If you saw and liked "The Crush" you'll find "Devil in the Flesh" to be a rather tepid teaser pretty much in the same mold, although not nearly as well-made or suspenseful, with a spate of carboard cutout characters.
This is one of those films that I'd throw under the "Sinful Pleasures" category.. you know it's junk, but for some reason you watch it anyway. Maybe there's nothing else worth watching on cable at the time, or you're fighting a bout of insomnia. Or maybe you're just hanging in there hoping Rose's ample breasts will finally fall out of one of her skimpy outfits.
Anyway, here's your standard, constantly re-hashed plot device of a teenage nympho with a tortured past who is deeply, seriously psychotic (except no one else around her seems to be able to notice), and she develops a crush on one of her handsome, friendly teachers. Once this happens (and the teacher doesn't seem to even notice it's happening until it's way way too late), it's curtains for anyone who tries to get in her way, including her own sadistic granny with whom she lives (but not for long), her high school girl rivals, social workers, cops, and especially the teacher's own girlfriend.
Again, another film where I ask myself "Who puts up the money to make stuff like this and why can't they spend it on something more useful and productive?" Well, I guess it keeps some B-movie actors and production crews from having to eat out of dumpsters.
You'll plod through an hour and a half of mayhem, waiting for Rose to get naked, but it never happens, although if it's skin you want, there's plenty of it including one way too artsy-fartsy love scene between the teacher and his true paramour. "Just lock the camera down, this isn't a rock video!" I found myself almost shouting at the screen.
Along the way you'll meet just about every filmic high school stereotype you've ever seen in 100 other films.. the sex-starved jock in his letterman's jacket (you just KNOW he's gonna be toast), the one-dimensional clueless cops, the gaggles of school girls who come to classes dressed in less fabric than you could cover a Barbie doll with, the school administrators who have _no_ idea there's a crazed psycho in their midst.. you name'em, they're all here, and waiting for Rose to line'em up and knock'em down one by one, in a myriad of sadistic graphic murder scenes. So what else is new?
Again, "The Crush" is a far better film that covers basically the same concept, but in a much more white knuckle, suspenseful way, without the gore and with better actors. This one is strictly late-night cable teevee fodder. About the kindest comment I can voice about it, is that it's not total garbage, just a time-waster.
This is one of those films that I'd throw under the "Sinful Pleasures" category.. you know it's junk, but for some reason you watch it anyway. Maybe there's nothing else worth watching on cable at the time, or you're fighting a bout of insomnia. Or maybe you're just hanging in there hoping Rose's ample breasts will finally fall out of one of her skimpy outfits.
Anyway, here's your standard, constantly re-hashed plot device of a teenage nympho with a tortured past who is deeply, seriously psychotic (except no one else around her seems to be able to notice), and she develops a crush on one of her handsome, friendly teachers. Once this happens (and the teacher doesn't seem to even notice it's happening until it's way way too late), it's curtains for anyone who tries to get in her way, including her own sadistic granny with whom she lives (but not for long), her high school girl rivals, social workers, cops, and especially the teacher's own girlfriend.
Again, another film where I ask myself "Who puts up the money to make stuff like this and why can't they spend it on something more useful and productive?" Well, I guess it keeps some B-movie actors and production crews from having to eat out of dumpsters.
You'll plod through an hour and a half of mayhem, waiting for Rose to get naked, but it never happens, although if it's skin you want, there's plenty of it including one way too artsy-fartsy love scene between the teacher and his true paramour. "Just lock the camera down, this isn't a rock video!" I found myself almost shouting at the screen.
Along the way you'll meet just about every filmic high school stereotype you've ever seen in 100 other films.. the sex-starved jock in his letterman's jacket (you just KNOW he's gonna be toast), the one-dimensional clueless cops, the gaggles of school girls who come to classes dressed in less fabric than you could cover a Barbie doll with, the school administrators who have _no_ idea there's a crazed psycho in their midst.. you name'em, they're all here, and waiting for Rose to line'em up and knock'em down one by one, in a myriad of sadistic graphic murder scenes. So what else is new?
Again, "The Crush" is a far better film that covers basically the same concept, but in a much more white knuckle, suspenseful way, without the gore and with better actors. This one is strictly late-night cable teevee fodder. About the kindest comment I can voice about it, is that it's not total garbage, just a time-waster.