David O'Connell
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
September 12th 2008 12:37
With a title like "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama", there's little doubt about the quality of the movie. This is a terribly filmed, poorly acted hack that masquerades as a horror film and aspires to be trash.
Yet for this week's Filthy Friday selection, it's a perfect end to a rough week that made me want to pack it in early. I've got a pile of DVDs to review on my desk but there's a certain amount of glee starting up a movie that is guaranteed to be trashy horror, with streaks of exploitation.
And it starts! A sorority is having their initiation, with two girls being initiated with spankings, whipped cream and unlocked showers. It's ludicrous right off the bat, and things are in no danger of sobering up.
Luckily, there are three nerds that walk into the house, uninvited, to have a little peek and the spanking and showering. I can't blame them for their natural curiosity, but the movie starts to lose coherence at this point, as the nerds and the initiates are sent to a bowling alley to steal a trophy, which cracks open and releases a hateful little imp, bent on causing havoc and chaos among the students.
"Sorority Babes" is poorly regarded on many levels, but is loved by a core group of B-movie fans, who adore the casting of the movie, featuring three prominent scream queens: Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, and Michelle Bauer, three actresses that get into all sorts of trouble, bare some skin, and produce some of the worst written and delivered lines in the movie.
This is an awful movie, yet one that's so deliciously entertaining that it threatens to delight at every step. It's a movie made in absolute drunkenness, and it feels like it, every step of the way. And, yes, there really is a paddling scene:
"Sorority Babes in the Slimball Bowl-O-Rama" should have been a rejected script, considered to be too degrading, too ridiculous to spend money on - luckily, that bit of common sense was strung up and quartered, leaving this movie as a fine example of bad movies gone badder, but held up by a niche audience of B-movie fans. A totally enjoyable movie, with a sense of perverse glee that carries it to its predictably lunatic conclusion.
I say: Fans of B-movies and trash will love this, as it checks all the boxes... college sorority, demonic imps, senseless exhibitionism and a-murderin'.
See it for: One of the wishes that the imp grants, is phenomenal. I suspect it is the entire reason that the movie was produced.
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Um ....
Yeah, great title.
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Plus, the title. Ha!
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