Lengua asesina, La (1996)

Director:

Alberto Sciamma

Writer:

Alberto Sciamma (writer)

Release Date:

15 November 1996 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi | Horror

Plot:

This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station...

Plot Keywords:

B Movie | Tongue | Alien | Desert | Drag Queen

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Alicia Borrachero	...	Reporter
Doug Bradley	...	Headwig
Melinda Clarke	...	Candy
Michael Cule	...	Frank
David Dale	...	Heidi
Jason Durr	...	Johnny
Danny Edwards	...	Loca
Robert Englund	...	Chief Screw
Terry Forestal	...	Postman (as Terry Forrestal)
Ricardo Fraguas	...	Photographer
Mapi Galán	...	Rita
Alicia Garrigues	...	Cooker Nun
John Hampden	...	TV Host
Mabel Karr	...	Elder Nun
Kimberly	...	Mimi
Luchi López	...	Plump Nun
Stephen Marcus	...	Ralph, Prison Guard
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Rudolph
Tusse Silberg	...	Mother Superior
José Truchado	...	Ted
Edward Tudor-Pole	...	Flash
Richard Waters	...	Vic
Nigel Whitmey	...	Chip

Directed by
Alberto Sciamma

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Alberto Sciamma		writer

Produced by
Windus Arthur	....	senior producer
Michael Cowan	....	executive producer
Christopher Figg	....	producer
Andrés Vicente Gómez	....	producer
Jason Piette	....	executive producer
Matthew W. Plummer	....	senior producer
Volkert Struycken	....	executive producer

Cinematography by
Denis Crossan

Film Editing by
Jeremy Gibbs

Production Design by
Jose Luis Del Barro

Costume Design by
John Krausa

Makeup Department
Shaune Harrison	....	special makeup effects artist
Duncan Jarman	....	special makeup effects artist
Justin Pitkethly	....	special makeup effects artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
José M. Garasino	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Graham Humphreys	....	storyboard artist
Fernando Sáenz	....	set designer

Sound Department
Alistair Crocker	....	sound
Robert Farr	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Dave Bonneywell	....	special effects supervisor
Jason McCameron	....	animatronics
Simon Williams	....	animatronic engineer

Visual Effects by
Richard Bain	....	visual effects designer
Adrian Banton	....	digital tongue effects supervisor: image animation
Frazer Churchill	....	visual effects producer
Matthew Holben	....	head of production
Charlie Noble	....	digital compositor
Paul Riddle	....	digital compositor: MPC
Keith Roberts	....	visual effects producer
Mark Stannard	....	digital compositor
Perri Wainwright	....	digital compositor
Kevin Phelan	....	scanning and recoding producer: CFC London (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Miles Cook	....	director of photography: second unit
Adolfo Morales 'Fofi'	....	first assistant camera
Micky Page	....	gaffer
Nick Ray	....	key grip
Jamie Summers	....	electrician

Editorial Department
Keith Mason	....	first assistant editor

Other crew
Carmen Muller	....	production coordinator
Lisa Vick	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Lolafilms
• Sociedad General de Televisión S.A. (Sogetel)
• Spice Factory
• The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company

Distributors

• A-Pix Entertainment
• Ardustry Home Entertainment
• Buena Vista International Spain
• Tohokushinsha Film

Also Known As:

The Killer Tongue

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bizarre sexuality and violence, and for pervasive language.

Runtime:

Norway:100 min | UK:95 min | USA:98 min

Country:

UK | Spain

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:MA | Germany:18 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Lolafilms

Quotes:

Rudolph: [sitting in kitchen] Well, mommy, it's just you're a girl who can't say no. That's all.

Soundtrack:

¿Cuándo, por qué, cómo y con quién?

Meanwhile... Killer Tongue!

I've recently discovered this movie, and you might say I've been catapulted into a miniature cult status with it!

I'm just amending my previous comment by saying; Killer Tongue is a film that has great unpredictable flair (I keep saying; "Meanwhile..." after scene changes with a lopsided grin), and reminiscent of many other filmmaker's early work, while they still have that restless vitality that comes without the jaded, cynical nature of experience. It's actually precisley something in that nature, something "funky", which I think a lot of big-budget movies have lost. Many of Mario Bava's movies have that great taste of whimsical flair, not the least of which is Danger: Diabolik or even Twitch of the Death Nerve. Some foreign films can really be found to deliver some spice!

Also, the Tongue itself is uncredited, isn't it? For a while, I thought it was Charlie Adler, voice of Ickis from Real Monsters, friends of mine joke its Harvey Fierstein, but I doubt that pretty well. Well, good luck out there, there's much I could say about the childlike nature that is tapped by any monster movie femme fatale, and the self-deprecating nature of the movie, but suffice it to say I've got the CD soundtrack, and I'm hunting down the DVD.