Elsewhere, Señora Havisham sits in her room, furiously praying with her rosary when Devil Eunice enters her room, full of false smiles and reassurance. In subtitled Spanish, Señora Havisham says, "Get away from me, Satan!" but Eunice slaps the rosary from her hands. "Get on your knees," Eunice offers sweetly, "and we'll pray it all away." When that doesn't work, she yells at her in devil-tongue and shoves her to the ground. Now side-by-side, kneeling next to the bed, Eunice leads her in prayer, in Spanish. But before they're finished, she stands up and plunges a pair of scissors into Señora Havisham's neck. We see it full-on too, complete with blood spraying onto the bed. Wicked stuff. The poor woman bleeds out rather quickly, helped along by Devil Eunice stabbing her in the heart for good measure. And then it's off to the woods, with Eunice pushing the body in a wheelbarrow and dumping her in a clearing, for the Creatures to dispose of her, just like whatever's-the-opposite-of-God intended.
But Devil Eunice is not done, oh no! With her thirst for blood satiated, she now moves on to her thirst for carnal mischief. That means it's down the hall to Dr. Arden's office. He's so happy to see her -- his "little ray of sunshine." She's here on the pretext of updating him on the Creatures -- she says she's worried about what will happen to them when the weather gets freezing, much less the impending storm. Arden places a hand on her knee and reassures her that they only have to get the Creatures through the winter. That's when they ship off to finishing school in the Berkshires, I guess. He gives her knee a bit of a squeeze when he tells her how much her compassion for the Creatures means to him. He isn't even leering when he says it. He seems almost genuine. Devil Eunice, however, sees that it's time to strike. She sneers at him and says the only reason he has her down to his office just so he can undress her with his eyes and imagine sucking on her "rosebud tits." The soundtrack even screeches at this verbal turn of events. Arden recoils in horror and Devil Eunice can barely suppress a giggle fit. She's had an awakening, see; not to the Lord but to sex. She hikes up her skirt and reclines on his desk, offering herself to him. "Put your mouth where you want," she says. "Don't waste it. I'm all juicy." OKAY! Arden doesn't know what to do about this so he just slaps her and tells her to shut her filthy mouth. She calls him a "sad little pantywaist" and laughs her demonic laugh so much that the screen goes all blurry. He orders her out. This is a troubling development indeed for Dr. Arden and his Madonna/Whore complex.













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