Fima is the main antagonist of Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation.
Biography[]
Fima was a owner of a bookstore in Los Angeles, but she was also the leader of a misandrist cult of witches, which consisted of her, her friends Jane, Katherine, Li and Janice, and a vagrant named Ricky. The cult had been responsible for the mysterious death of a woman who was set on fire and fell from the top of a building.
One morning, Fima meets Kim Levitt, an aspiring journalist investigating the case of the falling flaming lady. Kim asks for a book on spontaneous combustion, which Fima finds for her, but at checkout, Fima also insists that Kim take another book from her, Initiation of the Virgin Goddess. Kim initially refuses, but Fima insists and declares it her invitation to a picnic she's having with friends the next day.
Kim arrives at the picnic, and Fima introduces her to Katherine and Jane. The four ladies chat about the falling flaming lady, with the three cult members claiming to not know who the victim was, when Kim starts to feel the effects of the wine they are drinking and lays down tired. Just as Kim begins to see faces in the tree branches above her, her boyfriend Hank arrives and drives her to work.
After Kim and Hank begin to further investigate the mysterious case, Kim decides to visit Fima's apartment. Fima serves her a cup of tea laced with "elder bark", which makes Kim nauseous at first and sleepy later. Fima tells Kim of her daughter Lilith, whom she says was killed in an accident caused by Fima's ex-husband, and whom Kim reminds her of. Fima then offers her a date and insists that Kim eat it. She does, even though it looks like a roach in her hand. Soon after, Kim passes out.
She awakens surrounded by Jane, Fima, Katherine, and Li; they strip her of her clothes and paint a dark line from her forehead to her chin and a spiral around her navel. Ricky brings in the larva he had pulled out from a ventilation pipe and shown to Kim in an earlier scene, and he places it on her stomach. As Katherine chants a spell and Ricky and Fima slice open a live mole over her, the larva crawls under Kim's skin and up her body. It emerges from her mouth as a full-grown, giant, multi-segmented roach; Kim vomits the creature out. Ricky slices the creature in half and drips its innards onto Kim's face in a near-sexual manner.
Kim wakes up later fully dressed, still in Fima's apartment. The four women encourage her to stay, but she escapes and runs home. Ricky follows her there, however, and murders Hank. Ricky locks Kim in the meat locker at Munn Fresh Meat where she passes out again. When she awakens, she is surrounded by the entire cult. Fima places her in a chair and tells her "it's not easy to give birth to yourself." Ricky, wearing a phallic mask, rapes Kim. Kim reawakens alone in the meat locker; at first her fingers bind themselves together in a knot. Then she experiences incredible pain as her legs bind together into an insect-like tail. Kim passes out one more time. She awakens in the meat locker as the butcher shop's owner, Jo, opens the door. She frees her legs from a brittle cocoon-like substance and covers her as best as she can. Jo informs her that she has been "initiated" and that she should go.
Kim returns to Fima's bookstore where Fima admits that the falling flaming lady was actually her daughter Lilith, who died as a result of her failing to be initiated into the cult. She tells Kim that she wants her to take Lilith's place, and explains that the experience Kim just had has freed her from men and the fear that they impose on women. Kim believes she was simply hallucinating, but Fima insists that she created everything that she saw using the magic within her. Fima then reveals that she has to kill a man in order to complete her initiation, or else she will be consumed by fire just as Lilith was. In this case, Fima wants Kim to kill Hank's younger brother Lonnie, however Kim refuses. The next day, Kim brings a policeman, Detective Burt, to her apartment. There, everything is spotless and there's no trace of Hank's body.
At her office's Christmas party, Janice welcomes Kim to the family, and reminds her that she has to bring them the boy. Furious and confused, Kim storms out of the office and walks down the sidewalk. She notices Ricky following her and ducks into a motel room, in which the television displays lesbian porn, and Fima reminding Kim to give her the boy. Kim's feet begin to get painfully hot, and she jumps into the shower, but they burst into tiny flames. Ricky enters the room and, in pain, Kim agrees to kidnap Lonnie to complete the initiation.
Ricky drives Kim to Hank's parents' house, where she reluctantly lures Lonnie into Ricky's van, while Ricky deals with Lonnie's parents. The three head back to Fima's rooftop, where Lonnie is tied up, and Fima gives Kim a knife, telling her to kill him. Kim refuses at first, however, and when Fima tries to hold her hand and force her to do so anyways, Kim drives the knife into Fima's gut, and frees Lonnie during the ensuing chaos. Fima, enraged, tries to kill Kim, but Ricky suddenly comes over to her side, and tries defending her, although Fima simply stabs him in return.
Death[]
Fima falls from the roof
Kim experiences more stomach pains, and her fingers begins to knot themselves together, where they burst into flames. However, Kim simply uses her flaming hands to stab Fima in the gut, which sets her on fire, and causes her to fall off the roof to her death.
Fima's burnt body.
Trivia[]
- Fima is played by Maud Adams, best known as the titular character of the Bond film Octopussy.