The residents of Starliner Island enjoy a luxurious and opulent lifestyle incorporating the best in country living with the services of the nearby city... until something goes wrong. A strange disease begins to infect the residents causing violent outbreaks of uncontrollable violence combined with unusual sexual behaviour.
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Actresses:
Barbara Steele & Susan Petrie
Petrie is distraught when she discovers her husband is infected with the organisms and she runs to the apartment of her friend, Steele. Little does she know that Steele is already infected and the urges of the "unusual sexual behaviour" get the better of her and she begs Petrie to kiss her. Petrie is confused and taken aback but Steele keeps on, and strokes her head and breasts and she gives in and they kiss. The organism passes from Steele to Petrie and now they are both infected. Petrie kisses her more.
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Actresses:
Lynn Lowry & unknown
Lowry is infected and tries to kiss the doctor but he sees the organism in her throat and knocks her out, tying a bandage around her mouth to stop the creature getting out. He half drags her along a corridor but infected people lunge out at them, including one woman who escapes the confines of the wooden cages and grabs Lowry, kissing her forcibly. The doctor is forced to abandon her to her fate and escapes. We return briefly to see the two struggling in a locked kiss/embrace on the floor.
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Well, now, you're probably wondering what this is all about. Two very brief kisses, surely not worth a mention? And yet... and yet... there is something about these scenes that has stayed with me a long time. In the first I think it's the idea that Susan, now infected, throws all caution to the wind and abandons herself completely to the lesbian experience. After such nervousness in the face of Barbara's pleading, she suddenly goes for it, and I kind of like that. If only David Cronenberg the director had left us with them just a little bit longer....!
The second scene I think had elements of a woman giving in to the advances of another, a woman who will not take no for an answer, and I kind of like that too.
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