martedì 14 agosto 2018

The sisterhood - 2004

A terrible movie, really terrible. It has pretty girls well dressed that from time to time undress (not totally, they spend a lot of time in bra and panties) and kiss other girls, if that can interest anybody that’s all there is to it. Terrible, I say. No story, no acting, no suspense, no horror, no plot. 
The writing is bad too of course, in this movie the idea of a good girl or a good boy is someone who only thinks of studying and waits to be married to have sex, and the idea of evil and ‘dark side’ is apparently girls kissing other girls. Until the last part of the movie that’s all that happens.
Christine is the good student, the virgin who doesn’t want to party and who has special psychic abilities. A professor (Barbara Crampton) asks her to help her stop the Bat club, a sorority on campus, telling her that something evil goes on there and that the leader corrupts young souls. She asks Christine to join and to work from within to help her stop them. 
Because of their powers Christine is soon invited to become one of the Bats and she makes them take her roommate Regan because she had her heart on it. For a while the only things they do is having parties and kissing each other and then calling themselves sisters... :-/ it kinds seemed that their idea of bad girls was strongly linked to women-on-women action... they did nothing more than that and wearing cool black dresses, nothing sinister at all. Christine starts enjoying the sisterhood, although she says she’s a virgin which doesn’t go well with all the rest. 
The prof keeps telling her to be careful (she’s not), to wear a necklace with a cross all the time (she doesn’t even notice when two girls take it off before the three of them go into bed), and to resist all their temptations... sure keep telling her that. Christine replies that maybe they’re not evil at all, but next thing you know the leader Devon for some reason chooses Josh, the virgin, the good student who never misses class, and has him now in her power. Christine is upset (jealous) that he has sex with her and that he stops going to class because he only thinks about her now. All of a sudden Christine thinks Devon is evil :-/ 
The prof tells her, only now, that Devon has been doing it for years, centuries maybe, that she killed both her father and Christine’s parents, and now they’ve been given another chance at stopping her.
Christine and Devon ‘dance’ with two guys until Josh comes and they tie him up and kiss him instead, and Christine seems at it for real :-/ Next thing you know we are at the initiation scene, when Devon speaks to the girls about to be initiated: Christine and Regan: “Enter into the darkness”, which is not very subtle, she’s quite clear about it. Regan sits into a casket then Devon bites her because she’s a vampire and now Regan is reborn with light in her eyes, “belonging to the darkness”. When it is Christine’s turn the prof shows herself as one of the two women with a hood (why she didn’t stop the other girl then, she wasn’t important?) and she screams at Devon. Devon promises Christine immortality (more than once, that’s her strong point, and yet she’s the only one who seems to be immortal) and she calls the prof vampire-hunter. Christine chants her lines and the prof sticks a wooden stake in her chest. Now that she’s been defeated the prof leaves the school, Josh is back to his normal life, papers report that a girl is missing, and Christine seems not to care for Josh anymore and she sticks to the Bats as her sisters, even without Devon, saying it’s their time now, but the last image of the movie is Devon inside her grave taking the stake out of her chest.
That is all, but watching it is even more boring than reading it. It was terrible, the only good things were the clothes and the shoes that they always kept on, even the first one we saw running away in her underwear, she wanted to be quiet and yet kept running on heels. 


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