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‘Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me’
By Rita Kempley
Washington Post Staff Writer
September 17, 1993
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"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" is a crude and unimaginative parody of drive-in movie fare from Joel Hershman, an arrogant and annoying recent film school grad who tells us, "I thought I could make a movie just as tasteless, vulgar and tacky as Hollywood but for a lot less money." Fine, Joel, just don't ask the rest of the world to fork over six bucks for your statement."Hold Me etc." is decidedly cheap, but it's not quite good enough to be called tasteless or even vulgar. Mainly it's just a shoddy irritant that imagines it's a cult movie because it's set in a trailer park. Hershman, who wrote it in 10 days and shot it in 18, sees it as an updated screwball comedy, with the emphasis on screw. A studly burglar (Max Parrish) hides out in an El Monte, Calif., mobile home park after accidentally shooting his bride-to-be (Sean Young, sinking low). The park is home to all kinds of kooky cliches played by all kinds of kooky cliches on the order of Diane Ladd as an aging Southern belle. There's a porno star (Andrea Naschak), her viriginal sister (Adrienne Shelly), a washed-up Hungarian opera singer (Ania Suli) and her loathsome son (Bela Lehoczky). And in a special acid flashback, there's Timothy Leary as a guy who can procure fake IDs. A lot of underdeveloped and overacted characters, they enjoy kinky sex and swear like sailors. That's because the film's financiers were expecting a porn film for the Korean video market. One other thing: All the characters hate their parents. Hmm. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" is rated R for foul language, nudity, sex and violence.
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