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Originally Posted by keirarts  Attachment 164163 Satan's School for Girls. (1973)
A young girl is driving through southern California. Something has scared her real bad and she seems panicked. She makes her way to her sisters house and locks herself in. Unfortunately whatever it is that has scared her so bad has got in and when her sister Elizabeth, played by Pamela Franklin, discovers her hanging, apparently having committed suicide. Elizabeth refuses to believe her sister has killed herself so she enrols in her sisters school in Salem Massachusetts to find out what happened only to discover further suicides, and a group of witches called the five who worship satan!
Satan's school for Girls is a 1973 TV movie produced by Aaron spelling. It's relatively blood free. It's plot, dealing with a coven of witches operating from an all girls school pre-dates Suspiria (1977) and a sub plot about operant conditioning was later dealt with in greater detail by Strange behaviour. The film isn't one of the great classic TV movies but it does have a lot of the charm of 70's Tv movie of the week. It has some occasional interesting camera moves and shots and its tightly structured at under 80 minutes. It was memorable and popular enough to get remade back in 2000 with Shannen Doherty and Julie Benz. Its got a great cast, not only to we get Pamela Franklin but also Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd who would go on to star in Charlies Angels.
The Cheezy flicks disc looks ok. the print is real beat up and there's bugger all in the way of substantial extras but its worth checking out. |
As i was reading this i thought the remade version was
The Initiation of Sarah from 2006 starring Summer Glau and Morgan Fairchild as it sounds very familiar. It isn't however, so this is a pointless post really.
