| Killer Tongue | |
| Director: | Alberto Sciamma |
| Producer: | Christopher Figg Andrés Vicente Gómez |
| Cinematography: | Denis Crossan |
| Editing: | Jeremy Gibbs |
| Production Companies: | Lolafilms Sociedad General de Televisión (Sogetel) Spice Factory The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company |
| Distributor: | A-Pix Entertainment Ardustry Home Entertainment Buena Vista International |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom Spain |
| Language: | English Spanish |
Killer Tongue (La lengua asesina) is a 1996 British/Spanish comedy horror and science fiction comedy film directed by Alberto Sciamma and starring Melinda Clarke, Jason Durr, and Robert Englund.
In the film, a female bank robber is infected with material from a meteor and transforms into a bloodthirsty killer. Her pet dogs are also infected, and transform into drag queens.
In a region heavily implied to be the Southern Western U.S. with license plates from Texas and New Mexico seen, taking place after a successful bank heist, Candy and Johnny go on the run, abandoning the rest of their crew. Johnny is soon arrested and Candy is forced to hide out in a convent. An alien infested meteor lands in Candy's soup which infects her and her pet poodles. The infection causes dramatic changes in everyone who has consumed it, causing her poodles to transform into drag queens.[1]
Soon Candy also starts changing, her hair and skin change colour, spikes protrude from her spine, and her tongue extends and soon becomes murderous. This causes Candy to kill multiple people in various ways, by using her now bloodthirsty tongue.[2]
Critic review were overwhelmingly negative, criticizing the script, acting and comedy with reviews such as; "An aggressively over-the-top and incoherent spectacle that almost never makes sense" by Rob Gonsalves of Rob's Film Vault and "Sometimes you can know a stinker from its title, and, indeed, something by the name of Killer Tongue has 'crap' written all over it" by Michael Dequina of TheMovieReport.com.[4]
Melinda Clarke won the 1996 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress Award for her role in Killer Tongue.[5]