Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell (1990) - USA - Horror - Unrated
Directed by John McBrearty
Starring Debbie Dutch, Eric Clark, Carl Johnson, Len Lesser, Gloria Hylton, Dori Courtney
Dear god this was fucking awful!
When I am up front with my overall opinion about a movie, I try to provide some criticism other than just saying it is a bad movie, but when a movie is just simply this bad, I can't even form any other opinion than to say this is fucking awful.
This movie starts out with convicts escaping from a work detail, killing prison guards on detail with them while several of them are shot in the process. The escape incentive was sparked by a female cyclist innocently enough distracting one of the guards by riding past them. This same girl is a member of a sorority going on a weekend getaway at a cabin belonging to one of the sorority girl's uncle. Her uncle is an archaeologist digging at a local cave uncovering an ancient idol which in turn possesses him, turning him into a super strong and hideous creature instructed to bring the idol sacrifices. Now there is a murderous creature on the loose with a cabin filled with unsuspecting sorority girls and frat boys, and an escaped prisoner on the loose.
Wow. I actually surprised myself I got that much of a summary out of it.
The movie is mostly a bunch of good looking girls who can't act, guys who really can't act, and one girl who takes her shirt off a lot; I would say she takes her shirt off whenever the script hits a lull, but if that were the case she would be naked for the entire movie. There's one or two decent actors, and one recognizable veteran actor in the movie, but there is little any of them can do with such a horrible script seemingly written by third graders; my apologies to third graders everywhere for even suggesting they couldn't do better than this. Even the veteran actor, Len Lesser you may recognize as Uncle Leo on Seinfeld, is falling on his face having no intelligible script with which to work.
Even with as bad as this movie is, it does actually have some good points; none of which improve it, but perhaps I can say they ease up the thumbscrews just a tad. They obviously did post-production audio loops as the dialogue is well recorded throughout the movie, and some moments when the audio does not sync with the lips. There was also a well done stunt where an escaped convict gets hit by a car.
The nudity factor is one girl who takes her top off a lot. With as many good looking women in this movie as there are, this is a huge disappointment. At least more and full nudity might have eased up those thumbscrews a tad more. I cannot really comment on the video quality as my copy was a VHSrip downloaded from Archive.org and was not that good. You can get the download here.
Recommend? Not unless you are a masochist. If you don't find pleasure in torture you may want to skip this one. I wish I had.
I found out about this movie from Christopher Zisi's review of it here.
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