- The House of Yes (1997)
- THE HOUSE OF YES is a comforting holiday movie for people who think they have fucked-up families. The worst person in the world is not your mother or father after all, but probably someone like Parker Posey’s Jackie O. With a performance that sizzles like seltzer water, Posey makes sociopathy looks seductive. Likewise the film lures you into its house of horrors with wicked wit; you’re laughing until you come upon the entwined skeletons in the closet. In his debut film, Mark Waters shows us that he has the same sick sense of humour as his brother Daniel, who wrote HEATHERS (a favourite, of course). Unlike his brother, however, Mark cannot take much credit for the clever writing—much of the brilliance of THE HOUSE OF YES likely lies in Wendy MacLeod's original screenplay. Perhaps more could have been done to make its adaptation to screen more necessary. But the film is still good fun—with a pretty pink pillbox hat on top.
- Party Girl (1995)
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