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5/10
Better Than I Expected.
Space_Mafune13 September 2006
Members of an exclusive college sorority (where sadomasochism seems to rule the day) seek twisted new ways to humiliate a new pledge named Leslie Perkins (Veronica Carothers), who they feel will never, ever fit in since she's something of a nerd and a prude. However the Devil (as played by the one and only Robert Vaughn who struggles to maintain his dignity here) has other plans and helps transform Leslie into a bodacious babe smokin' as all Hell. Only why is the Devil helping Leslie? You just got to know he has ulterior motives in mind.

I went into this film with very low expectations. I had read and heard little positive about it online and elsewhere so I really didn't expect it to be all that good at all. Well, it proved better than I expected. For one thing, I felt the cast did a remarkable job. Despite nearly all the women having to go through the film in various states of undress (not that I'm complaining when the women look as good as they do in this film), they all seem to be particularly well-cast and each girl somehow manages to establish her own unique character within the frame of the story. Priscilla Barnes, Michelle Bauer, Suzanne Ager, Ruth Collins and Veronica Carothers each deserve credit for being far more entertaining and capable at slapstick comedy that I for one ever expected them to be able to pull off, especially Barnes. The movie is all in all a basic frat comedy spoof only with horror and fantasy elements thrown into the mix including of course Robert Vaughn's Devil character and a monster on the loose. It's not all that far removed from the Beach Party Horror movie spoofs (think GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI) of the 60s only there's loads more nudity on display here and a bit more palpable level of Horror and the spoof here seems to be based more squarely on the frat comedies of the 1980s.
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3/10
Near the start of Fred's long, steady decline
movieman_kev12 March 2005
Three evil sorority girls pledge a nerdy pledge into the Devil (in the form of Robert Vaughn) offers to turn her into a hot babe. And then the den mother (Three's Company's Priscilla Barnes) shows up and all hell breaks lose. Well OK, not ALL hell, but as much as this low-budget film could afford, which isn't much. Supposedly a comedy, but the laughs are few and far between. This movie was during the start of Fred Olen Ray's decline that started during the start of the '90s and gradually got worse and worse. Yes dear reader, they get worse than this one...MUCH worse.

My Grade:C-

DVD Extras: Commentary by Fred Olen Ray; Stills gallery; and Theatrical Trailer

Eye Candy: Suzanne Ager, Michelle Bauer, Veronica Carothers, and Ruth Collins all show ample flash
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Fred Olen Ray--American Treasure
exoticafan11 March 2003
If you are looking for intellectual stimulation from a film, look elsewhere. If you are looking for a movie that is plain FUN, look no further. Witch's Academy is a wicked romp with bountiful babes, inspired slapstick, and an exaggerated script that would fit in well with Li'l Annie Fannie strips published in Playboy during the 60s and 70s.

A notorious sorority known for S&M and Bondage (the "witch" connection is never established), is compelled to humiliate a new pledge who is honest and faithful (and a dweeb). Unknown to the sisters, The Devil has plans for her and her evil compatriots. Much of the fun is seeing each of the leads in various enticing outfits and in various stages of dress and undress (a HEAVILY edited version was shown on USA). The presence of cult icon Robert Vaughn is an asset, and shows that he has the gift of comedic timing. If you have not seen the Retromedia DVD, you have NOT really seen this film. There are worthwhile extras on the DVD...but the "Stills" section features several shots of another cult icon, cinematographer/director Gary Graver, whose name appears nowhere on the credits?!

Fred is a master of supplying the most on a limited budget. He has his roots in fandom, and knows what his audience wants.
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1/10
Horrible
BandSAboutMovies5 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Did you watch Evil Toons and say, "I want a movie somehow even worse than this without Madison Stone to make up for the abject boredom that I felt while watching it?"

Good news! Or, well, horrible news.

Mark Thomas McGee, who wrote Equinox, wrote this for director Fred Olen Rey. It has Ruth Collins - yes, Bubbles from Firehouse and Tina from Doom Asylum - in it, as well as Veronica Carothers (who played two different roles in Vice Academy 3 and 4), scream queen Michelle Bauer and Priscilla Barnes, who was once Felix Leiter's dead wife in Licence to Kill. You may know her from getting killed in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects. Or maybe you remember her more fondly - and more alive - as Nurse Terri who replaced Suzanne Sommers on Three's Company. And oh hell, let's thrown in Suzanna Agar (Shock 'Em Dead, Evil Toons).

Playing Satan? Robert Vaughn who, as we all know, deserves better. So did Gary Graver, who shot this a decade after Orson Welles died and so did his dream of making a completed movie with him.

If you want to watch women paddle one another and somehow see what should be something every red blooded American boy - and hey girls too, the world is robust and filled with all manner of people and we love them all - should adore rendered into sheer boredom, then by all means, seek out this fecund steaming pile of trash.
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1/10
Worst. Film. Ever.
onona10 August 2005
This film is, without a doubt, the worst film in the history of the universe. Stay away from it, unless you want to be bored to the brink of death, and possible insanity.

How it is that someone could actually approve this script, shoot the film, edit it and then still have the audacity to think that anyone would actually enjoy it is really far beyond my own capacity to comprehend.

The only films that can come quite close to reaching the awful depths that this film managed to plow are The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D and The Rollerblade Seven.
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2/10
The worst acting I've ever seen!
iamawarrior-7900722 October 2022
If you value your time like most of is do then save yourself the trouble! There are way too many other better films with quality performers and better screenwriters to watch this garbage! The cast was poorly chosen as well! One actor in particular is, Ruth Collins, she seems to play a lot of the same roles of that "dumb blonde" character role in most all of her films! Even though she doesn't have many credits to her name she came and went out of the acting business as quickly as she came in! Probably a good thing for all of us! A talented actor would have stayed much longer, but hey, let's face it, she didn't have what it takes to stay as a professional actress, producer or director as she lists in her profile! What a sad shame her film credits are all of the same type of film and not of any quality! All the film ratings reflect as much.
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2/10
Really bad!!
Sergiodave22 December 2021
Definitely not the worst film ever, unless you're new to movies, but very, very bad. The acting, script, direction, even the costume department should all be rightfully criticised. What makes it even worse is that it has some well known actors including Priscilla Barnes and Robert Vaughn. Avoid at almost all cost.
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10/10
Michelle Bauer and Priscilla Barnes are great in this flick!!!
JimSthers8 November 2002
I only bought this DVD because of Michelle Bauer, and I love it, it was a lot better than I expected, although anything with Michelle Bauer is never boring and is always funny... This flick has the four lead women naked several times, Priscilla and Michelle have the best one liners. Not horror, just comedy and the sexiest scream queens.
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9/10
Genuinely silly and
Warma20 August 2020
I came back to write this review some ten years after watching this flick, because I noticed that it is one of the less known movies I keep coming back to. I've repeatedly shown it to many of my friends and enjoyed it every time when I sit down and watch it with them.

This is a really stupid movie, but it is also both genuinely funny, and one which seems like the kind of production in which the people making it really had fun too. The enjoyment is contagious, and I can't help but to feel happy while watching it.

Granted, you have to like B movies to like this one, but I dare you to give it a honest chance.
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