Butterfly Kiss is a 1995 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It stars Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves. It was also released under the alternative title Killer on the Road.
Set on the bleak motorways of Lancashire, Butterfly Kiss tells the story of Eunice (Plummer), a nomadic serial killer, and Miriam (Reeves), a naive, innocent and lonely young girl who falls under her spell.
Miriam, a somewhat ret...
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Butterfly Kiss is a 1995 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It stars Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves. It was also released under the alternative title Killer on the Road.
Set on the bleak motorways of Lancashire, Butterfly Kiss tells the story of Eunice (Plummer), a nomadic serial killer, and Miriam (Reeves), a naive, innocent and lonely young girl who falls under her spell.
Miriam, a somewhat retarded young woman, runs away from home and meets Eunice, a sadomasochistic lesbian serial killer who wears chains around her body under her shirt. Eunice soon completely dominates the innocent and childish Miriam, leading her into sex and murder. At a truckstop Eunice first offers the unwilling Miriam to a trucker for sex, then rescues her in mid-rape by murdering the horny driver. When the hitchhiking duo are picked up by another licentious male, Miriam returns to their motel room to find Eunice and their benefactor having rough sex in the...
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