I love that line, it's so dark and kinky! This is my favourite episode of the rather lacklustre season 6. It's a deliciously dark and twisted episode and I think its strange twisted ambiance makes up for its very slight plot. Most of the time these episodes didn't really, but you do usually get a few more twists and turns before it gets to the ending. I do love a good psychopathic monster/freak though, and I pretty much rate this episode solely for the character of the demented Molly. William Malone hasn't directed that many features, but his horror work has been mostly good and he has a great talent for gothic fantasy in real world settings. This story is just about this Italian mook thug type person, Carl, who crashes a Halloween party to hassle his ex wife. We hear that he's had a violent history with her and possibly even murdered an earlier wife, so you know that he's basically a bad dude who's gonna eventually get a comeuppance, and he finds her and she tells him to get lost and he storms off in a rage, and then encounters a mysterious and alluring masked lady, and the two chat and hit it right off, but is the bewitching femme fatale all she seems, is she more woman than the brutish Carl can handle? She is! So yep, very small and to the point plot but that's okay, it is really all about the crazy living doll freak lady Molly, and what a striking creation she is. Sherrie Rose's makeup and design still look amazing, her face looks so weird and shiny, almost like glistening wax, just like a mask, which is what you're meant to think when you first see it. And when you know that is her skin, it looks even more creepy, a living mask! Freaking marvellous idea to use in a story. She was definitely one of the weirdest and most sexy creeps in the history of the show. I love how gloomy, desolate and burned out her squat of an apartment is, like it's a reflection of her twisted soul. Her real name is a mystery and she doesn't seem to have any mirrors, and when Carl grabs her face near the end, demanding she take off her "mask", the way the flesh of her face is so delicate and tears as he grabs it looks so painful and disgusting! She looks her eeriest near the end, when she stands poised to slice above her soon to be dead bow-legged brutish assailant, she looks so scary and weirdly angelic... They're both such messed up people that you don't exactly feel bad for the guy. Not sure why Molly does what she does either but I can't say I'd be too stable if I had a head like that on a body like that! The only way she feels she can see herself is through the sightless eyes of others, their disembodied faces frozen, in silent screams. Darkly beautiful...
