Perdita Durango

Don't let the generic US video title -- DANCE WITH THE DEVIL -- fool you. Cross TRUE ROMANCE with THE BELIEVERS, add in some pervy gangsters, Mexican wrestling, a truckload of human fetuses headed for a Las Vegas cosmetics lab and a Santeria sex, drugs and murder cult operating across the Texas border in Mexico (think Matamoros), and the result is this wild ride of a picture, based on the Barry Gifford novella 59º and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango.

We first met hellcat Perdita Durango (Rosie Perez) in WILD AT HEART, when she lived in Big Tuna, TX, and shacked up with world-class creep Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe); Perdita was played then by Isabe...