jeffyoung1 — 15 years ago(June 10, 2010 10:31 PM)

That's the one-million dollar question no one has every answered. Where is Lia Beldam today? Why did she just do one cameo role and stop?
Her bathroom scene terrified me. It wasn't meant to be erotic. It wasn't meant to get your jollies off. From the moment she stepped out of the bathtub you knew she was either a malevolent ghost or a malevolent spirit like a succubus. I wanted to scream out in the theater, 'Jack, get the hell out of that room!' It was obvious that whatever was depicting a young, shapely nude woman was NOT good!
Other directors have skillfully applied beautiful female nudity as a scare effect that works. You see some beautiful, mostly nude babe but you know there's a monster or demon masquerading. Another good example of using beautiful, sexy female nudity to frighten is, THE UNHOLY (1987). An arch-demon poses as a hot, sexy, red-headed, bodacious babe with only a sheer, see-thru black shift draped about her (it). It's intent is to seduce and kill Roman Catholic priests who fall temptation to its human appearance seduction inside a cursed church.