Horror films come in all shapes and sizes with alot of them being big screen releases that become mainstream. However the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today is the exact opposite as this is a film that really is pretty much a direct to VHS movie and really is the very definition of a cult film and so then join me as in review the film that ring three iconic horror actors together in one film with the film in question being called simply just "Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when a group of teen break into a bowling ally to try and steal a trophy they find themselves in for the fight for their lives they accidentally unleash and evil imp from one of the trophies. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad which is something that's to be expected as this film was made on a really small budget and is basically a direct to VHS movie and those typically don't have good plots to them with this films plot being as good as it was ever going to be given the fact that the script was written in just ten days and only had one draft written which is something that might explain why this films plot is a bit all over the place and isn't that well focused as the plot of the film does disappear for large portions of the film which does make it hard to tell just what the plot of the film is meant to be alot of the time with this not really being helped by the fact that this plot isn't that strong of a plot both of which are things that could have been fixed if there were more rewrites to the script as that would then allow for the plot of the film to be alot more focused and for it to be alot more stronger of a plot but on the flip side of that is this films plot is wonderfully cheesy and campy and over the top which is something that does add to the overall cult like nature of the film with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is horror legend Linnea Quigley as Spider , Andras Jones as Calvin and Robin Rochelle as Barbara "Babs" Peterson. Also starring in this film is Carla Baron as Frankie , Kathi O'Brecht as Rhonda , John Stuart Wildman as Keith , Hal Havins as Jimmie , Brinke Stevens as Taffy , Michelle Bauer as Lisa , Dukey Flyswatter as the voice of Uncle Impie and George "Buck" Flower as The Janitor.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films acting being as good as it was ever going to be as nobody would have expected this film to have good or even great acting in it due to it's title alone but that's exactly what we get in this film with this films actors turning in the best possible performance that they could have done given the plot of the film and he fact that this film was filmed in a whopping twelve days which means that there's pretty much to time to do a take two and that is something that does really show through in the film as alot of the acting in this film does feel like the kind of acting that you'd see in the first take of any movie and while this films actors do the best job that they could have done with the material that was handed to them this films acting would have been greatly improved if they were given the time to do a take two as then the actors would be able to turn in some more better performances with the best actor in this film being Linnea Quigley as while all of the films actors know full well that there in a bad film she seems to be one of the few actors in the film that are actually trying to turn in a better then OK performance whilst also quite clearly having the time of her life being in this film with the acing that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
This film does fair a little bit better when it comes to there characters as the films characters are somewhat memorable but not for the right reasons tho. As while the characters are decently well done there still one dimensional characters only now it's pushed to the extreme which does make these characters laughable like take for example Spider all we really know about her as a character is that she's the films touch girl character and that's it and it's something that the film takes great pride in showing us every single time that she's on screen to the point where that becomes her sole personality and it's the same thing for all of the films characters where they all get one personality trait which the film then pushes so far to the extreme that it makes these characters feel more like cartoon characters due to the fact that we get to find out literally nothing else about of this films characters which to be does make these characters somewhat memorable but it's not in the way that you'd want them to be as while yes granted you do find yourselves routing for the characters that your supposed to like and hating the characters that your supposed to hate you do also find yourself laughing at the characters alot more then you cheering for them which is something that does add to this films more cult like nature and it is something that does make what could have been seen as being a really bad film now come across as being a film that's still bad but it's also pretty enjoyable due to how bad that pretty much everything in the film as there is clear effort gone into making this film and it is something that does shine through in the final cut of the film but at the same time tho none of that effort went into making this films characters memorable in the way that you'd want them to be memorable.
As was mentioned at the very start of this review this film did become a cult hit and it's not that hard to see why. As everything about this film from the choice of it's main actors to even it's title does scream cult film and to this films credit it does fully know that it's not going to be a hit film and therefor does have alot more fun with itself because of it with even the characters as one dimensional as they are in the film are still some pretty characters that have some pretty fun and more often then not funny scenes and while you can quite tell that the actors in this film are never in the same shot as The Imp despite them being in the exact same scene it is something that whilst it does make the film look cheap it does also add to the overall cult like nature of the film with this film even being such a cult hit that it spawned a knock off film in 1991 called Sorority Babes In The Dance-A-Thon of Death and just a few shorts years ago spawned a sequel called Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 which is something that the film might not have been able to do if it was the more traditional hit film but due to the fact that this film is nothing more then a campy film with a title that does make it clear as day that this was never going to be a hit film the film was able to find it's own audience with it being that audience that helped to make it the cult film that it is today with this being something that does go to show you that you don't need to be a good film to be remembered as sometimes all you need is a stupid title and a stupid plot and that's something that this film does have with the title of the film even making it standout among all of the other direct to VHS horror movies out there just due to how eye catching that the title alone really is.
Out of this film and Nightmare Sisters it's fair to say that whilst Nightmare Sisters was the better overall film this one was the one that was most fun film to watch. As you can tell right from the very start of this movie that this films writer and director David DeCoteau knew that he was making a film that was going to be fun and therefor he just went nuts with the film with him making a film that whilst it's not as good as Nightmare Sisters is this one is still that's fun to watch due to the fact that it does look like that everybody else is on the joke with that being something that does make the film all the more fun to watch with everyone who was making this film quite clearly having a blast with it so much so that all three leading ladies returned for the sequel with really the only thing that's really letting this film down being the fact that it doesn't take fully advantage of it's bowling alley setting as we barely get to see much of the bowling alley itself and when we do get to see it it's usually just the stuff that you'd usually see and nothing behind the scenes which makes having a horror film be set mostly in a bowling alley all the more pointless as that does limit the kind of creative kills that you could do with these characters given it's unique setup and villain but at the same time tho given that they could only afford to film at the bowling alley at night and that's really it that might have been the reason as to why we only really saw the bowling lanes and not much else as the rest of it might have been locked up but it is something that does make you wonder what the makers of this film would have done if they did get back to wear the pins are loaded for example or if they did go behind the scenes of the bowling alley instead of them going behind the scenes of the mall that the bowling alley is housed in which is still a great idea but at the same time you do still want to see more of the titular bowl-o-rama and not the building that's being housed in.
Given the title of this film this film is of a course a horror comedy with the makers of this film actually putting just as much effort into the horror aspect of the film then they did the comedy aspect of the film. It's just a shame then that the films comedy isn't that good with the film having jokes that you can see coming a mile away with the only somewhat decent joke being the slight running gag that the film has early on where these three girls just keep on knocking this poor Janitor into the same room all without each of them seeing the other which is a good little running joke and was one that could have carried on all throughout the film however tho the film for no apparent reason drops that joke in favor of the Janitor being kind of a death person who just winds up annoying Spider alot of the time as he comes to the same conclusion that she's been trying to tell him for a good while which don't get me wrong is a decent joke but it's not as good as the previous running joke with the same character was as at least with that joke you could pass it from character to character and it would still feel fresh and different but here because of the fact that the makers of this film stuck him with the only capable character in the film there kind of running joke is one that does start to get old realm fast even more so when you realise that the running joke with Spider and the Janitor gets in the way of Spider's pudding relationship with Calvin and it's like that with alot of the films jokes with the films jokes at best being OK to average jokes but nothing special and at worst being just downright unfunny but to this films credit they did know to keep it fairly balanced and didn't really lean to far into either aspect which given this films title is something that they very easily could have done.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and forty two seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have with the film even having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while yes this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely by not developing ether it's plot or it's characters this is the kind of the film that really doesn't need either of those things for it to work in the first place as this film is nothing more that a trashy horror comedy that knows exactly what it is and that's a bad movie which to be fair is sometimes just all you want from a movie as while yes it would have helped this film out quite alot if it did have a more developed plot as that would make the plot of the film all the more interesting then what it already is and if the films characters were more developed as that would not only make them more interesting as characters but it would also give us the audience more of a reason to route for these characters outside of the basic one of them is the good guy and the other's the bad guy this is the type of the film that really doesn't require any of that and to this films credit it does work on it's own merit as while yes granted this film is a trashy horror comedy it's also a fun and campy movie that knows exactly what it is and really isn't afraid of being the kind of bad movie that it already knows that it is which is something that dies make this film all the more to watch because of it but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now the as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. However tho this is a bad thing as the films kills just aren't that good either with alot of them being rather plain and boring to watch with none of them really taking as full advantage of the films supernatural aspect as they really could have done which is something that could come down to one of two things the first one being the fact that The Imp is stop motion animated and therefor really can't do all that much in the first place and the second might just be the fact that this film most likely had a really small budget in the first place and therefor the films kills can't be as good as they perhaps would have been should the film have had a much more larger budget in the first place either way it is something that does prevent all of this films kills from being good or memorable with the film not even having a single good kill in it as while alot of the films are indeed creative and fun to watch in the film as there all lacking that extra special something that makes them good in the first place with the only thing that would have made any of this films kills better was if the film actually took full advantage of it's supernatural aspect by having The Imp himself actually be the one to kill people and not have him control two or three girls and have them kill them for him which while it's a solid idea it is one that does hold the films kills back from being as good as they really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall it really hard to fully judge this film s while yes it is a really bad film no one will ever deny that but it's also a film that's so bad that it's good with the things that make it bad also being the things that make it fun to watch in the first place with this film being a really campy film that knows that's bad film and really isn't afraid to be exactly that which does also help to make the film fun to watch as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in tis very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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