Lisa Loring Kept Her Career Creepy And Kooky Long After The Addams Family

It appears that once someone enters the world of creepy and kooky, a piece of them remains there for years to come. Lisa Loring proved this by continuing down the dark path of horror once her time on "The Addams Family" was done. The 1980s were a beautiful time for horror, with an abundance of slasher movies making their way into the world, filled to the brim with gore and cheesy, confusing plots. In 1987, Loring starred in "Blood Frenzy," a film about a psychiatrist who takes her patients on a trip to the remote Mojave Desert for a new type of therapy session. It doesn't take long before members of the group begin to turn up dead. Loring's character, Dory, is hailed by reviewers like Justin Kerswell in Hysteria Lives, who said, "Dory is a stand-out here; her performance is a hoot."

The following year, Loring appeared in another campy slasher film, "Iced." In this movie, she's with a group of skiers who may be facing an old friend-turned-foe who returned from the grave to seek revenge after being scorned by the one he loved (per Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life). While these films are certainly far from the witty Wednesday Loring portrayed in her youth, they're at least on the same path of kooky yet pure fun.