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Hazel Dobkins is a supporting antagonist in the 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film Basic Instinct. She is an associate of Catherine Tramell and is a known serial killer herself.
She was portrayed by the late American actress Dorothy Malone.
Biography[]
Hazel Dobkins is a former housewife and mother to three children living in San Franciso. On January 10th, 1956, she was taken into custody at San Quentin prison after inexplicably murdering her entire family with a kitchen knife that she had received as a wedding present when accused of the crime, she didn't even bother to try and deny it.
Eight years later she was released from custody in 1963, sometime after this she would meet and become friends with the murder-mystery novelist Catherine Tramell who would use Hazel's story as the basis for one of her books.
Trivia[]
- According to her mail that Detective Nick Curran was observing, her address is 26 Albion Road, Mill Valley, California, and her zip code is 94941.
Quotes[]
- NICK: (slowly) Do you remember a case -- 1956 -- Hazel Dobkins?
- GUS: (grins) Hell yes! Couldn't get it outta my head for years. Still can't. Nice little kids -- nice husband, wasn't porkin' around -- no financial problems. One day -- outta the clear blue sky -- she does 'em. All of 'em. Used a knife. He got for a wedding present. Didn't even deny it. Sweet as honey. Said she didn't know why she done it.
- [Nick just stares at him.]
- NICK: You want a name from the present? How about Hazel Dobkins?
- CATHERINE: [She looks at him a long beat, sips her drink, never takes her eyes off him]: Noah was my counselor in my freshman year. (she smiles) That's probably where I got the idea for the icepick. For my book. Funny how the subconscious works. (a beat) Hazel is my friend.
- NICK: She wiped out her whole family.
- CATHERINE: Yes. She's helped me understand homicidal impulse.
- NICK I don't understand what the hell's going on here, pop.
- GUS Ain't that hard, son. This young farmgirl, she got tired of all that attention goin' to her little brothers -- she fixed 'em. Just like 'ole Hazel Dobkins fixed her whole family -- except young Roxy here, she didn't use a wedding present. She used Daddy's razor.
- EXT. CATHERINE'S HOUSE ON DIVISADERO - DAY
- He gets out of the Porsche, starts to go in. He looks disturbed Catherine comes out of the house with Hazel Dobkins, the old woman we saw with her in Mill Valley. Nick watches them a beat, then goes up to them.
- CATHERINE Hazel , this is Nick. I told you all about him. This is Hazel Dobkins.
- HAZEL (smiles) You're the Shooter, aren't you? How are you?
- He looks at her a long beat.
- NICK Fine. Thank you.
- He looks at her sort of warily.
- NICK ( to Catherine) Can I talk to you a minute?
- CATHERINE (to Hazel) Honey, why don't you go in the car? I'll be right there.
- The old woman starts going to the Ferrari.
- HAZEL (brightly) Goodbye, Shooter.
- Nick looks at Hazel a beat, then at Catherine.
- A VOICE INSIDE Catherine?
- Nick looks -- Hazel Dobkins is there.
- Catherine still has her eyes on him.
- CATHERINE Right there.
- A beat, and then she turns to go inside. Hazel Dobkins smiles slowly at him.