In this one, we have Miriam McDonald involved in a group of women that will do anything to get their way. Which is why the final film, Poison Ivy: The Secret Society, appearing eleven years after the third film, feels so very different. It is no wonder that she took her performance here and was able to ride that rocket to a number of television sitcoms, including My Name is Earl.īut, as a number of years had passed since the original, the time was running out for these films. Pressly is a firecracker here: complete and total seduction. Pressly, a model at the time, simply cranks up the heat and burns through the Greer family. Holy shit and hot tamales, ladies and gentlemen. She is out for revenge and will tear apart the entire family to right a wrong that happened so long ago in the Greer household. Īnd then along comes Jaime Pressly in Poison Ivy: The New Seduction as the master manipulator, Violet. And so the guilty pleasures would continue. But New Line Cinema knew they had something that fans wanted more of: celebrity skin. Was Lily a better film? Absolutely not nothing about the film suggests anything more than softcore dalliances. The bonus in the story of a guarded art student turned wild woman once she discovers Ivy’s secret diaries was the amount of nudity Milano agreed to. That was all I needed to be front and center. Poison Ivy 2: Lily would feature the adorable Alyssa Milano from television’s Who’s the Boss and the successful Embrace of the Vampire, where she first shed her child star image. But the killer hook was just who it was that would be featured in it. It made sense then that Poison Ivy, after being the hit that it was at video stores and then on television, would have a direct-to-video sequel.
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įeaturing Tom Skerritt, and Cheryl Ladd, Poison Ivy’s erotic status was cemented thanks to the blistering performance from Barrymore, who was more than ready to shed her image that many of us had remembered her by. Everyone – and I do mean everyone – was caught off guard by just how thrilling and suspenseful the story about shy teen Sylvie ( Gilbert) and her family’s unexpected brush with the dark fate that only a seductress like Ivy could bring about. And, yes, there was a line of curious men AND women at the video store, all ready to see just how she had matured. The story at the high school I was attending at the time was that in Poison Ivy, Drew Barrymore (in the role of Ivy), proves herself to be fully. But, when the film failed to perform (I know, I know) at the box office, it eventually took root in the fertile ground of late night cable television. Erotic and tense, the film took Sundance by surprise, eventually earning Sara Gilbert a nomination at the Independent Spirt Awards for Best Supporting Female.
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"īefore becoming a vehicle for starlets to shed their clothes and reignite their stalled careers, Katt Shea’s film, Poison Ivy was quite the barnburner. "It’s Fatal Attraction for teens and young adults thanks to The Poison Ivy Collection.