The Worst Film Ever

recommended

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

In a plot borrowed very liberally from Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Arthur Franz invites five women who took part in a sorority initiation that killed his daughter Elizabeth Bergen to be his guests at a weekend retreat. The young girl was killed during a game of Russian Roulette that was ruled accidental. But Franz doesn't believe it and has a weekend of fun and games for the sisters.Two men who were paid to deliver the sisters to Franz's home, Paul Carr and Joe E. Tata, invite themselves to the party thinking they could score with one of them. The five girls Claudia Jennings, Cheri Howell, Sherry Boucher, Sherry Alberoni, and Roxanne Albee are certainly enough to give any red blooded guy a reason to hang around. Of course they regret that soon enough.The bodies start to fall, the screaming gets louder and louder, almost like it's a contest to see which of them screams the loudest. The end of this film is totally bizarre and comes from out of the ballpark let alone left field.The girls in skimpy outfits are the only reason I can think of to watch this film.

OK, I 'll admit it: I was fooled by the salacious DVD cover for Sisters of Death, which claimed that the film contained 'images of a graphic nature which may cause offence' and featured two images of hot, scantily-clad women (who aren't even in the film). The reality is that this cheap slice of 70s drive-in fodder is extremely tame stuff, featuring very little violence, no sex, and almost no nudity (although it does admittedly feature several hot, scantily-clad women that aren't shown on the cover, including Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings).The story revolves around a group of young women who are invited to a reunion party seven years after a bizarre initiation ceremony at their sorority claimed the life of one of their 'sisters'. After arriving at their remote destination, a house surrounded by an electric fence (NOT a castle, as stated on the DVD cover), the girls become trapped and begin to die one by one...Poorly acted, and with shoddy production values (the film has a tacky made-for-TV vibe), Sisters of Death is rarely scary, never shocking and, as a result, very disappointing. If 'This is the version they didn't want you to see!!!' (as the cover also warns), I hate to imagine how lousy the version they did want us to see is.

After an extremely bizarro pretitle initiation scene where a sorority pledge is murdered, "Sisters of Death" becomes a rather dull affair. The film has the look and feel of a made-for-TV production--its titillation is a tease at best, and the violence is almost remarkably subdued. Seven years after the pledge's murder, the five remaining sisters are invited to a reunion at an isolated mansion, presided over by an unknown host; two male escorts hang around as the girls get picked off, one by one. While "Sisters" isn't necessarily boring, its restraint and overall lack of innovation doesn't make for exciting viewing. There is some character development, and the film comes to ludicrous, multiple-twist finale, but by then it's too late. Still, it merits a "2" based solely on the gorgeous female cast, all of whom look fine in bikinis and/or negligee.

I can't say much more than other reviewers. A group of particularly dumb people hook up at rich man's house, and do dumb things and get themselves killed. The fact of the matter is, they had all the tools at their command to disable that electric fence (or short circuit it). The bad guy hangs out in his room and leaves them alone most of the time. They can come and go, plot, talk, do whatever, but no one comes up with a decent idea to get them out. Then there are a series of ridiculous plot twists that leave us guessing (guessing why we ever watched this in the first place). The girls are all attractive and run around in swim suits, but that is really damning with faint praise. Why is it when people start getting killed, the characters do things like take showers, away from the rest of the group. Or go nosing around "by themselves." There is truly strength in numbers. These people never figured that out.