5ive Girls

I was watching a little bit of 5IVE GIRLS on Chiller channel late Friday night(May 21, 2010). I had seen it in it's entirety as it alternated on my satellite's Showtime channels. I thought it had a rather shit plot with blah special effects, but I was glued to the girls in the movie.

They are Catholic school girls sent to the church as punishment for their various sins by their parents or as a result of having no other place to go. They have the misfortune of being under the charge of headmistress Pearce(Amy Ciupak Lalonde) . She had a sister and wishes to bring her back from the dead. She also has the dirty little secret Ron Perlman's priest wishes to remain buried, and keeps him under her control because of it. Witchcraft is involved and Pearce is willing to do whatever it takes to have her sister back.



Perlman is really neutered because as much as he'd like to help the girls, they are subject to their headmistress' rule and yet is powerless to stop her. I think Perlman is always watchable, and as hard as it is to accept him in the role of a priest, I think his part is the most interesting. He's a victim of his sins as well, someone who made mistakes, yet his faith seems to be his only strength against unparalleled evil. Lust is his weakness. Hell, all those pretty girls in their Catholic dresses, it's easy to see why he submits to his desires instead of what he was commissioned by the Lord to do, save souls from the torments of hell.

How the girls are a victim of a demonic force which moves from each one of them and having to find a way to stop is the essence of the plot. Legion has become a favorite demonic allegiance filmmakers use as a device of evil in religious horror movies involving Catholicism. The girls all have special abilities they attempt to use to fight Legion, but practically everyone in 5IVE GIRLS dies.



An eye candy movie with meh CGI are my thoughts for it. Amy Ciupak Lalone as the headmistress and Jennifer Miller as our heroine, Alex, definately caught my attention throughout even if the rest of the movie did nothing for me. We do get an effective use of the cross and how it is used to stab a victim's face. Jordan Madley is Mara, a lesbian who has a crush on Alex and gives her a smooch when it appears their lives are in peril. As you have seen before(going back to say Hammer's The Devil's Bride with Christopher Lee), the girls attempt to draw a circle of resistance against Legion which goes awry. I so wish the filmmakers would've explored the dynamics of Mara and Alex, but I'm guessing it wasn't on the agenda. 5IVE GIRLS teases, boy, does it toy with you. Ultimately, director Warren P Sonoda cares more for the supernatural battle than the possible titilation that had potential. Okay, I admit that I was hoping for more girls in showers, which shows that I'm a douchebag pervert, but Sonoda sure casts a pretty collection of lovelies he puts through the ringer. Lalone smolders even under a suit and her body check of the girls as she prepares them for the school had me certainly attentive..watch as she takes her time, phew.