny ones and dead ones (and maybe horny dead ones if someone can get George Romero to do a sequel). In keeping with the noir sensibility, there's no moral in this film - except perhaps the old saw about good girls going to heaven and bad girls going everywhere. Even Russell's smallish part as Richard's rich floozy mom has zip to it, although she still sounds for all the world like she's reading her lines off the Goodyear Blimp. Dillon, who apparently hasn't aged since The Flamingo Kid, has finally mastered the fine art of cinematic lechery. ![]() Director of photography Jeffrey Kimball has a ball coming up with ingenious new ways to make Campbell (who needs help) and Richards (who doesn't) look slutty. The fun of Wild Things - and there's a lot of it - is in its never-ending game of cross and double cross: Who's scamming who is the tune McNaughton's playing, along with who's screwing who, and of course that old standby: Is that really Kevin Bacon's penis? It's stupid, asinine stuff when you get right down to it, but fun nevertheless. After the accusations, Sam takes on a shyster lawyer (played to the hilt by a goony, thoroughly believable Murray), while local detective Bacon tries to sort it all out. Still, like Henry, Wild Things is shot in a filter-heavy, smeary-lens fashion that makes the blinding Florida sunshine look positively grimy (how anyone ever gets a tan in this film is one of the great mysteries of the universe). McNaughton has come a long way since his personal high-water mark with 1990's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, though you wouldn't know it from this teasey, cheesy mess. Dillon plays Sam Lombardo, the ladykiller-cum-boating instructor at a tony South Florida high school who finds himself accused of rape first by one leggy blonde student (Starship Troopers' Richards) and then another, darker one (Scream's Campbell) in this noirish sleazefest that plays like Basic Instinct meets Out of the Past and feels like Party of Five as directed by the Dark Brothers.
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