October 30th, 2024

A Mega Man-themed adaptation of “Death Becomes Her”.

In 1978, narcissistic and fading actress Blasto Woman (Madeline Ashton) performs in an awful Broadway musical called Songbird. She invites long-time frenemy, the leg-equipped and aspiring writer Splash Woman (Helen Sharp), backstage along with Blasto’s fiancé, famed inventor Dr. Thomas Light (Ernest Menville). Smitten with Blasto, Light breaks off his engagement with Splash to marry Blasto. Seven years later, a lonely, broken down, depressed, and destitute Splash Woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital where she obsesses over taking revenge against Blasto Woman.

Another seven years later, Blasto and Light live an opulent but miserable life in Beverly Hills; Blasto is depressed about her age and rusting body and Light, now an alcoholic, has been reduced to working as a mechanic. After receiving an invitation to a party celebrating Splash’s new book, Blasto rushes for beauty treatments. Desperate to look younger, Blasto is given the business card of Hypno Woman (Lisle Von Rhuman), a mysterious, wealthy socialite who specializes in rejuvenation.

Blasto Woman and Dr. Light attend Splash Woman’s party and discover that Splash is now slim, glamorous and radiant despite being fifty years old. Jealous of Splash’s appearance, Blasto observes as Splash tells Light that she blames Blasto for his career decline. Madeline later visits her young lover but discovers he is with a woman of his own age. Despondent, Madeline drives to Hypno Woman’s mansion. The youthful Hypno claims to be seventy-one years old and offers Blasto a serum that promises eternal life and radiance. Blasto drinks the serum which reverses her age, restoring her radiance, but Hypno warns her that she must disappear from the public eye after ten years, to avoid suspicion of her immortality, and treat her body well.