Are you kidding me? 2.5 star average? Perhaps Girlfriend from Hell is receiving ratings from people who only watch full cinematic comedies, perhaps I'm an old crony who still likes his films fun, but I've thought Girlfriend From Hell was great fun since I first saw it in the 90s.A group of young adults attending a small birthday party are planning to set the debilitatingly shy Maggie up with Carl, a young man so shy he can barely talk without wanting to vomit from nerves. Things take a supernatural turn when the spirit of the devil enters Maggie's body while running from a pursuer, turning her into the life, and death, of the party. It's up to devil chaser to restore Maggie to normal and save her friends, but having the devil inside her for a day might be just what the doctor ordered for Maggie's crippling insecurity...The Good: Dana Ashbrook and Liane Curtis steal the show. Ashbrook is a criminally underrated actor, made famous by Twin Peaks but really not showing up as often as he should, and rarely gets a chance to be funny like he was here. To me he'll always be Chaser. Liane Curtis, well, I've seen her in pretty much nothing else, maybe Critters 2, but she does a great job here. The soundtrack is great too, with a combination of pop-punk songs and chugging synths so representative of the tail-end of the 80s.The Bad: The rest of the cast are pretty ho-hum. Other characters aren't fleshed out like Chaser and the devil are, and the majority of the film seems to take place within the same house party. The cartoonishly violent relationship between two supporting characters is hilarious, but the same joke is then transferred to Dana Ashbrook's character and another supporting character, the movie then overuses the same 'man does something perverted, woman responds with cartoon violence' joke lifted straight out of a Japanese anime.The Straight-To-Video: The camera work, not that I noticed this in my teens, is typical of a straight-to-video film, essentially just pointing at what you need to see, without any particular effort to frame it well or achieve the right dramatic effect. At times it can give the feel of a home video. The special effects, while cheesy, are impressive for something with such a low budget, with appropriately some gory corpses and even a brief "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" moment using a giant cheese-puff. For a movie about a being chasing the devil herself (HERself) across time and space, it all seems quite small scale, really, with only a few locations in the film. The house, a restaurant, the street, and a short trip to a canyon is about as far as it goes.Unfortunately, while this used to be a bargain for a cheap VHS, there is no DVD, so I can only recommend it to retro VHS aficionados, Dana Ashbrook fans, or those nostalgic for the original release. If you aren't still rocking the VHS, head to twisted danger dot net where they produce a DVD disk of the film.

Yea... yea... I know its not a politically correct "I wanna change the world" movie.Nor...is it written by some Ivytower "I'm smarter than you" elite Hollywood snob writer/producer with a mega budget.Just because a movie is not pushing the latest agenda from some crybaby group doesn't make it trash.I myself found this movie to be very amusing and entertaining.I will admit I have a soft spot for corny, freespirted,funny,and happy go lucky movies from the 80's being I was was in my mid 20s in the late 80's.Unlike the movies that followed in the mid 90's. They are mostly dark and gloomy with dysfunctional prozac taking misfit freaks crying about something or acting like a reject hiphop simpleton punk losers with 50 word vocabularies portraying disgusting anti social behavior.Boys are portrayed as emasculated and girls are portrayed as trashy sluts who are smarter and just as strong as men.How PERVERTED !Good job feminist movement ! Little do you know but your perverted agenda has set the womens movement back!Now young girls are portrayed in movies acting like men !!!They have no self respect for themselves they deface their bodies "Trampstamps" They dress like cheap sluts on the corner. They sleep with whomever and speak like illiterate fools spewing vulgarities.So in other words they act like men.LOL Good job you demented angry fools!!! OK... back to the movie!This movie came out at a time when the political correct straight jacket was being thrust upon us by every intolerant whining group from A to Z. Just another reason why this movie was so funny by making fun of some of these soon to be ridiculous hot button gender issues to come in the loser mid 90's too the present.It's funny and sad that this goof ball movie that was pointing out and making fun of these issues is now reality.Just look at the foolishness on T.V.Women fighting fist to cuff with men.It's absolute perversion!Its the main reason I don't watch TV. I haven't in over five years.Total perverted trash oozing from the demented sewer pipe of Hollywood.OK...My mind needs a break from this insanity!I'm going to pop in Girlfriend from hell and laugh from start to finish.Oh yeah,even the closing credits of this movie are funny as all heck.Check them out sometime.

The Devil, in the form of a glowing fireball, enters the body of a shy young girl and turns her into a nasty shrew who seduces men and then sucks out their souls, leaving them as skeletons. Luckily (?) the "Chaser", a devil hunter who's been following his target through time and space, arrives at the house where all this takes place and teams up with the girlfriend of one of the victims to stop the Devil and save everyone's souls. This irreverent but largely one-joke comedy (good girl becomes bad girl) starts out as a likable film, but quickly becomes shrill and tiresome. And frankly, I found the running gag of women constantly punching and kicking men about as funny as the reverse gag, of men constantly punching and kicking women, would have been - which is to say, not very. Go see the similarly titled but much better "Highway To Hell" instead. (*1/2)

this movie has always made me laugh out loud. i make all my friends watch it. some people might not enjoy it but i say anything that has nuns with guns in it is a riot. i own the vhs copy and hope that there will be a dvd version soon i have already wore out my vhs copy from watching it so much.