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Hexed
Hexed
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alan Spencer
Written by	Alan Spencer
Produced by	Louis G. Friedman; Marc S. Fischer
Starring	Arye Gross; Claudia Christian; Adrienne Shelly; Norman Fell;
Cinematography	James Chressanthis
Edited by	Debra McDermott
Music by	Lance Rubin
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	January 22, 1993;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$700,000
Box office	$2.7 million

Hexed is a 1993 American black romantic comedy film starring Arye Gross, Claudia Christian, Adrienne Shelly, and R. Lee Ermey, and written and directed by Alan Spencer. The film centers on a nebbish hotel clerk who is also a pathological liar that falls in love with a supermodel, unaware that she is a psychotic murderess and escaped mental patient. The movie was filmed in Dallas and Fort Worth.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Matt Welsh, a socially awkward hotel clerk and a pathological liar, falls in love with a supermodel who happens to be visiting the hotel in which he works, unaware that she is also a pathological liar and a psychotic murderer.

Cast

Arye Gross as Matthew "Matt" Welsh
Claudia Christian as Helen "Hexina" Spears
Adrienne Shelly as Gloria O'Connor
R. Lee Ermey as Det. Ferguson
Ray Baker as Victor Thummell
Michael E. Knight as Simon Littlefield
Robin Curtis as Rebecca
Norman Fell as Herschel Levine

Development

Sony Pictures Entertainment made an overall deal with Alan Spencer in 1991 with an emphasis on television, but Spencer wanted to try his hand at features. As part of the deal, Sony acquired a screenplay penned by Spencer from Weintraub Entertainment Group entitled Shattered Nerves. Spencer was attached to direct.^[4]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 9% of 11 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.7/10.^[5] Marketed as a parody, Hexed drew harsh reviews, but also occasional positive notices. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a grade of D−, writing it "starts out as the umpteenth Risky Business knockoff and then degenerates into a haphazard 'spoof' of Basic Instinct".^[6] In contrast, Jeff Mennel of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Hexed is a little bit Airplane! and a touch of High Anxiety, but it's all Alan Spencer. Spencer has concocted a fun, offbeat, uneven murder comedy that is stop-and-go in its delivery ... Hexed certainly has its share of narrative flaws, but they're worth putting up with for the wealth of laughter."^[7] Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide said, "Hexed is an occasionally funny parody of erotic thrillers (Basic Instinct, 9½ Weeks, and Fatal Attraction) that goes too far."^[8]

References

^ "Hexed". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 7, 2023.
^ "Hexed". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 19, 2023.
^ Houston, Don (July 9, 2005). "Hexed". DVD Talk. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
^ "Ep. 81 — Sledge Hammer". The Fogelnest Files (Podcast). March 13, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
^ "Hexed". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
^ Gleiberman, Owen (February 5, 1993). "Hexed". Entertainment Weekly.
^ Mennel, Jeff (January 25, 1993). "Hexed". The Hollywood Reporter.
^ "Hexed movie review". Movie Guide. January 25, 1993.