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The Blood Sister viewing (p. 705)

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Blood Sister eventually takes on a burn-scarred, deeply troubled adolescent punker-type Toronto girl who is sullen and, yes, reasonably tough, but is also vulnerable and emotionally tormented (the girl’s pink shiny burn-scarred face tends to writhe in misery whenever she thinks Blood Sister’s not looking) by the terrible depredations she’s endured as a result of her rapacious and unshakable addiction to crank cocaine […]

Context

Inside Himself's shocksploitation lampoon Blood Sister: One Tough Nun: a burn-scarred, cocaine-addicted girl whose ruined face writhes only when she thinks no one's looking — facial damage plus concealment-management, inside a JOI film. Carlisle identifies the actress as Marla-Dean Chumm and reads the character proleptically — filmed before Joelle worked with Jim, yet with "much in common with present-day Joelle," the film anticipating the woman. His reading, recorded not adopted.

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