Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)

Roger Corman's influence is all over Hollywood. One of the many to be given their start by Corman is the director of this stupid movie. His name is David DeCoteau and for some reason he's been allowed to make stupid movies to this very day. Good for him.The movie was made for a little under 100k and it's hard to say what this money was spent on. It wasn't lights that's for sure. Everything is cloaked in black having been lit by a couple dozen desk lamps. Basically some babes initiate some other babes into a barely populated sorority (there are three members it seems). Instructed by the sorority babes, the prospective babes with schmuck guys in tow set out to rob a bowling alley which is a lot of fun because there's an imp hidden inside the trophy they need to steal. UH OH. The imp goes all Wishmaster on the crew, a punk babe shows up, and that's when I mostly lost interest.The movie tries its hand at some lame referential nods. A girl who resembles Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein, that sort of thing. Fred Dekker did this kind of stuff better in Night of the Creeps. That's a great movie there.So we have babes and nerds and an 'imp'. Add to this an exploitation workhorse, the late George Flower, who shows up as a janitor - only he's not drinking (his character that is, I'm sure he was bolloxed on the set). Missed opportunity. He spends most of his time stuck in a closet and talking to himself. What a waste. In fact, that's basically what this movie is - a gigantic missed opportunity. If you're going to have close to zero production values with a cast drawn from the Herschell Gordon Lewis play book then just throw everything at it. Beheadings, torchings, foul language, casual cruelty, thrash metal. There's a dash of all this where it needed to just go nuts and empty the whole bag.Brinke Stevens is in this movie. She commands a bit of a (creepy) following. I have no clue why, but she is prolific. A better movie to laugh along with is one she appeared in a year before; Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, one of the endless variations on The Most Dangerous Game. Cardboard set type junk but a lot more entertaining.There are way better movies of this kind out there. The pacing blows unless you count intermittant nudity for the hell of it. Nothing wrong with that but it's not enough to hang the movie on.Lines are delivered.Some of the dialogue is amusing but mostly it's bare bones half-assed exposition (they have to say something I guess). I did like the bit cribbed from Groucho Marx where a guy is getting laid into by Michelle Bauer and he says something like"If you were any closer I'd be behind you" "Oh you're so witty!" "Yeah but I stole that"And George Flower's line "f***, that's stuck tighter than a nun's c***" is cheerfully delivered.There was a sequel of sorts made in 1991 called Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death that's supposed to be even more boring. And whoever made that puppet: good try but no. Makes Rawhead Rex look Oscar worthy.With Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, Robin Stille, Andras Jones

This is the classic case of a fabulous title to a film but a horrible movie. With a name like "Sorority Babes At The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama," I just had to check this film out. If you think the film sounds cheesy, it is - in spades.It's a sleazy horror spoof that wasn't funny and only offered some nice boobs to watch (for us guys). That's about it. The two main characters were just plain annoying and too profane and, for a horror flick, it was anything but scary. I guess it was more of a comedy but outside of the "imp," not too much of the humor was good stuff. The film showed promise early on, but once they got to the bowling lanes the film rolled a gutter ball. Oh, well....it's still my favorite movie title of all time.

For some incomprehensible reason – it's actually one of the biggest mysteries of our time - director David DeCoteau has quite a large share of loyal fans and especially his 80's and early 90's movies have gained a undeserved cult status. Nevertheless ALL of his movies are extremely inept and ridiculous trash, with loads of dull moments, gratuitous sleaze and lousy special effects. I always thought "Creepozoids" was the worst of the bunch, but now that dubious honor goes to "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama". Appealing title, isn't it? Well, it's the best thing about it. Here we have the umpteenth 80's horror movie revolving on a fraternity initiation ritual that goes a runs a little out of hand, only here it's not scary or gory, just stupid! So far, the hardest ordeals Taffy and Lisa had to endure to get into the sorority were getting butt-spanked and covered in whipped cream, but now they have to break into the local bowling alley – along with three nerd prototypes boys – and steal a trophy. Whilst doing that, and also running into Linnea Quigley who plays a female burglar (?), they accidentally free a mythical monster from it's resting place. This thing is not quite a Djinn, not a demon and it's not really a Gremlin, neither. Apparently it's an "Imp". These...um...Imps don't do very much apart from talking crap, seemly through the voice of a washed-up Blaxploitation-star. Some teenagers die, other teenagers take their clothes off and good old Buck Flower plays the exact same character as he did in 150 previous movies. Poorly directed, with absolutely no attention to tension or continuity, and atrociously acted by an impressive collection of brainless bimbos. The 80's brought forward a lot of great things in the horror industry, but even more irredeemably bad garbage. For DeCoteau fans and Quigley-groupies only!

This is a horrible movie,I mean really, it is just garbage, you want to toss your TV out the window watching this, and yet the person who edited this movie, is a genius of epic proportions. Who ever it is, knew just when you would have had enough and were about to leave, and just that moment, he would toss in come nudity, or sex, and you would be drawn back in. It never failed, we are talking perfect timing, just as you would go to turn it off, there was the nudity, so who ever he is, he has perfect timing, but for the rest of the movie, it is a total waste of time, and I amazed that someone backed this movie in the first place, avoid it at all costs,unless you want to go into editing, then learn from this modern day master of the craft.