![]() When chemicals that have been manufactured for warfare are applied, however, all deals are off and, for the men of New York City, its run for your lives time. Sometimes its a feeling of heightened bliss and attraction, other times its love and devotion, and still other times its safety and a feeling somewhat like home. When certain chemicals are applied to the opposite sex's visage, specific emotions are brought into fruition. Ketchum can advertise it like when the uncut version of Stephen King's THE STAND came out: It's the book THEY wouldn't let you read. There's got to be some way we can get our hands on that 400 page version. And it's not a finished product: there are too many errors that a proofreader should have caught. Don't think that this character or that is immune to being slaughtered: that doesn't hold here. Two warnings before I'd recommend this book to anyone: it is brutally violent. As is, I'm doing something I very rarely do: I finished LADIES NIGHT at 2 this morning, and today I started over from the beginning. Would the toxin wear off eventually, or does it completely change brain chemistry? What would be the probability of an antidote? Are there any women who are immune to to unusual estrogen levels or other health conditions? Somewhere there's a 400 page version of this, and I'd love to read it. As order begins to be restored, the police are told to use their own judgment in shooting any woman on sight if they suspect her to be infected. There are lots of unanswered questions that I'd like to know about. I was reminded, too, of another of Cronenberg's films from the seventies, RABID. Obviously, Romero's film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and Cronenberg's film THEY CAME FROM WITHIN. Ketchum admits the influence of several sources on the story. ![]() He needs to travel a few blocks to his apartment to find what condition his wife, Susan, is in and to check on the safety of his teenage son. Eventually we see the main character, Tom, embark on a quest to redeem himself after being a rotten husband and indifferent father. Mayhem is probably erupting many miles away, but he has the good sense to limit himself to a small geographic area and let us imagine what's going on elsewhere. Some of the women exposed to the toxin were just passing through the city, so they'd be in the suburbs or on their way to other places. Ketchum sets strict discipline for himself. Soon the streets of the city are soaked with blood as women literally from ages eight to eighty are turned into killing machines with men as their targets. That evening the weather is warm and pleasant, but women begin to behave strangely. We don't know exactly what the compound is, but it's nothing nice. Goo spreads over the streets: it smells like cherry lollipops. The driver and a woman in a Buick are killed instantly. A chemical truck overturns in a residential neighborhood. ![]() LADIES NIGHT is set in Manhattan during a very short time span. I've been looking for LADIES NIGHT for several years and finally resorted to doing something I almost never do: buying a book new, at retail.
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