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The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
“Based closely on the yearlong bilk-and-murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the Maggie and Jiggs of serial killers, this is one angry film, derisive of its characters and audience. It depicts a tawdry America floundering in subterfuge amid flag waving, songs, and holidays. Consider the matchless grotesquerie of the first ‘Lonely Hearts’ captive, Doris (Ann Harris), pitifully middle-aged and naked in her bath, bellowing ‘America’ and waving her sponge with patriotic fervor—while the groom and his accomplice rifle her belongings. Doris, at least, is spared her life; the film spares her nothing else. Janet Fay (a superb characterization by the radio veteran Mary Jane Higby) succumbs to one of the longest and most grisly movie deaths this side of Torn Curtain. But by then, the film has already disposed of her humanity, mining for laughter her penny-pinching deceits and Jesus icons, defying the most saintly among us to forswear thoughts of homicide every time she chirps, ‘Innat cuuuute?’”

The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

“Based closely on the yearlong bilk-and-murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the Maggie and Jiggs of serial killers, this is one angry film, derisive of its characters and audience. It depicts a tawdry America floundering in subterfuge amid flag waving, songs, and holidays. Consider the matchless grotesquerie of the first ‘Lonely Hearts’ captive, Doris (Ann Harris), pitifully middle-aged and naked in her bath, bellowing ‘America’ and waving her sponge with patriotic fervor—while the groom and his accomplice rifle her belongings. Doris, at least, is spared her life; the film spares her nothing else. Janet Fay (a superb characterization by the radio veteran Mary Jane Higby) succumbs to one of the longest and most grisly movie deaths this side of Torn Curtain. But by then, the film has already disposed of her humanity, mining for laughter her penny-pinching deceits and Jesus icons, defying the most saintly among us to forswear thoughts of homicide every time she chirps, ‘Innat cuuuute?’”

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