Some part of the barrel Movie Reviews: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Something a little different today. Today's title is not a piece of
exploitation cinema, nor was it one the "video nasties" or some sort of dodgy
Italian piece - so it doesn't quite qualify for a Bottom of the Barrel Movie Review. Not sure where in the
barrel it fits in but fit in it does.
This one takes me back.
I remember the first time I laid eyes on the cover of this film, back as a young
12/13 year old cruising the horror section of the
local video store. Needless to say it interested me in a few ways...
It would be a few more years before I would get around to seeing it, both
because of that stupid R rating (which it totally did not deserve) on it and
because I had to wait until only one of the two guys I knew who worked there was
on shift. They both knew me but one would still ask me ID to rent R rated films
- what a prick! But I digress... Anyway, it was
probably better I had to wait since those several extra years gave me the
ability to better appreciate a film like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.
One sorority is having its initiation which involves spanking babe's butts and
spraying them (the babes, not their butts)with
whipped cream. Two nerds and a fat guy sneak into the house to watch, take in
the customary (for these sorts of horror films) shower
scene, and get busted. To finish off their initiation, two sorority babes must
go and break into the bowling alley of the local mall and steal a bowling trophy
and the three guys are ordered to go along.
So our nerds and babes break in to the bowling alley and run into the "tough
chick" who is already there robbing it of her own accord.
Anyway, a trophy gets stolen and dropped, and it unleashes a pimp
talking, wish granting imp who was imprisoned inside the trophy. He grants some
wishes which backfire on the person soon after granting, turns the head sorority
sister's offsiders into "demons of a sort.
Demonic stamina but without the spellcasting abilities", and generally behaves
like an evil little imp.
There is a whole back story as to how the imp came to be in the bowling trophy
but I will leave that to you to find out. I will say it is quite creative for a
film whose budget was probably in the tens of dollars, and the imp itself is not
a bad piece of puppetry.
I know how all it sounds but it the film does actually have a charm. There are some "great"
bits of stupid, over the top dialogue throughout the film that one can't help
but chuckle at, much like some the lame jokes the imp tells,
and when combined with your typical character stereotypes, huge helpings
of classic 80's cheese and the fact the film never
takes itself too seriously and is played strictly for laughs,
it really all does go to make this a great film to watch with your mates... and beer. Lots
of beer wouldn't hurt your enjoyment of it either.
If you like your cheesy 80's horror movies, you could certainly do worse than this
one.
Has there been another horror film that has so wonderfully brought together nudity and bowling?
© by Tiberius Alatheus 2008