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Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death
USA 1991
produced by David DeCoteau (executive) for Trustinus Productions
directed by Todd Sheets
starring Kelly Hodges, Lisa Krueger, Holly Starr, Laura Fuhrman, Craig Wilcox, Jenny Admine, Veronica Orr, J.T. Taube, Matthew Lewis, Liz Marchicello, Charles Monroe, Emmet Brennen, Carol Barta, Dave Patterson, Tom Johnson, Michelle Barragan, Susan Isaacks, April McGouphlan
written by Roger Williams (II) (= Todd Sheets), music by Enochian Key, special effects by Dana Cheney/Fantasy Creations
review by Mike Haberfelner
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One day, teenage Tiffany (Kelly Hodges) buys a crystal ball at an
antiques store, and she and her friends use it in a seance - and all pass
out. They come to soon afterwards, all but Beverly (Lisa Krueger), and
when she comes to, she starts acting a little peculiar. Later, Tiffany,
Beverly, their female roommates and two guys, who are just along for the
ride let themselves lock into a supposedly haunted house as some kind of
initiation rite into a sorority ... and once in the haunted house, Beverly
starts killing people. Eventually, the others manage to knock Beverly out,
but by now the demon that has possessed her, has hopped over to Tiffany,
and now she starts acting lethal - then though the owner of the antiques
shop stops by, tells the others, the crystal ball actually belonged to his
mother, a witch, who caught a demon in the ball, and now he as to catch
the demon again ... and he succeeds. The crystal ball though is soon
sold again ... Bad lighting, atrocious sound,
bottom-of-the-barrel special effects, underqualified actors, uninteresting
sets - yep, we are in shot-on-viceo no-budget land. And add to that
outfits and hairdoes that are 1980's leftovers (after all, in 1991 tghe
80's weren't over for long), and you can pretty much imagine what this
film looks like ... but none of that is the real problem of the film, the
real problem is its ill-conceived script that spends way too much time
with setting the whole feeble story up - including wasting several minutes
on the most unerotic depiction of students playing twister you have ever
seen and a few horrible dance scenes - to then bring it to an unsatisfying
solution and one of these the-horror-lives-on endings that is dragged out
endlessly. Add to this a very uninspired directorial effort that pads the
film out with establishing shot after establishing shot even if the
location hasn't changed in the slightest, and a serious lack of humour in
a film that would at least have made a mediocre comedy ... and you have a
pretty bad film. Not recommended.
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