YMMV / Poison Ivy Film

• Awesome Music: Fanservice aside, it's undeniable that the first film has an excellent (if theme-heavy) noir-inspired score. The music during the funeral scene would not be out of place accompanying the birth of Jesus.
• Common Knowledge: The exploitation-heavy nature of the sequels has led to the original film suffering this as well. There is in fact no gratuitous nudity in the first film, and it's far more of a psychological thriller along the lines of Fatal Attraction.
• Cult Classic: The film became a cult favourite of the 90s thanks to positive word-of-mouth and reruns on television.
• Jerkass Woobie: Word of God is that Ivy is one - Katt Shea seeing her as someone who just wanted to be loved. Sara Gilbert agreed and ad-libbed the "I love her" line towards the end.
• Les Yay: Very heavy between Sylvie and Ivy. They even tell each other they love each other and kiss at the end. Tellingly, Sara Gilbert later came out as a lesbian (and this movie was apparently her first girl-kiss!), and Drew Barrymore is bisexual.
• Nightmare Fuel: That poor dog in the film's opening that got ran over by a car and left on the road. It was still breathing. And its organs were hanging outside of its body. No wonder Ivy put it out of its misery.
• Retroactive Recognition: Leonardo DiCaprio has a tiny role in the first film as a kid that can be seen carrying some books, and is credited as "1st Guy."
• Squick: Ivy slipping Sylvie some tongue during a kiss — while Sylvie is hallucinating she is conversing and kissing her dead mother.
• Tear Jerker: Sylvie's closing lines, ad-libbed by Sara Gilbert. Even though Ivy destroyed her family, Sylvie's not above still feeling empathy and compassion for her:
  I still think about her. I guess, still love her. She might have been even more alone than I was. I miss her.

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