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The name says it all. This might be my favorite movie title I've ever read, like my favorite album title: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. But the two are of freakishly different leagues. I mean, what can you expect from a David DeCoteau B-movie? However, it should be said that I found this to be one of his better ones.
Our appropriately-named B-movie is about a bunch of frat boys who get captured by a bunch of sorority girls when the three bozos break in an peek in the shower. They are forced to comply with two girls' final sorority entrance exam: go to the local bowling alley in the middle of the night and steal something from it. But when they go after the trophy and cross paths with an actual thief, they drop it and it opens up, revealing a wish-granting imp who wants to have some nasty fun.
OK, so like I've said in other reviews, I am NOT into frat humor, and I usually need something unique in a movie to enjoy it. Example: Monster University uses the concept of teaching scares to progress its otherwise done before plot. This, however, made a genre switch halfway and went from sorority girl comedy to another version Evil Toons or Evil Bong.
The specific horror pertaining to the school comedy is basically just more frat stuff. Sex wars, hazing, evil plots which soon go horribly wrong, etc. And when the horror kicks in, our imp is just too cartoonish to enjoy, and his Wishmaster style evil is just so hammy and predictable in turn. The wishes are turned against each person in ways that, lo and behold, torture and kill them. The movie compensates the lack of scares or humor with boobs.
However, the awkwardness of these nerds clashing with these "babes" provides a more realistic character dynamic than the average Full Moon Feature, which is likely the reason this is considered a cult classic. The fact that our biggest nerd of the group is building a relationship with our badass thief throughout the horror half also makes things a little more humorous.
Sorority Babes doesn't really utilize what made it that unique, so it doesn't live up to its potential at all. However, character dynamics between our main cast still help the movie, even when the genre switch kicks in and the scares and humor don't do much. But the movie is cheesy as hell, so that really helps make this movie much more watchable.
= 38/100
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
(1988) - Directed by David DeCoteau
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School Comedy / Supernatural Horror / Horror-Comedy
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Prom queen on the loose. Or is it high school hookers?."
(1988) - Directed by David DeCoteau
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School Comedy / Supernatural Horror / Horror-Comedy
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Prom queen on the loose. Or is it high school hookers?."
The name says it all. This might be my favorite movie title I've ever read, like my favorite album title: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. But the two are of freakishly different leagues. I mean, what can you expect from a David DeCoteau B-movie? However, it should be said that I found this to be one of his better ones.
Our appropriately-named B-movie is about a bunch of frat boys who get captured by a bunch of sorority girls when the three bozos break in an peek in the shower. They are forced to comply with two girls' final sorority entrance exam: go to the local bowling alley in the middle of the night and steal something from it. But when they go after the trophy and cross paths with an actual thief, they drop it and it opens up, revealing a wish-granting imp who wants to have some nasty fun.
OK, so like I've said in other reviews, I am NOT into frat humor, and I usually need something unique in a movie to enjoy it. Example: Monster University uses the concept of teaching scares to progress its otherwise done before plot. This, however, made a genre switch halfway and went from sorority girl comedy to another version Evil Toons or Evil Bong.
The specific horror pertaining to the school comedy is basically just more frat stuff. Sex wars, hazing, evil plots which soon go horribly wrong, etc. And when the horror kicks in, our imp is just too cartoonish to enjoy, and his Wishmaster style evil is just so hammy and predictable in turn. The wishes are turned against each person in ways that, lo and behold, torture and kill them. The movie compensates the lack of scares or humor with boobs.
However, the awkwardness of these nerds clashing with these "babes" provides a more realistic character dynamic than the average Full Moon Feature, which is likely the reason this is considered a cult classic. The fact that our biggest nerd of the group is building a relationship with our badass thief throughout the horror half also makes things a little more humorous.
Sorority Babes doesn't really utilize what made it that unique, so it doesn't live up to its potential at all. However, character dynamics between our main cast still help the movie, even when the genre switch kicks in and the scares and humor don't do much. But the movie is cheesy as hell, so that really helps make this movie much more watchable.
= 38/100