Tease (1999)

If looks could kill, they'd look like Traci: young, innocent, appealing, deadly. Traci clings like ivy to her devoted mother and strikes with a vengeance at any man who intrudes on their relationship. Traci's mother is an attractive woman with a healthy sexual appetite, and the attention she pays to the men in her life, whether for business or pleasure, sends Traci into a frenzy of jealousy and rage. Now Traci, using her budding sexuality, will do anything...seduce anyone...murder everyone who threatens to come between them.

DVD Features:
Biographies
Scene Access

Better stuff out there.

Predictable plot, average acting, and an unsatisfying ending. If you want a thriller, look elsewhere. If you want to see a teenager trying to look hot and don't care about a good movie, then here ya go. November 16, 2003

this murderer is a joke....very predictable.

This movie is rather boring. It didn't hold my interest one bit. Here we have a sexy murderer that make these victims weak with envy that they let her kill them almost. Like wow.....give me a break. This movie is like Black Widow gone bad....very bad. There are better things to do then waste ur time watching this...like watching paint dry.

Only those who only care about sexy but dumb teen murderer would enjoy this movie, which i have a hard time doing because i only enjoy good written and acted movie. Not fake predictable stuff like this. October 18, 2003

I think the movie was totally awesome!!!

I think this is movie was great and a "very" hot erotic thriller. I would of given it at least 9 stars but hey that is just me lol. March 18, 2003

sexy, twisted, and well done

MANDY SCHAFFER!! MANDY SCHAFFER HOW SEXY CAN SHE BE!! BEING THAT I NEVER HEARD OF HER BEFORE IN MY LIFE SHE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB AS THE COLD BLOODED VIXEN TRYING TO KEEP HER MOTHERS AFFECTION. ROSSANNA ARQUETTE WAS VERY SMART YYET IN ALL FAIRNESS EXTREMELY OBLIVIOUS AS HER DAUGHTER WENT ON RAMPAGES. BUT THE MOVIE WAS NOT TRASHY, SOME GRATUIDIOUS SEX AND SKIMPY OUTFITS BUT HEY YOU GOT IT SHOW IT IS MY BELIEF. BUT HONESTLY IF YOUR NOT INTO TEEN DRAMA AND MURDER IN MOVIES OR NUDITY FOR THE SAKE OF NUDITY...[DON'T GET TOO EXCITED ITS 3 SCENES MAX] THEN ITS NOT FOR YOU BUT IF YOU LIKE YOUR MOVIES A LITTLE TWISTED THIS MOVIE YOU WOULD LIKE January 4, 2003

What a trash wallow

Oh man. If you want to give your internal Crow T. Robot a real workout, this is the movie to pop into the ol'VCR. The potential for cut-up lines in this film is just endless.

(Minor spoilers ahead. Hey, do you really care if a film of this quality is "spoiled?") Traci is a girl with a problem. Psychology has developed names for it when a child develops a sexual crush on the opposite-sex parent. But this girl seems to have one for her same-sex one, and I don't think there's a term for that. It might be because her mother Dana is played by Roseanna Arquette, whose cute overbite, neo-flowerchild sexuality and luscious figure makes me forgive her any number of bad movies or unsympathetic characters. Here Dana is not only clueless to her daughter's conduct; she seems to be competing for the gold medal in the Olympic Indulgent Mother competition.

It's possible that Dana misses Traci's murderous streak because truth be told, Traci seems to have the criminal skills of a hamster. It's only because the script dictates so that she manages to pull off any kind of a body count.

A particularly hilarious note in this movie is the character of Carmen, a Mexican maid who is described as Dana as around so long she's like one of the family although she dresses in what the director thought would say, "I just fell off the tomato truck from Guadalajara." Carmen is so wise to Traci's scheming, she might as well wear a sign saying, "Hey, I'm the Next Victim!" Sure enough, Traci confronts Carmen as she is making her way back from Mass, and bops her with one of those slightly angled lug wrenches that car manufacturers put next to your spare as a bad joke. I rather suspect than in real life those things are as useless as a murder weapon as they are for changing a tire.

In another sequence, Arquette wears a flimsy dress to a vineyard, under cloudy skies, talking to the owner. Cut to her in another flimsy dress under sunny skies, talking to the owner's brother. Then cut to her wearing the first dress, in the first location, under cloudy skies. You get the picture. We're talking really bad directing.

As for skin, don't expect much, although Traci does own a nice couple of bikinis.

For those looking for a trash wallow, 8. For anybody else, 1/2. November 29, 2002

More reviews at Amazon.com ...