Girlfriend from Hell (1989)

Terrible comedy about a teenage girl, Maggie(Liane Curtis)whose body is taken over by the Devil; her friends' souls are hanging in the balance. Chaser(Dana Ashbrook; WAXWORK), assigned by God to kill Satan, is the group's only hope. Lezlie Deane(FREDDIE'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE)will join forces with Chaser in helping save her friends from eternal damnation. The Devil uses Maggie's body for sexual purposes, and the guys of the group who she seduces have their "souls sucked" during intercourse. Maggie, possessed against her will, also has powers at her disposal so her friends are in a whole heap of trouble(bodies are levitated in mid air, can be controlled to do sinful things, etc). Ashbrook, and the rest of the cast, seem to be having fun with the material(especially Curtis as the girl possessed by the Devil), as Satan causes all sorts of mischief and mayhem. Ashbrook has problems with his teleporting device, a tool which sends him to alternate planets and dimensions. The entertainment value of such a movie as this depends on whether or not you find the material funny. If you enjoy the characters, the performances of the actors involved, and what comes out of their mouths, maybe silly junk like this might have some appeal..there are plenty of jabs at Christians and the usual sexual jokes. If you enjoy seeing women slug guys in the face and vice versa, this could tickle your funnybone, like one such scene where Ashbrook punches a possessed Maggie out of a window and off of the roof to the ground below numerous times(or where one victim is reduced to the size of a gold fish and put in a bowl of water for boinking Maggie over the head with a bible). I think many will know Curtis from SIXTEEN CANDLES. This is probably a bit funnier if one is intoxicated or stoned.

Yea... yea... I know its not a politically correct "I wanna change the world" movie.Nor...is it written by some Ivytower "I'm smarter than you" elite Hollywood snob writer/producer with a mega budget.Just because a movie is not pushing the latest agenda from some crybaby group doesn't make it trash.I myself found this movie to be very amusing and entertaining.I will admit I have a soft spot for corny, freespirted,funny,and happy go lucky movies from the 80's being I was was in my mid 20s in the late 80's.Unlike the movies that followed in the mid 90's. They are mostly dark and gloomy with dysfunctional prozac taking misfit freaks crying about something or acting like a reject hiphop simpleton punk losers with 50 word vocabularies portraying disgusting anti social behavior.Boys are portrayed as emasculated and girls are portrayed as trashy sluts who are smarter and just as strong as men.How PERVERTED !Good job feminist movement ! Little do you know but your perverted agenda has set the womens movement back!Now young girls are portrayed in movies acting like men !!!They have no self respect for themselves they deface their bodies "Trampstamps" They dress like cheap sluts on the corner. They sleep with whomever and speak like illiterate fools spewing vulgarities.So in other words they act like men.LOL Good job you demented angry fools!!! OK... back to the movie!This movie came out at a time when the political correct straight jacket was being thrust upon us by every intolerant whining group from A to Z. Just another reason why this movie was so funny by making fun of some of these soon to be ridiculous hot button gender issues to come in the loser mid 90's too the present.It's funny and sad that this goof ball movie that was pointing out and making fun of these issues is now reality.Just look at the foolishness on T.V.Women fighting fist to cuff with men.It's absolute perversion!Its the main reason I don't watch TV. I haven't in over five years.Total perverted trash oozing from the demented sewer pipe of Hollywood.OK...My mind needs a break from this insanity!I'm going to pop in Girlfriend from hell and laugh from start to finish.Oh yeah,even the closing credits of this movie are funny as all heck.Check them out sometime.

Well... Girlfriend from hell is about a shy single soul called Maggie who just so happens to be set up by her friends for a birthday party. When the Devil is being chased by 'Chaser' it enters the body of little shy Maggie. Not so shy anyone, Maggie goes on the town with her friends to raise some hell and boy does she!!!Some people may be off put by the first scene which happens to be worse the 'The Blob's' first scene. Every single person in the film is wonderful and I'm sure that you will laugh out aloud at this one, even if you don't want to.Nuns with guns... Killer lobsters... steering wheel jams... blow jobs from hell... five wrapped sweaters... a cake... And for god sake... When invited to a birthday party of Rocko's, DO NOT burst a balloon.The woman playing Rocko's girlfriend is the highlight of this film. She makes me smile and laugh just from looking at her doing nothing! For example, when Rocko burst a balloon...."WHAT did you do that for...?" "It was a stupid balloon!" "It wasn't just a stupid balloon, it was one of your birthday balloons I spent a very long time blowing up..!" (KICKS HIM IN THE FACE)FANTASTIC, HILARIOUS COMEDY THAT IS VERY WELL DONE... LOOK OUT FOR THE SCENE WITH THE VASE!

...which is that if "nothing interesting happens in the first fifteen minutes, forget it." And this movie unfortunately, is slow, ponderous, and incredibly plodding right up until the Devil possesses former wallflower Maggie and turns her into...well, what you'd expect in any female incarnation of the Devil NOT being played by Linda Blair. Wild 80's hairstyle and all. Even if it's a 1990 film. Sure, it's a dumb movie...over-acted, weird script, dumb plot, but...once Maggie becomes "The Devil" and the "Chaser" (who not only has some great one-liners ["Yeah, I met God. He's a lot shorter in person."] and also has the great running joke of his trenchcoat that seems to have at least one of everything in it somewhere...blow-up doll, six-pack of beer, roll of toilet paper, who knows what else...) starts coming after her, it turns out to be pretty darn funny. While the "Franks and Beans" joke is pretty lame and badly set up, what immediately follows (the "Rambo Nuns") is a riot. Not worth killing yourself to get a copy of, but worth a look if you're in a weird mood.