Kim Levitt
Kim Levitt | |
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Silent Night, Deadly Night character | |
Created by | Brian Yuzna Arthur Gorson S.J. Smith |
Portrayed by | Neith Hunter |
In-universe information | |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Editor, journalist |
Family | Hank (boyfriend) |
Nationality | American |
Kim Levitt is a fictional character in the
She is later featured in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker in a cameo appearance as a friend of the protagonist, Derek's, mother.
Appearances
Kim first appears in
After spending
At her apartment, she is comforted by Hank, but Ricky breaks into the apartment and kills Hank with a butcher knife. Kim's co-worker, Janice, arrives at the apartment, and is revealed to be a cult member herself. Ricky takes Kim to a local Chinese meat market next-door to Fima's bookstore, and locks her in the meat cooler there. Inside, Kim experiences bizarre hallucinations and witnesses her hands contorting together, and her legs twisting into a spiral. She loses consciousness again, and awakens to Ricky raping her as the entire cult watches. After the ordeal, Kim returns home and calls a police detective to her apartment, but they find no trace of Hank's body.
When confronted by Ricky, Kim agrees to acquiesce to the cult's wishes, which entail an initiation ritual in which a
In Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker, Kim appears as the friend of Sarah, the child protagonist's mother. Kim visits Sarah at her home, bringing Lonnie with her, who she has now adopted. Lonnie is hospitalized after using a pair of roller skates given to him as a gift that contain rockets in them, causing him to lose control.
Reception
Contemporary critics have read the character of Kim as comparable to that of the titular character in Rosemary's Baby (1968).[2] Treated unequally in her workplace by her male co-workers (particularly her chauvinist boss, Eli), she has been read as a feminist character; yet she triumphs over evil by refusing to commit the sacrifice of a male (Lonnie) as an initiation into the witches' cult.[2][3]
References
Citations
- ^ Towlson 2014, p. 191.
- ^ a b Towlson 2014, p. 192.
- ^ Fry 2009, p. 172.
Bibliography
- Fry, Carol Lee (2009). Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film. Lehigh University Press. ISBN 978-0-93422-395-9.
- Towlson, Jon (2014). Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-78647-469-1.