99 & 44/100% Pure Horror story
Luden Sandelton, the meek and mild-mannered president of the Dermasmooth soap company, decides that the company's latest advertising campaign is a failure. To that end, he ends up firing the person who designed the artwork: Willa, his greedy, unfaithful, and narcissistic wife, who has a penchant for gory artwork. Upon learning that she has been fired and that her work is being universally panned, Willa goes on a psychotic rampage, getting her own deadly ideas to rectify the situation. Directed by: Rodman Flender. Story by: Rodman Flender.
15 total · 10 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extramarital affair | major | Willa was carrying on with her young lover, Tom, behind Luden's back. Little did she know that Luden had her under surveillance to protect himself in the advent of a divorce. It came to light the Luden had been unfaithful to Willa. |
| gold digging | major | Willa despised her meek husband, whom she had married only for his money, and was gleefully unfaithful to him. |
| how to dispose of a corpse and get away with it | major | Willa dumped husband's body in a vat of chemicals and made soap out of him. |
| husband and wife | major | Willa, an artist, and Luden, a soap company president, were in a troubled marriage. Willa was only interested in Luden for his wealth and the chances he offered for advancing her career in art. Both Willa and Luden had been unfaithful to each other. When Luden fired Willa from her role as soap product art designer, she beat him senseless with an oversized bar of soap after he rebuffed her demand for a divorce. It was all downhill for their relationship from there. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | Willa turned her murdered husband's corpse into soap and used it in the shower to wash herself. By an ironic twist of fate, the chemicals in the late husband's body turned the soap into a deadly corrosive substance, and Willa died gruesomely. One of the murdered husband's eyes peered out from the lethal cleaning product. |
| painting | major | While Willa designed product cover art for her husband's soap company, her true desire was to gain recognition for her gory paintings depicting nude figures. |
| spouse murder | major | Willa beat her husband senseless with an oversized bar of soap, rolled him up in a carpet, drove him to a factory, dumped him in a vat of chemicals, and made bars of soap out of him. |
| the desire for professional success | major | Willa longed to be recognized for her gory brand of painting. |
| vengeance from beyond the grave | major | Though the precise mechanics are left somewhat ambiguous, Luden knowingly or unknowingly, naturally or supernaturally, got back at his murderer, Willa, when the soap she had made out of his corpse literally melted her body. This is one interpretation of the events in the story. |
| what if I murdered someone in a fit of rage | major | Willa beat her husband nearly to death with an oversized bar of soap after he axed her art career and rebuffed her demand for a divorce. She subsequently finished him off in a mode deliberate manner. |