Ghoulish Girls: Part 2

So here is the second part of my rundown of the ghoulish girls of horror cinema. This time we have a selection of real evil as they are examples of whom have provided some of the most graphic and horrifying scenes to ever have marred the mind. Whether you’re into possession, profanity, brutality or ghosts; suffering is there, sealed in the spirit of these girls and aching to be released on any who dare to enter their world.

Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair)
The Exorcist

If you have ever thought of playing with a ouija board then you might want to see The Exorcist first and consider whether you want to end up being tossed around in violent spasms, mutilating your own genitals and contorting your limbs so that North becomes South and East becomes West. Regan MacNeil was your average happy child; full of life, love and kindness to those around her. There was not a trace of hatred or malice that could be even slightly detected, that is before her transformation into a demonic slut in Satan’s service, begging to be…well let’s just say used, stabbing herself repeatedly with her once symbol of purity (crucifix) and using the foulest language that you ever did hear (I can’t quote as I think Moviezen would be forced too kick me off the website).  Teaming up with Captain Howdy, the evil spirit she released by messing with the ouija board, Regan was such a vile and upsetting character that she managed to traumatise viewers, driving them from the cinema and into the safeguard of paramedics. Regan’s ability to psychoanalyse those who oppose her is probably her greatest strength and planting seeds of doubt is a means of defecating on anything she may perceive as being holy. Giving Freddy Kreuger a run for his money in the face department, it is as though the blackness of her rotten soul is so poisonous that it has torn its way to the surface and then weaved itself in and out of her epidermis leaving cuts, scars, stale blood and scabby lips, with eyes like golf-balls. Be seriously warned, especially if you are a parent and wish to keep your image of little Jimmy or Julie untainted.

Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina)
Audition

Like Carrie in part one, Asami has an exterior that you couldn’t possibly believe could be housing a spirit so tortured, slashed and scolded that it would drive her to seek such brutal revenge. Asami is, like many Japanese females, servile, quiet, introverted and sweet, at least that’s what we’re led to believe at first, but in actuality there is such rage swirling around her insides that a lust for the perverse and cruel is born. She is a woman who has become very cynical of men due to the abuse she has endured, believing everything they say to be a lie and that by suffering at the hands of her experiments in physical pain they may actually begin to understand. It would be unfair of the viewer to just dismiss Asami as a psychopath in the same way that Annie was as Asami is actually relatively sane, aware of her actions within reality and believing to be totally justified in them. Oversensitive and thoughtful is a more apt description given her pre-meditated and calculated violence, though she is not justified in her actions, and the torture she inflicts on the genuinely caring Shigeharu is selfish, as she is so desperate for his whole love and attention that even his love for his son is unacceptable. Her skill at piercing Shigeharu’s eyes with needles and amputating his feet certainly does make you think twice about how much you actually trust and feel safe with those close to you, so if you see a copy of this film, a bottle of chloroform and a sowing kit in your lover’s residence, get the hell out.

Sadako Yamamura (Inou Rie)
Ringu, Ringu 2

Sadako has probably become one of the most infamous ghosts since Casper due to the success of the Hollywood re-make of the J-Horror revenge ghost film, insultingly replacing her with the not nearly as intense Samara. I think that if she were able to exact revenge beyond a videotape she would curse Gore Verbinski for diluting something that was perfect to begin with. The story of Sadako is a complicated one, but like Asami she has the mild and submissive exterior and like Carrie she has psychic abilities that leave her ostracised from her peers. After having been smashed over the head and thrown into a well by her adoptive father, because of the danger she poses, Sadako is effectively buried alive in a well as a lid blocks out all signs of life leaving her to die a slow and painful death. Like Carrie, she is just a victim of fate in that she is not personally responsible for any harm out of malevolence, but has been chosen by natural selection to bear what is actually a gift but unfortunately becomes a curse. The only way you can escape Sadako’s wrath is by passing on her curse for her by showing the haunting videotape that is the medium of revenge to another so as to free yourself. Not really present for the large part of Ringu she makes herself a legend within the space of a few minutes, creeping out of the television set, soaked to the skin in a white shawl and freezing the victim’s heart using nothing but pure 100% distilled to perfection fear.

Well there you have it, the most ghoulish girls of cinema. Why don’t you make their acquaintance, but be sure to offer no resistance as now you know exactly what a woman scorned is capable of. Pleasant screams.

Nathan
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