Hexed (1993)

Hexed is the kind of gloriously off-kilter early-’90s curio that plays like a romantic comedy after it’s been lightly poisoned—bright, brisk, and happily unhinged. Alan Spencer keeps the tone mischievous and fast, letting Arye Gross’s jittery, sweetly hapless clerk spiral through a web of lies while Claudia Christian turns supermodel Hexina into a charismatic live wire you can’t look away from. The movie’s real pleasure is how it treats murder like a punchline without losing that thriller snap, stacking misunderstandings and close calls into a steady run of laughs. It is admittedly uneven and proudly R-rated in its sexuality and language, but if you enjoy underrated, oddball “date-night gone wrong” comedies with a dark streak, this one’s a surprisingly fun find.

Hexed is trying to mash up a sexy early-’90s farce with a light thriller about a clueless liar getting framed by a glamorous psycho, and on paper that’s a workable guilty-pleasure setup. In practice, it often feels like a derivative riff that can’t decide whether it wants to be a real suspense story or a spoof, so the tone lurches and the jokes land unevenly. The production looks and plays cheap, and the “edgy” R-rated humor leans into tasteless territory that can come off more grating than daring. If you like broad, sleazy comedies with cartoonish violence and don’t mind a messy, haphazard execution, you might get a few laughs—otherwise, this is one to skip to save your time.