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Adrienne Barbeau stars in this campy horror flick about dead nuns and the undead. The film opens with the legendary massacre at the St. Francis Boarding School for Girls. One night in 1960, a disgrunt... read more read more...led former student saunters into the school chapel and kills a bunch of nuns and a priest with a shotgun. The deranged student, young Christine (Oakley Stevenson), then douses the mother superior with gasoline and sets her on fire with the flick of a lit cigarette. Forty years later, the shuttered school is a popular haunt for drunken frat boys and pasty-faced goths. When the cops make their usual bust of trespassing revelers, black-bedecked Mo (Megahn Perry) sticks around, only to be kidnapped for a Satanic human sacrifice. The inept devil worshippers inadvertently call up a real live demon when they stab Mo. Most of the ersatz Satanists are either butchered or rendered evil ghouls. Fortunately, Clarissa (Joanna Canton), the obligatory "nice-girl" in the band, manages to flee the school and find refuge with Christine (Barbeau), who was recently released from a mental asylum. With some coaxing, Christine agrees to break out the armaments and fight against the demons. Rap star Coolio appears as a freaked-out cop in the film. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Directed by: Mike Mendez

Release Date: January 20, 2000

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DVD Release Date: December 11, 2001

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  • MidnightMadwoman
    June 24, 2008
    MidnightMadwoman
    This is one of the most terrible, cheesy and exploitative movies I have ever seen. I think I mistook it for something else when I rented it. It's about vampire-zombie things - that I guess are blacklight responsive- who eat people who visit them. And some Slappy the Squirrel-esqu... read moreewoman who has to rescue a bunch of teenagers from them. It has a real Evil Dead:The Musical feel to it, only a lot less fun. Funny, but you can do better bad movie-wise.
  • cacutshaw
    August 4, 2007
    cacutshaw
    One of my favourite STV movies of the 90s. I think this one could have easily done well had it been released in theaters. I've heard it described as a party movie and I'd be inclined to agree. Like Evil Dead mixed with Night of the Creeps this is a really fun and funny horror ... read morefilm (and this is coming from a guy who hates a lot of horror comedies).
  • jonnydaddy
    September 30, 2009
    jonnydaddy
    Funny low budget horror! Some really good cameo's like Bill Mosely and Adrienne Barbeau. A lot aof blood.
  • mrhaljam
    September 16, 2008
    mrhaljam
    A funhouse ride of a film, complete with day-glo blood and rubber prosthetics. A throwback to the likes of the 'Night of the Demons' series, but executed with hipness and style. I liked this a lot.

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Eric D. Snider
March 16, 2004
Eric D. Snider, eFilmCritic.com

Everything is played way over-the-top, using the traditional trappings of a teen horror flick, but using them so much they become satirical. Full Review

Joe Leydon
October 12, 2010
Joe Leydon, Variety

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Emanuel Levy
July 6, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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