School girls… School girls never change. Besides the atrocious name, this movie might be more similar to the X-men movies than you might think… or want, really.
Catholic school is tough, it’s even harder when your head mistress and the school itself are actively trying to kill you. Just five short years after a girl disappears at the St. Michaels Catholic School it reopens to a much smaller group of five girls. Their parents all dropped them off there because they all have “issues”. The girls soon find out that this school is not the usual school.
As the days go on, the five girls learn to live with each other and use their “issues” to their advantage. Each of them begins to see or hear unnatural events in the run down school. The girls were warned to stay away from the third floor, so of course, the first place the want to investigate is the third floor. What they find is that the school is a front to something much more sinister.
Ron Perlmen plays a priest in a school teaching cute catholic school girls. On top of that this movie is something like a horror movie version of the X-men. Each of the girls has a power. There’s a “Phaser” who can only phase through items contained in a room. The telekinetic girl, who can move things around when she is pissed or hurt. The “conduit” that is a medium, the psychic, and the healer. All they really were missing was the professor, and as much as I wanted it to be Ron, it sadly was not.
Once again, another movie that really tests the boundaries of the willful suspension of disbelief. A school for girls that only has five students, and two teachers seems a bit odd. I liked the fact that they didn’t make the main villain in the movie Satan, but chose rather “Legion”. Not your normal evil entity. Legion is discussed in the Bible as a man possessed. Jesus asks the man what his name is, and gets the reply “My name is Legion, for we are many.” Mortal Kombat fans will recognize this sentiment as the same thing that Ermac says, much for the same reason. This may be the biggest reason why this movie didn’t bother me much.
The special effects are really just camera tricks and milky white contacts, but never the less, they work. I can’t say that I was ever “scared” during the movie, but if I was more susceptible to this type of movie, I probably would have jumped more than once. Most of the dialog is pretty generic, and the acting is passable, but it’s to be expected with a movie like this. I can’t say it is something I will watch again, but it’s a hell of a lot better than “The Craft”.
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