A
couple of women pledges Taffy
(Brinke Stevens) and Lisa (Michelle
Bauer) wants to join the sorority sisters
led by Babs (Robin Stille) but must take
alot from the sisters including having
their butts whacked by a board and whip
cream smeared on them. Next plan is for
them to sneak into a mall and go to a
bowling alley and steal a trophy. Along
with them are three frat boy nerds who
snuck into the Tri-Delt sorority.
They
do enter the bowling alley and spots a
punk that broke in as well Spider
(Linnea Quigley) and planned to steal the
place. So the rest leave her be and finds
the trophy but accidentally releases a
demon Imp who was trapped in the trophy
for a reason a long time ago for his evil
doings.
The
Imp grants them wishes only to be fake.
He possesses the sorority sisters and the
sisters go on a killing spree and it's up
to the head frat nerd Calvin (Andras
Jones) and Spider to find a way of
stopping the Imp's evil doings.
There's many
pointless camera shots and conversations
between the sorority nerds Calvin, Jimmie and Keith in their room of the sorority house
watching a cheesy horror flick and
wanting some action. It looked very goofy
and quite bland on how it was all done.
Some interesting shots on the sorority sisters Babs Peterson, Rhonda and Frankie putting on make up in a
dressing room and having discussions with
one another on what they will do to their
sorority pledges.
A nice camera shot on both Taffy and Lisa sitting on a couch and discussing about
what's going to happen to them in order
to get into the sorority which was in
fair shape.
Many corny shots on the sorority nerds peeking around the sorority house peeking
in a window along with trashy moments
on Taffy and Lisa getting their but whacked by a paddle or
whip cream sprayed on them by the sorority sisters.
There's also an atrsy close up shot on Taffy from her ankles down and up showering off
the gunk on her and having a discussion
with Lisa as well as a good
shot on a door peeking through with the sorority nerds watching
them and getting excited. Plus a nice
entrance on Babs pushing them
in with great shocked reactions by Taffy and Lisa.
There's a good camera shot looking up on
most of the main characters sitting at some
furniture with Babs scolding
them on what to do with them which seemed
very trashy and overly done.
There's some fun camera takes on the sorority sisters sneaking
into a mall after hours and running along
to go find their hideout to peek on their
co-ed's.
A good shot on a bowling trophy
lying on the ground starting to light up
with steam as well as good camera shot
looking up on all the people there by looking down with a
cheesy shot on an Imp character standing
there and talking.
There's a good shot on the background
with a stack of gold bars and Jimmie getting excited and running to it after
he asks for a wish.
Also a nice shot on Lisa wearing a lingerae acting lustful for Keith after asking for
his wish.
There's also a good shot between Spider and Calvin with Taffy in a background wearing a prom queen
outfit and spinning around which looked
perfect. Plus there's many other good
blocking scene's between the two of them
with Lisa trying to get Keith to
feel her up which was looking believeably
lustful.
A nice camera shot moving into a
changing room with Lisa on top
of Keith as he reacts well
being nervous and Bauer just
gets sex crazy with him which seemed to
work.
A good cheesy scene with both Rhonda and Frankie having their faces
glowing from a surveillance TV screen and Babs backing up to a wall and
getting spooked along with a nice shot on
these two sorority sisters gasping as well as being turned into
horror film character with Babs trying to get out of the room sobbing in
fright.
There's also good shots on her running away in a mall hallway along with
cheesy shots on her falling to the ground
after she's electrocuted by trying to
open a glass door from the mall.
Good reactions on both Jimmie and Taffy after they find out
their wishes are fake as well as both Rhonda and Frankie jumping into the scene
trying to attack with Spider trying to battle them off which looked
energetic and finally the scene's brought some horror into the story. Plus there's great close up
camera shots on all of this.
Good side camera shot on Rhonda using a decapitated head as a
bowling ball along with a cheesy shot on
the head rolling along. This looked comedically entertaining along with the horror.
There's some fair takes on Spider and Calvin trying to escape in a
room with Rhonda trying to get
in and attack him which looked a bit
energised.
A good distant camera shot
looking down in one of the areas of the
mall with Taffy trying to hide
from Frankie while she spookily
tries to call towards her which gives a
cheesy horror feel to it but not scary
enough. There's an interesting battling
scene with Taffy trying to
whack her with a metal pole
and getting frusterated that she won't
die as well as a good shot on this possessed sorority sister lying on the ground with Taffy near her to see if she's dead and then a
nice close up shot on Frankie grabbing her ankle.
There's some neat cheesy discussions
between Spider and Calvin while trying to hide away from the
possessed sisters in a washroom which
brought some nice chemistry between the
two of them.
There's a nice shot on both Frankie and Rhonda grabbing Taffy on
both ends trying to split her in half
which looked quite cheesy as well but
painful. This was done in a nice horror fashion but nothing graphic revealed here folks.
A good moment with Babs possessed into an Elvira form approaching
towards Lisa in the change room acting
evil towards her with her words and Lisa herself acting frightened along with a nice shot
on Babs holding up a studded
black paddle coming right up to her which
looked nicely done for how it was
done with a cheesy horror flick like
this.
There's a pointless conversation in a
janitor's office with this person telling Spider and Calvin
about the Imp and his background on how
he was trapped in the bolwing trophy
which tries so hard to be funny but the
lines are terrible and the directing is
extremely bland I was thinking "Get
on with it!!!"
There's lots of perfect camera takes with
a struggling battle between Spider and Babs which looked
believeably brutal between the two of
them.
Some good cheesy shots with Frankie swinging her axe at Spider with
her dodging them which looked very
energised at the same time.
A good shot on Calvin in
the driver seat driving his car and then Rhonda in the passenger seat grabbing him
by surprise. There's also a nice shot on
the car flipping backwards and crashing.
This was the era that no
matter how bad the film was it still went
to the theatre's most of the times as
this one was one of them but wasn't a
success until it came to VHS. The budget
on it was very low but not totally made
for video quality so it looked good
enough to be seen on the big screen.
This film of course was made by the
makers of the trashy 1987 monster flick Creepozoids but this time around the film was a
parody of other horror films using
similar character's in it like Elvira or
Bride of Frankenstein. The film didn't
seem to make up it's mind as whether it
was leaning towards a dark comedy or a
horror flick but blends in with both.
However the film is neither funny or
scary by any means due to a terrible
storyline except for a scene when one of
these sorority sisters are possessed by
the Imp uses a decapitated head as a
bowling ball which showed some good
timing using both of these elements but
it was cheesy nevertheless but in a fun
way.
There's nice scenery around the mall and
bowling alley too which stars 3 b-film
scream queens that had a cult following
which these fans will enjoy them
performing in. Although the flick was
pointless and bombed by many critics
there's still something about this flick
that makes it fun to watch.
The Imp used in this film looked like a
plastic doll plus he wasn't the least bit
scary by any means but acted very
annoying and geeky.
There are some good horror like moments
with the possessed sorority sisters
attacking about to kill along with some
descent battling.
There's lots of skin in this one with two
scream queens from top to bottom which is
one of the film's main drawing cards
which is quite sad if you ask me making
up for a weak plot. Plus there's tons of
bad dialogues.
Bottom line is the film is a trashy
T&A flick that offers no laughs or
frights but there's the odd okay killing
in it as well as it seemingly like a pre-Leprechaun type of flick with the Imp doing similar
jokes but yet he is not funny nor scary
either. It's one of those flicks in a
Troma Team horror type of fashion (Except
nowhere near as gory) in which they are
reputed for putting tongue in cheek with
whatever they make and their movies are
damn terrible.
On the other hand it's fun to watch for a
party flick but not a film meant to take
seriously and lots of low production
values. A horror film this one would be
categorised than a comedy and a horror
spoof at the same time. Try at your own
risk.
The acting is pretty bad
which is to be expected from a type of
film like this one but some tried their
best effort at it. Andras Jones (Calvin) was starting off playing the head nerd
character as he didn't seem overly
convincing but seemed to try to pull this
type of a character together. He played
other roles unlike this one in future
shows as he did a much better job too and
better known for his work in them than in
this one.
This is for sure a must for any fans of
b-film scream queen Linnea Quigley (Spider) in which she plays a punk and
looking wild like and totally coming off
as a bad ass in the film. However, she is
sometimes too forceful with her
aggressive actions which seem way too
laughable. A great presence with her during her first appearance by getting aggressively
sarcastic towards her fellow actor when he
first spots her and then she tells him
about her stealing the place along with
others showing up and her mocking them.
This performance for an example at times seemed a
bit too forced. Yet she steals the performance
in this film so that's a good pointer on
her behalf as well as showing some good
energy too. She's good playing a bad girl
type of role in film's regardless.
Robin Stille (Credited as Robin
Rochelle) (Babs Peterson) did a fine job in her
first film Slumber Party Massacre but
however seemed to lack a bit in her role
as the head sorority sister babs in which
she tries to act emotionally scared as
well as getting stuck up at the sorority
house but seems quite sloppy by doing
both of this. During this time she was
drinking alot and was not sober during
many of her shootings on this film.
However, when she becomes a possessed
Elvira like character she really knew how
to act evil and violent too in which I
will give her credit for doing this.
Carla Baron (Frankie) showed some nice timing
when she becomes a possessed sorority
sister halfway through the film as a
Bride of Frankenstein character in which
she really knew how to sound creepy with
her voice sounding ghoulish as well as
nice hissing which she seemed to study
that part well.
Michelle Bauer (Lisa) was almost crowned a
b-film scream queen when this movie was
released although I never found her to be
a good actress she seemed to pull this
one off okay since it was noted to be a
badly acted flick regardless with her
calm speaking and behavior as well as
really knowing how to act lustful when
the Imp turns her into one for one of the
sorority nerds wish. Of course she acted
in adult film's during the beginning of
her career so she had experience doing
these kinds.
Brinke Stevens (Taffy) seemed to do okay in
her role and this one defineltely credits
her as a scream queen too which she was
being crowned to be one too while the
release of this and really comes across
nicely with her acting skills with the
cheesy plot in all her scene's of the
film.
Hal Havins (Voice of the Imp) really lacked in his role
as he was overly melodramatic and quite
annoying in which he does the same in Night
of the Demons although he is a
bit better in that one but not that much.
He really doesn't have a knack for acting
in my books at all.
Plenty of nudity
in this film which covered the weak plot.
It shows Brinke Stevens and Michelle
Bauer's characters naked from top to
bottom in a bathroom while cleaning off
whip cream and other gunk that was
smeared on them during a hell night
ceremony.
There's more nudity with Michelle
Bauer in the bowling alley when she
tries to seduce one of the frat boy's in
a change room.
A frat boy's head
is decapitated and later used as a
bowling ball
Someones head being chopped off with an
axe as the head fly's in the air hitting
a glass door.
There's the odd bass violin
chord strumming for the comedic parts
when the frat kids are sneaking around
the sorority house or doing other comedic
events. We hear some cheesy synthesizer
playing which sometimes worked along with
the odd screeching sounds too as well as
a synthesizer beating type of a drum and
other funky sounds too. Guy Moon composed
this all and used alot of the music from
his composing in Creepozoids too.
There's many cheesy 80's
songtrack pop bands used in the film
which seemed to work quite well but the
song that stood most in my mind was
"Sex" by BOOM BOOM with the nice rhythm beats to it which was
used during a nude scene between Taffie and Lisa while
cleaning themselves up after doing some
pledge work.
There's also a really cheesy song for the
opening and closing credits titled
"Here in Darkness" by Bob
Parr with tinkling synthesizer
playing with the song which really
sounded dumb for the movie I have to
admit.
Spider:
What is this, Midnight Wimp Bowling
League?
Taffy: Who are you? The Bride of
Dracula?
Spider: Oooo. Jump back. Prom
queen on the loose. Or is it high school
hookers?
The
Imp: Old Uncle Impy is just a little
bit cranky. No fun being locked up,
especially in a bowling trophy.
Uncle
Impy: Such a sour face.
Spider: Stuff it, you little
prick.
Uncle Impy: Uncle Impy will ignore
that remark but he'll remember it.
Frankie: You'll never be a Tri-Delt
sister now Taffy!!!!
Spider:
It's too bad we had to kill her. I really
liked the outfit she had on.
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