5/10
The Halfway House
4 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Larissa(Janet Tracy Keijser, who has a smokin' body)is looking for her missing sister who went out jogging one day and got fed to something in a basement thanks to a demented handyman who kidnapped her. She calls on Sgt. Dick Sheen(Shawn Savage)to assist her in going undercover within a Catholic half way house for troubled girls ran with an iron fist by evil nun, Sister Cecelia(Mary Woronov). Father Fogerty(Joseph Tatner)loves to paddle his girls who misbehave while Larissa(who is snooping for possible leads regarding not only her own missing sister but other girls as well)finds porno mags and a sex doll in his office cabinet. She also helps out a quiet, sad lesbian, "Cherry Pie" Polowski(Stephanie Leighs)who lost her tough sista lover to the same monster that ate Larissa's sister, who gets picked on by a group of nasty girls who blame her for losing privileges. Through some sources, Dick finds out that Sister Cecilia was gang-raped and sought help in a mental health facility. Also, Cecilia went to Miskatonic University and working there was none other than the handyman, Lutkus(Cleve Hall)who now is employed at the half way house, often peeping at the girls taking showers. Once they left Miskatonic, a rare book from the university library disappeared..the book of mystic spells, THE NECRONOMICON. Thanks to the book, Cecilia has summoned a demon monster she's feeding the missing girls to for preparation of destroying the male race. Cecilia also plans to to have a child with the monster! Thanks to her sicko handyman who rounds her up meat for the monster, Cecilia's plan seems to be about finalized, will Larissa be able to stop her before it's too late?

Sordid, sacrilegious, perverse..this flick is perfect for the Midnight Movie Crowd. The flick pokes fun with Catholicism as much as it can and serves up lots of female nudity and sexual situations. Hinted at in dialogue and off-screen action, Larissa and Cherry Pie have a growing lesbian relationship brewing..we just don't get welcomed to it because this little development isn't visible to us. The monster is crap, but I think it's looking extremely fake was intentional. The film isn't nothing to write home about, but Woronov is as fun as always in an unusual part. There's no budget to speak of, so the flick shows as much lurid antics as possible. The female cast are uninhibited which might appeal to fans of 80's slashers before the pop, WB PG-13 era of horror flicks began to rise up taking center stage in the late 90's and on.
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