5ive Girls

Years ago, Ron Perlman (who is a priest in this movie) was a teacher at a Catholic school. One very good Catholic girl was doing her schoolwork in a classroom, when suddenly and completely without explanation she was carried away by supernatural forces. Flash forward to the present. The school has been re-opened, and is being run by a wicked (yet really hot) headmistress. Ron Perlman is back as the priest, and five new girls are dumped in this place by their uncaring parents. All the girls have supernatural powers, they're also delinquents, and their parents are glad to be rid of them. As the story progresses, we start seeing the ghost of the girl who disappeared earlier, and of course the girls are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. A very satisfying amount of supernatural mayhem ensues.The good: Acting is excellent, the script is witty, and the mystery is solved in a very satisfying manner. It's a bit easy to figure out (even I figured it out before the secret was revealed), but the story isn't very predictable. There's lots of action, and even the special effects are quite good. Overall it's a great effort. Though the trailer for this movie makes it look steamy and sleazy, that's actually a fairly small part of what goes on. The movie is almost completely concerned with the story. Though you do get some girls in their undies, a spanking scene, and a topless scene. And lets not forget some lesbian kissing.The bad: The soundtrack. This is supposedly in 5.1, but it sounds like mono sent to the center and two front speakers. If you sit anywhere but precisely in front of your TV, it has the effect of making the whole soundtrack seem as if it's coming from either your right or left speaker. I listened to the whole movie through my right front speaker. That's just really bad. Also, the movie really seems to drag towards the last part of the middle portion. The finale is quite exciting, but about 3/4rs of the way through it seems that the mystery has been sufficiently explored and it's time to get on with the conclusion. But the middle part just goes on and on. I had to check the DVD case to make sure this movie wasn't 120 minutes long, but no, it's just 90 something.Overall, I'd recommend this to horror fans. It's certainly not a cheesy B-movie, but a polished and professional effort, only tarnished by the crappy soundtrack.

I am a sucker for religious/occult themed horror movies. When I read the description to this, I thought to myself that, even if it's half-decent, it should be worth purchasing.I'm usually pretty forgiving but, in this case, I was wrong.**** SPOILERS BELOW ****I did like how the imagery of a pentagon was repeated throughout the movie to emphasize the connection of the five girls. Their desks, their beds...even the crucifixes stuck in Father Drake's (Ron Perlman) chest. Plus, as I said, I thought the premise was interesting and had potential.Unfortunately, I thought the story fell short for many reasons. First, why was Father Drake so submissive to the headmistress? Sure, they alluded to how she pulled him from out of a bar but that wouldn't give her authority to remove him from his job. If it was a Catholic school, that would be the decision of the diocese...or, maybe this wasn't an "authorized" Catholic school. In that case, he shouldn't be referred to as "father" anymore...and if that WAS the case, the writers could at least spent a minute or two and worked that explanation in to the story somehow.Or maybe, the headmistress' power over Father Drake was the threat of going public with indiscretions alluded to with school girls. If so, it wasn't clear....just an annoying loose end.The first scene where Elizabeth is killed, assumed to be by the demon - what the heck was with that??? Read any book on screenplays - the first rule of movies is SHOW. Not tell. Not assume. Not allude to. Plus, Father Drake's reaction to what can only be assumed to be a grizzly death was extremely underwhelming yet a portent of the disappointmens to follow for the next 90 minutes.And that ending....yeesh. After going through battling a demon all night and seeing her friends die, Mara just walks out of the school when the caretaker comes in in the morning, making some glib statement and walks away? And how does the headmistress come back to life after what happened to her? And how does Mara react so nonchalantly to THAT?!?!****END OF SPOILERS****Normally, what could save a poorly plotted story full of holes is over-the-top gore. Lots and lots of fake blood and body parts. Nope. Not here. The writers/director/producers thought they were making the "Sense and Sensibility" of teen horror and subsequently believed that gore and violence was beneath them. They were spectacularly wrong on both accounts.So, based on the movie, I would have given the DVD three stars. To add salt in the wound, the producers added zip, zero, zilch, nada, nothing to this DVD as extras (save for some trailers for a couple other movies that I now intend to avoid). No commentary, no deleted scenes, no behind the scenes...nothing.This one is going to be traded in at the local used movie store. No redeeming value.

Wow!!!! A surprisingly good movie from beginning to end. I normally do not care for this kind of movie for 3 reasons: First: I do not like how they depict the Catholic church and Catholic all girls schools. Second: I do not like how they depict the girls who attend them. They usually depicts catholic schools girls as sex crazed, raunchy whores. Third: I do not like how they usually have a lot of sex in these movies (in this case it would normally be girl on girl in their uniforms, or even worse, with the Priest). This movie thankfully had none of that. It told a very good story and the girls were very likable, well at least after a short while, when their bad girl personas wore off and they showed themselves for who they really are. The only thing they should have worked on a bit better was not making it so blatantly obvious that she is the villain, they do redeem themselves with her little twist of a backstory. I do think the end of the movie is very sad, but I guess it had to be to make it a great movie. I would by all means watch this movie over and over again, which says a lot since I get bored quick.As for Amazon. this is the 2nd movie I have seen on your web page in several months. I stopped watching movies here because they were the worst of the worst out there. I could not find anything for the longest time that did not look like a high schoolers failing film project. Both the movies I watched tonight and last night were fantastic. I see a lot more movies on there I have not seen before and they look like they have promise. I hope you have stepped up your standards about what you choose to put on amazon Prime. If I start seeing the garbage and nothing but the garbage I saw before I will permanently end my subscription.

it was at a good price and was a pretty good film and the seller sent it as said, i was pretty hsppy :)

great horror film without too much gore but still worth watching

This film is laughable and just plain awful. I don't normally like to give spoilers but it's the best way and probably the only real way to tell you just how awful this is.Ok, so we have five girls, a blood-stained-pentagram, a third-floor, a Sadist-Head-Mistress and a Faithless-Fallen-Priest (hands up if you have already seen this movie before).Before the Faithless-Fallen-Priest was faithless and fallen, he was present when a demon named Legion tried, and failed, to possess a girl right there in his class-room. Apparently, this girl, was super-pure - holier than holy - whiter than white, and so; was in fact unpossessable (still; evil demons just have to try these things) and so, she vanished - just a spot of blood remained.Years later the school is re-opened as a reform school and in walk five girls. The Sadist-Head-Mistress has painted a pentagram on the floor where the blood of the holy-girl still remains. She plans to trade the five girls' souls in for the holy-girl whom at some point you will discover is her sister (I think?!).The third floor is off limits, the Sadist-Head-Mistress gets really ticked-off when a couple of girls go snooping around up there - so annoyed in-fact, she lashes one of the girls with a long wooden ruler right on the butt through her tidy-whites (oooh, a girl-on-girl spanking session! - think there will be time for some lesbianism a bit later on?). But guess what? All five girls are actually needed on the pentagram the next night so the Sadist-Head-Mistress can do a spell, lucky she didn't succeed in putting them right off snooping around then, isn't it?Oh, did I mention these five girls have special supernatural powers? Well, they have! The Sadist-Head-Mistress sought them out especially because of these powers. The girls' powers aren't actually needed for the 'trade-in' but they do come in handy for fighting-off evil demons called Legion.The Faithless-Fallen-Priest, that saw the girl vanish before, does not believe the girls when they each tell him something is "wrong". They even describe to him the image of the ghostly girl and correctly name her, but he says "it's impossible" - more fool him!This film clearly doesn't know what it's trying to be and so appears as an inferior counterfeit of more successful titles.

Very pleased with my purchase

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