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Young woman running through forest probably being chased by something comes to a lone cabin isolated in the woods. After banging on the demon clad door knocker it opens to b greeted by Grandpa Munster as the professor in his cardboard crypt - bad puns and all. Taking all the cues from "Tales from the crypt" and none of the screen play - creepytales girls night out really fails to deliver even on camp. The acting ranks lower than late night infomercials, and it had all of the camera work of the Blair Witch Project with none of the intent. Add to that some Jay and Silent Bob wannabe's, The Professor's crypt remade to be a wood shed (the covered up the windows and removed the Spencer's $19.95 discount knocker) and a Rabid Scooby Doo mask and we have 3 stories that absolutely do not deliver on anything ... horror, camp, or gratuitous boob shots. The sad thing is I really have to give the producers credit on 3 really unique story lines that really could have gone somewhere. Sadly - we are waiting for the professor to finish his cocktail for another bad pun.

To steal the first part of a otherwise stupid professor quote "Nothing can make you more blinder than love" except for those in the editing room to think this would actually be worth putting your name on.

First of all, how often do you get to see Jack Nicholson at bottom billing, and enjoy a movie. Little Shop of Horrors is a classic farce summing up everything Corman has done to this point. The characters are deliciously over-the-top and ingeniously played by the cast. And the movie throws in one-liner after one-liner, keeping you laughing hard enough (intentionally) you don't notice the little things that bother you in other Corman movies. My favorites include "If hit by a truck call your physician." and "it grows like a cold sore on the lip". The chase scene at the end is something to make the Zucker and Abrahams families proud. So lets all grab a bottle of Dr. Phlegm's cough syrup and drink a toast to the one of the great underground movies that Roger Corman got right. I didn't mean to.

OK someone is playing with my brain... in the cheap horror movie package deals I can usually snag for 5 bucks - this one was advertised as "a lesbian Nazi and her gang of misfits...". Oops, what I got instead was a neo-Christian morality flick about the horrors of organ donation and adoption. Not that I was disappointed per say - but definitely not what advertised. (I will have to get "THE Harvesters" somewhere and see what I was supposed to get.) Though this movie did not have the spit and polish of a modern Hollywood blockbuster, it had some very good points. Luby and Lee were OK with the confines placed on them in a "Christian" movie, and even though I figured out the plot way too early in the movie, it was still a fresh idea and kept me intrigued. However they did go a tad overboard with some of the stereotyping including the paranoid next door neighbor, the computer hacker, the evil front man, and the "good" German surgeon.

With all that what I ended up watching was a semi-decent made-for-TV medical thriller. Now to initiate the search for the Nazi lesbians...