Best movie of this year hands down!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Satan ran the early 70s. I first learned about Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan as a child by reading the TV Guide Book of Lists. They asked him what the most Satanic TV shows were and he replied with a list that included so many of my favorite shows. It scared me as a twelve year old — could I be taken by devil worshippers and be made to celebrate the Black Mass?Made for TV movies reflected the Satanic bent of the early 70s. This Aaron Spelling produced, David Lowell Rich (Eye of the Cat, Airport 79 – The Concorde) directed affair brings the devil to the boarding school, along with plenty of attractive girls ready to give their souls to the Son of the Morning Star.Martha Sayers is running from a mysterious stranger who may or may not be related to Torgo from Manos: the Hands of Fate. She locks herself in her sister Elizabeth's (Pamela Franklin, Necromancy, The Legend of Hell House, The Food of the Gods) house and hangs herself. Of course, the police just think it's a suicide. But we know better — The Salem Academy for Women had to have something to do with it. Martha's roommate tells Elizabeth to stay away, but she is having none of it.She takes the name of Elizabeth Morgan and enrolls at the school where she's welcomed by Roberta (Kate Jackson!), Jody Keller (Cherly Ladd!) and Debbie Jones (Jamie Smith-Jackson from Go Ask Alice, who is married to Michael Ontkean, Sheriff Harry S. Truman from Twin Peaks). The fact that Alice and two of Charlie's Angels (Sabrina Duncan and Kris Munroe, I'll have you know) playing devils in a movie thrills me to no end. And throw in Alice and we have a movie!Read more at http://bit.ly/2yALwjp

'Satan's School For Girls' really looks like a cool vintage seventies satanic horror-thriller, but regardless its über-cool title, that doesn't necessarily make it a great movie. When Elizabeth Sayer's (Pamela Franklin, delivering a decent performance) sister commits suicide, she works her way into the private school her sister went to. It doesn't take too long for her to discover other girls have been dying too. The concept is nice and it's not a boring watch, but the mystery is a little weak and the denouement is underwhelming. Features a bunch of good-looking seventies beauties, but no skin and no blood. Some ladies do die, and those scenes are pretty much the only shocks this film has to offer.Interesting trivia: during the '70s, legendary producer Aaron Spelling ('The Love Boat', 'Dynasty', 'Beverly Hills 90210', 'Melrose Place',...) produced several made-for-TV horror movies, and with having watched at least one more of them (the amusing 'Cruise Into Terror', 1978), I strongly suspect they all might be enjoyable watches. So is 'Satan's School For Girls' to some extent, even if it's a quite forgettable film. Makes me curious to see what the remake from 2000 (also made-for-TV and produced by Spelling) might have turned into.

With good intentions and a title that's impossible to live up to, this early-70's movie of the week finds its strength in scattered moments of suspense and performances that give the hammy material every chance to transcend its lower tier. A pre-"Legend of Hell House" Pamela Franklin (cute as a button, a dead ringer for Thelma from "Scooby-Doo") infiltrates a girl's school to try to find out why her sister committed suicide; she is aided in her quest by a pre-"Charlie's Angels" Kate Jackson. The adults are, like, squaresville, and the student body seems to be harboring some far-out secret, which leads to a totally unsatisfying climax. The restrictions of network television show throughout–despite being set in an all-girls school, there is no flesh on display (not even skimpy negligee), and instead of throat-slashings, we have to make do with death by bamboo sticks.

If you miss Charley's Angels, then this is the movie for you. It's got two out of three angels in this campy witchcraft flick.Poor SALEM! The town just can't live down that unfortunate witchcraft hysteria from 400 years ago. So here's another Devil film for Salem. This movie was pretty goofy, but I liked how the students called the administror "Dragon Lady" and never referred to her as anything else.I only ever saw two teachers in this film. The animal psych teacher was a mad sadistwhile the art teacher was a lecherous hippy. The headmistress (aka Dragon Lady) was a useless old drunk. The Salem School seems to have been a pretty big place and yet they seemed to have about 30 students (evidenced by the use of only two transport vans when they evacuated the school). I've also never heard of a college that uses alarm bells to signal the end of various classes. It's a shame that no effort was made to restore this film. My biggest beef with this film is just how bad the DVD transfer was. It had vertical lines all over the place, very muddy color, and more pops and hiss than a winter hearth full of wet wood.