Nightmare Sisters

Look, I actually love Nightmare Sisters for the opening minutes before our trio of babes turn hot...they are made up as geeky as you can possibly imagine, with lots of cornball humor that fits their act superbly. There's a moment I couldn't help but love where Quigley (wearing this wallflower dress and buck teeth) who questions why Bauer (who is costumed in fitness clothes although she's made up to look overweight, with this hideous hair do and head bandana) can watch horror movies, feeling they rott your brain. Why do I love it, she says aloud, "One stupid zombie picture was enough for me!" Return of the Living Dead fans will probably enjoy that quip more than others. Anyway, the trio are part of the Tri Etta Pi house (get it?), Brinke a history major (oh, she is so good at dork, Brinke could easily alternate between nerd and hot with relative ease, her character here loves to go to yard sales and load her sorority house up with junk she considers antiques, costumed mousy with these giant glasses and squeaky voice that is a treat), Bauer a president of the home economics class, and of course Quigley (always itching herself and speaking very expressively, using her eyes, hands, and body). These three would come right from the Mu's out of Revenge of the Nerds. Speaking of nerds, they invite three boys from a fraternity to party with them, but it is similar to the scene in Revenge of the Nerds before the geeks got stoned, really rather corny (looking at a family album, banging away at the keys of the piano, feeding face, etc.) and not altogether what constitutes as a prototypical night of beer-guzzling, sexual escapades, and general obnoxious behavior by young people. Frat jerks who want the nerds out of their fraternity will attempt to crash the party, encounter more than they could possibly imagine. The girls have a seance with their guests, involving the crystal ball possessed with demonic spirits. The spirits turn the girls into sultry vixens who prey on males, a night of terror in store for those believing they're scoring without consequences.

High titillation factor here as the nerds find their girls totally uninhibited, speaking in seductive voices, topless, and aiming to please. They are so in shock that they have  a hard time trying to gather their bearings as the girls offer them pie in the kitchen during quite a bizarre sequence, and then the girls wash up with a bubble bath. The frat jocks are spying from a window, more than willing to let the nerds bicker about what to do about their current situation in the kitchen, and go to get some lovin'. If you love seeing Linnea, Brinke, and Michelle taking a bath and soaping up for quite a length of time, then Nightmare Sisters will give you plenty of incentive to watch. So before long the frat jocks round up the hesistant-to-get-laid-frat-nerds, hide them away, and expect to be on the receiving end of some hot, sweaty sex. Let's just say that there's a little extra in store for these guys...

I have to say I was surprised hearing and seeing so much homo-phobic slurring and insults in a film directed by DeCoteau, but perhaps this was before his own sexuality was more realized. Whatever the case, that scene where the frat jocks ridicule the nerds for their homosexual activity--how it constitutes breaking the fraternity bi-laws laid out in their handbook--is a rather telling example of how homosexuality was once criticised and of particular use in belittling others.

That rock out by Linnea (Santa Monica Boulevard!!!) sure was random and kind of grinds the movie to a halt (but, really, this movie has no intentions of following a best laid plan in delivering a movie of anything serious, so either you just go with it or exit stage left), but by this point in the movie, after a seven-eight minute bubble bath with the girls, it is to expected.

A succubus  (or as she is referred, "Hideous Hag from Hell")is responsible for all the demonic shenanigans (in her real form, it's a puppet on a stick, almost as tacky as the hand puppet imp from Sorority Babes....), so the nerdy boys phone up a "rent-a-priest" (asking for time-and-a-half after midnight!) to help them battle the evil so it will leave the girls, but his exorcism has certain "hang ups" he wasn't expecting. When the girls, under the succubus' possession, have a guy, they "bite down", and the result is each man deteriorates relatively quickly into ash. Yeah.

The film is shot by DeCoteau in primarily one location, the sisters' sorority house, mostly the photography is claustraphobic and dark, not particularly stylish, and the budget is totally dimestore (and unlike more talented directors, it *looks* cheap). This film lives and dies on sexual innuendo (not that subtle, folks), eye candy, and dick humor. For the USA Up All Night crowd primarily, which includes me, because every once in a while I just want a movie that doesn't give a shit.

Ultimately, this will be considered a rather juvenile sex comedy parody of demonic possession movies, exploiting the Scream Queens' luscious naked flesh in order to amuse the target audience looking for masturbation material. While I certainly have mentioned often in the past that I am aroused by Quigley, this movie does give me the giggles when the girls are all disguised as dorks.

"You mean I'm holding a dead medium's ball?!?!"

"Let's get primitive."