Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

Just hearing the name of this movie is enough to turn a few heads. I had a professor that always told me about this movie and I finally threw some money down and ordered it. I wasn’t too disappointed. If you are looking for some fun 80’s cheese, this is the ultimate. Directed by the man who brought you Witchouse, Beach Babes from Beyond, Creepozoids, and countless other films that should have never been made like the killer boy band movie, Ring of Darkness. Ugh. Anyway, David DeCoteau is a legend in his own right. He got his start in the same place a lot of big name filmmakers did with none other than Roger Corman.

Sorority Babes starts with a group of college boys who get mixed up with a sorority initiation prank. The final initiation, after an approximately 10 minute spanking scene, is to steal a trophy from the bowling alley at the mall after hours. The gang of kids head out only to run into a girl named Spider (Linnea Quigley) who is robbing the alley. They finally get a hold of the trophy and accidently unleash a mischievous imp into the mall. He grants them wishes that of course go painfully wrong and makes some really bad jokes at their expense. Gotta hate those imps.

I had a really good time watching this. I just wish I would have waited to have a group of people over to watch it for the first time. It’s definitely the kind of movie you crack open a case of beer, order a pizza, and laugh at all the way through. It’s hard to review this movie because it doesn’t take itself seriously at all. DeCoteau knew what he was making and went for it. Nothing in the story is believable and why should it be?

The characters were all really formulaic and I think I loved them for that reason. It had all of your typical 80’s teen movie characters. There were preppy girls, nice girls, nerds, a bully, a punk and a bumbling old janitor. I was happy to see Linnea Quigley was the punk, Spider, who was robbing the bowling alley. She played her usual Return of the Living Dead Trash character and was great. She is probably the reason most people watched this movie when it came out! 

For all of you Linnea Quigley fans out there, here is a clip from her 1990 release: Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout. Just got a bootleg of it and I’ll definitely have to put it next to my Chuck Norris: Private Lesson tape.

Scared Stiff

This movie just popped up on my radar recently and I was able to pick up the VHS fairly cheap online. It seemed fitting to throw on the blog. Scared Stiff is from 1987 and it is also known as The Masterson Curse.

Scared Stiff is tells the story of a family that gets more than they bargained for when they move into an old mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. Pop singer Kate Christopher (Mary Page Keller), her son Jason, and Psychiatrist David Young (Andrew Stevens) move in together after Kate met David under his care. Soon after moving in Kate begins to have visions/dreams about the slave master of the house. Soon strange things are happening to them and others surrounding the family and the mansion.

This damn movie felt like a chore to watch for the first hour. The acting is stiff, the characters are not well developed, and the story isn’t totally there. They deal more with the history of the house than they do any real character development of the main three characters of the movie. You are given little bits of pieces to put the story together and it never really gets explained fully. Most things are explained with the simple answer… CURSE.

Scared Stiff has an interesting, original premise and it does hold your attention to an extent.  I am going to attribute the good things in this movie to one of the three writers of the movie, Mark Frost. Frost was one of the creators and writers on Twin Peaks. This movie having three writers was probably the reason it had so many downfalls. Director Richard Friedman should have just let Frost have his way with the screenplay.

I digress. The last half hour was really fun. If there was anything worth watching this movie for, it was this. There are some really fun cheesy and at points gory effects thrown at you. Transformations into beasts, skin falling off, a dead body flying through the window, etc. All of that good stuff. That’s what I paid $4 to see!

Pigeons.