Scarecrow-88
Terrible comedy about a teenage girl, Maggie(Liane Curtis)whose body is taken over by the Devil; her friends' souls are hanging in the balance. Chaser(Dana Ashbrook; WAXWORK), assigned by God to kill Satan, is the group's only hope. Lezlie Deane(FREDDIE'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE)will join forces with Chaser in helping save her friends from eternal damnation. The Devil uses Maggie's body for sexual purposes, and the guys of the group who she seduces have their "souls sucked" during intercourse. Maggie, possessed against her will, also has powers at her disposal so her friends are in a whole heap of trouble(bodies are levitated in mid air, can be controlled to do sinful things, etc). Ashbrook, and the rest of the cast, seem to be having fun with the material(especially Curtis as the girl possessed by the Devil), as Satan causes all sorts of mischief and mayhem. Ashbrook has problems with his teleporting device, a tool which sends him to alternate planets and dimensions. The entertainment value of such a movie as this depends on whether or not you find the material funny. If you enjoy the characters, the performances of the actors involved, and what comes out of their mouths, maybe silly junk like this might have some appeal..there are plenty of jabs at Christians and the usual sexual jokes. If you enjoy seeing women slug guys in the face and vice versa, this could tickle your funnybone, like one such scene where Ashbrook punches a possessed Maggie out of a window and off of the roof to the ground below numerous times(or where one victim is reduced to the size of a gold fish and put in a bowl of water for boinking Maggie over the head with a bible). I think many will know Curtis from SIXTEEN CANDLES. This is probably a bit funnier if one is intoxicated or stoned.
gridoon
The Devil, in the form of a glowing fireball, enters the body of a shy young girl and turns her into a nasty shrew who seduces men and then sucks out their souls, leaving them as skeletons. Luckily (?) the "Chaser", a devil hunter who's been following his target through time and space, arrives at the house where all this takes place and teams up with the girlfriend of one of the victims to stop the Devil and save everyone's souls. This irreverent but largely one-joke comedy (good girl becomes bad girl) starts out as a likable film, but quickly becomes shrill and tiresome. And frankly, I found the running gag of women constantly punching and kicking men about as funny as the reverse gag, of men constantly punching and kicking women, would have been - which is to say, not very. Go see the similarly titled but much better "Highway To Hell" instead. (*1/2)
marvinman69
this movie has always made me laugh out loud. i make all my friends watch it. some people might not enjoy it but i say anything that has nuns with guns in it is a riot. i own the vhs copy and hope that there will be a dvd version soon i have already wore out my vhs copy from watching it so much.
overkill-6
...which is that if "nothing interesting happens in the first fifteen minutes, forget it." And this movie unfortunately, is slow, ponderous, and incredibly plodding right up until the Devil possesses former wallflower Maggie and turns her into...well, what you'd expect in any female incarnation of the Devil NOT being played by Linda Blair. Wild 80's hairstyle and all. Even if it's a 1990 film. Sure, it's a dumb movie...over-acted, weird script, dumb plot, but...once Maggie becomes "The Devil" and the "Chaser" (who not only has some great one-liners ["Yeah, I met God. He's a lot shorter in person."] and also has the great running joke of his trenchcoat that seems to have at least one of everything in it somewhere...blow-up doll, six-pack of beer, roll of toilet paper, who knows what else...) starts coming after her, it turns out to be pretty darn funny. While the "Franks and Beans" joke is pretty lame and badly set up, what immediately follows (the "Rambo Nuns") is a riot. Not worth killing yourself to get a copy of, but worth a look if you're in a weird mood.
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