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Sub-par even for the Troma Team, Girls School Screamers is a hybrid slasher/ghost story that half-heartedly collects horror clichs and regurgitates them with routine indifference. The gore sequences are minimal and poorly rendered, the female cast keeps their tops on, and even the hope for amusement via amateurish performances and absurd dialogue is dashed by an overall lack of energy. To delineate the various deficiencies of the storyline and production would make Girls School Screamers sound far more entertaining than it actually is. The plot is reliant upon an extended game of hide-and-seek that the high school age characters are far too old for, to say nothing of the actresses portraying them, all of whom appear to be closer to their ten-year reunion than the senior prom. A millionaire described as having hideous facial scars wouldn't turn heads on the average street corner, and the makeup effects are equally anemic when it comes time to spill the girls' blood (the entire gore budget must have been spent on a jar of strawberry jam and some black shoe polish). An opening shock sequence featuring a little boy scared into a coma by a ghostly Catholic schoolgirl doesn't make sense and a turning point in the story comes when lead ingnue Mollie O'Mara discovers she is the mirror image of the long-dead lass by coming across an antique painting so crudely rendered that only the hair color and gender match with any accuracy. With a bottomless well of lousy slasher films available that at least provide spirited lunacy and subversive attitude, there is little use for the sleepy likes of Girls School Screamers. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
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