Why oh why oh why do I keep letting these Troma titles dupe me? Let’s start by saying that Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy is neither as maniacal nor as ecstatic as it purports to be. Apparently the nurses in question have become so inured to excess that now they can only derive sexual pleasure from killing people. There are long scenes of bored women reading porn and stripping for each other with a voiceover helpfully spelling this out for us. Oh, and one of them is having sex with the woman who’s secretly, her mother— that’s the “horrible secret” the helpful voiceover makes clear to us in the first five minutes. Nothing else really happens until three-quarters of the way in, when a bunch of campers pitch a tent nearby— finally, with someone around for these homocidal maniacs to kill, it’s bound to get better, right? Wrong. Eventually, of course, the daughter is doomed to learn that she’s sleeping with her mother, at which point she goes crazy and kills everyone.
Doesn’t this sound like it should be at least a little fun to watch? Like it should have some redeeming qualities, at least if you’re into this kind of thing? It doesn’t. It’s hard to communicate exactly how torturous this film is. The pacing is so slow that it actually causes physical pain, until the nurses start hunting down the innocent campers, at which point it somehow gets even slower.
When you rent a film with a title like Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy, you’re obviously looking for a very specific type of entertainment, but the last thing a film like this should be is boring. And with such a promising premise, the headache-inducing awfulness of this is inexcusable. Don’t make the same mistake I did and get sucked in by the title. No one should ever watch this movie. Seriously. For your own good, avoid it like the plague that it is.
by Megan Weireter | Source: Rampage DVD
30 Aug 2007 1:28 PM | Comments (2)
Now THAT’S an entertainingly negative review!
The premise is still great. I vote for a remake.
Chiranjit
31 August 2007
8:07 AM
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