Satan's School for Girls (2000)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Lack of good storyline.

As Good As It Gets

Blistering performances.

Ostensibly a remake of the 1970s TV witchcraft classic of the same name, SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS in reality turns out to be a cheesy variant on the usual CHARMED storyline. Indeed it could be a feature length version of CHARMED and nobody would notice the difference, especially given the ultra-cheesy CGI effects and the presence of leading actress Shannen Doherty.The film opens promisingly with the apparent suicide of a young woman who's a student at an exclusive girls' school. Her older sister subsequently enlists at the same school in order to investigate the death, and she soon becomes a member of a witch's circle where great magic power is wielded. Sadly none of this power translates much to the screen, where everything seems subdued and laboured.The film is dull and cheesy, the worst kind of TV movie cheese there is. Incident in the storyline is limited to a couple of minor characters dying bloodlessly, and it all builds up to an ending chock-full of hilariously bad effects. It's fair to say that the acting is hardly remarkable, with a young Julie Benz (RAMBO) particularly irritating as a fellow student. Still as this is an Aaron Spelling production, the producers are happy to sit back and film the female students in (and out of) various figure-hugging attire, so they're happy.

First off it starts like any teenager horror flick, some one is running from something and dies. The people in it are also horribly cliché, pretty big boobed airheads who secretly (gasp!!) have a satanic cult and a girl with special powers try to stop them! Oh but her parents also died because it wouldn't be a misfit pretty girl if her parents had not died. The movie takes place in Boston yet they mention that the tree was where victims of the witch trails where hung. Am I the only one who knows that only one person was hung in Boston because they where a 'witch' and that it wasn't even in the witch trails?! Love how they misuse the pentacle yet again saying it's 'the devil's mark' its a sign of protection in pagan faiths. Then of course she turns the girls down (all I want is one horror flick where the person doesn't turn them down Jesus! Teenage girls are not that noble!) and she kills them with her super duper powers that set them on fire with horrible special effects. What would a low-budget horror movie be without the end where you think they are safe but 'oh no!' here comes the big bad cliffhanger promising a sequel that makes the first movie look like Shakespeare. This movie is crap don't see it.

This movie had everything going for it as far as being a one of the awful horror movies that is so bad it's funny: it has a really horrible storyline, an even worse script, cheap special effects and some of the worst overacting I've seen in years.The only downfall of this movie was Shannon Doherty, who, though extremely hot, wretched the entire "crappy movie" experience for me with her unnerving indifference. It's like she knew that this was a bad movie to begin with, and so she didn't even try, she might as well have been reading her lines from a teleprompter (which I think she was.As I said, this ruined the experience for me, nothing is more funny to watch then people trying to make serious horror films and failing miserably.

When Beth's (Beth is a witch, but a good one.) sister, Jenny dies, the police think it's suicide. Beth knows that Jenny would never do such a thing, so she decides to go investigate the death by herself. Beth then enrolls at Fallbridge College, the same college where Jenny attended. Beths goes under a different name though, Karen. Whilst Beth is there, she finds out some dark secrets, including one about a secret cult group who call themselves, The Five, who want Beth to join the group as there fifth member. Satan's School For Girls stars, Shannen Doherty, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove and Kate Jackson. They all give pretty good performances here.I expected to like Satan's School For Girls. as I usually always like these kind of movies and as expected I did enjoy it. The movie had a good plot which kept you interested all the way through and it didn't get boring at all. This is a good TV movie. It's a shame it didn't make it to the big screen though.