Psycho Sisters

Now I am not saying "Psycho Sisters" is a good movie. It certainly does not fulfill the directors vision as a frightening serial killer film. What it is, is an entertaining over the top "dark comedy", that wears it's low budget proudly. Hateful sisters, Theresa Lynn and J.J. North, creatively kill a nice assortment of guys, adding their "members" to a rapidly growing collection of male sex organs. Exploitive? Certainly. Entertaining? Definitely. Although the "black comedy" element is sporadic, scenes such as killing a couple bikers with a well hidden machete is a good example of the macabre humor. Remember the sisters credo, "The only good man is a dead man" . - MERK

Here's a movie that's sure to offend! As children, Jane and Jackie Sicole witnessed their mother kill and castrate their Nam-vet rapist father before blowing her brains out. As teens, they saw their baby sister get gang raped and strangled to death by some obnoxious punks. So, needless to say, as adults, the Sicole sisters have a bone to pick with all men and don't hesitate to kill them whenever a chance comes their way. They keep the severed penis' of victims in mason jars and a bunch of investigators are hot on their trail.

All of this, as sick and tasteless and exploitative and offensive and gory as it is, is also surprisingly well done on a very low budget and thankfully teeters on camp, so the twisted violence and sadism ends up being more amusing than nauseating. The director (who co-scripted with James L. Edwards) fills his film with action, sex, violence and such a surprising amount of clever and amusing comedic touches, that they completely offset most of the grisliness. The performances delivered by Theresa Lynn and J.J. North are also very fun. This was a remake of a shorter version of the same story, made by WAVE Productions in 1995.

A very good B-movie from E.I. Indipendent, casting a couple of gorgeous looking girls (Theresa Lynn and my favorite J.J. North) as demented serial killers slashing all the men they may put their hands over - well, quite all. You may expect a cheap movie, full of breasts and buns, of horrible gags, similar to dozens of others. Well, it is not so: both the lead girls are far better actresses than you may think; the nudes are really, really limited - at least in the version I've seen, perhaps more in the unrated version - gore is a plenty, but not so diffuse. Still, you are able to enjoy this rape-revenge slasher from start to finish, with its simple, but workable plot, and when you reach the end you definitely have not added a remarkable opus in your collection, but still you are glad to have seen and enjoy it.

This movie proves that there were pathetic slap-togethers created by talentless wanna-bes well before the advent of the first iPhone (the tool of choice for today's sub-$100 budget productions). Sure, there was schlock dating way back to the '50s, but at least that was quality schlock, some of which even attained cult status - but this steaming pile broke new ground when it was excreted in 1998.

So we have talentless writers and talentless directors (in each case team efforts, as no one person could possibly make something this horrendous), someone whose parents said they made a great family video holding the camera, and someone with the dexterity of Timmy from South Park doing the final editing. What a collection!

Add to this the "actresses" whose sole talent was their willingness to appear in front of the camera, and you have something which was made for screening at drive-ins a couple of decades after drive-ins started disappearing.

I loved this the sisters are amazing. And really amazing actresses and the script this was one of the best the ever made.