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| “ | Can't you see that? I was never Malcolm Sheen! That was one thing you could never understand. No one did. Human beings are very limited. We the characters in the comics have the essence of the unreal. To conquer your absurd world! | „ |
| ~ Malcolm decompensating during his confessions |
Malcolm Sheen is the main antagonist of the 1973 Spanish giallo film Sexy Cat. Malcolm is the son of a late editing tycoon who takes on the persona of the eponymous protagonist of the comic book series the family business invested in, intent on getting revenge against the people he blamed for the family's bankruptcy and his father's death.
Biography[]
| “ | I've completed my mission. My father was betrayed, and now at last, he has finally been revenged! | „ |
| ~ Malcolm bragging about his crimes during his reveal. |
Malcolm was the son of a major figure in the Gold Corporation editing magnate, his mother Diane being a medium. Malcolm had childhood polio, which left him under the intensive care of the family doctor, Dr. Prentice. In spite of Malcolm's full recovery, he pretended for years to still stay wheelchair bound. Malcolm's father worked with modelling photographer and film director Paul Karpis, when he stole the rights of adult comic Sexy Cat from creator and writer Martin Graham. When there was an unfortunate agreement with distribution rights, Karpis legally maneuvered retaining the rights to the franchise, let alone his invested shares. Malcolm's father lost his investment so badly the company would eventually go bankrupt, driving the man to dying from a double heart attack.
Malcolm was most devastated, ensuring his grief was absorbed by reading the Sexy Cat series. He long wanted revenge on the people affiliated with his father he blamed for the family's collapse. As Malcolm read more of the violent comics, he grew into a delusion he could transform into Sexy Cat and become a superhuman avenger of his father. Crafting a costume for himself, and donning it as he prowled, Malcolm set out to murder the figures of the creation and business deliberations of Sexy Cat, each of the murders inspired by upcoming publications of new comics and the murders illustrated in them. Malcolm began with Graham, who met with private detective Mike Cash to get his rights back. After Cash left, Malcolm cut Graham's throat with a dagger, based on the most recent publication The Venetian Dagger. Martha Florence, one of Karpis' actresses directly assisting Cash in the case while they grew casually intimate, was targeted next as witness. Malcolm dropped a poisonous snake off in her apartment, alluding to The Coral Snake, which bit Martha before she eventually died. Cash killed the snake, but he was too late to save Martha.
Malcolm later targeted Carla Glove, his father's former secretary. Malcolm manipulated his way in by lying he had a flower delivery. When Carla let him in, he knocked her unconscious, tied her to a radiator, and watch her suffocate slowly on a plastic bag while laughing. The oxygen depravation was bad enough Carla hallucinated "Sexy Cat" Malcolm as death itself. Cash arrived to find her dead too, modeling The Synthetic Death, the issue Malcolm was reading and he showed Cash when they met. Malcolm threw his voice and posed as Carla to let Cash into the apartment through the intercom system before leaving, proving Malcolm was further becoming grossly unhinged by his loss of identity. Even witnesses kept recounting they saw full well he was in a Sexy Cat costume during the murders. Malcolm finally decided to up the ante, opening a terrace window and knocking Diane out with an action figure to fake a "kidnapping for ransom". Fitting himself with poison-tipped claws, he hid in Karpis' wardrobe, then popped out and gleefully slashed him so badly, he killed Karpis and ripped out one of his eyes in the process. Dr. Prentice gathered the money and insisted he deliver the ransom alone, secretly knowing Malcolm was the killer.
Arriving at a junkyard, he confronted Malcolm, who was armed with a harpoon gun, and Malcolm stripped his mask and wig to reveal himself. He bragged he was smarter than everyone and that he avenged his father, then pontificated about he felt himself "becoming" his favorite comic book hero and planned to live out his delusions after killing Prentice. Cash startled Malcolm and sent him running, but after a length chase, Malcolm fought Cash by slashing with his clawed gloves and getting into fisticuffs. After incapacitating and dizzying Cash, Malcolm started a compactor at the junkyard and dragged Cash to it to crush him inside it. Prentice arrived with the harpoon gun and shot Malcolm from behind with it. Malcolm's heart was impaled, and he plummeted into the machine and was mangled to death.
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