Sisters of Death (1977)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Joseph Mazzuca

Writers:

Peter Arnold (writer)
Elwyn Richards (screenplay)

Release Date:

August 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

There's nobody to hear your scream...except your killer

Plot:

During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette...

Plot Keywords:

Secret | Initiation | Reunion | Russian Roulette | Gatling Gun

Cast

Arthur Franz	...	Edmond Clybourn
Claudia Jennings	...	Judy
Cheri Howell	...	Sylvia
Sherry Boucher	...	Diana
Paul Carr	...	Mark
Joe E. Tata	...	Joe (as Joe Tata)
Sherry Alberoni	...	Francie
Roxanne Albee	...	Penny
Elizabeth Bergen	...	Liz
Paul Fierro	...	Mexican
Vern Mathison	...	Police Officer

Also Known As:

Death Trap (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Paso Robles, California, USA

Company:

De Ville Films Inc.

Trivia:

Shot in 1972, not released until 1977.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: In the swimming pool scene the boom mic is completely exposed.

Quotes:

[explaining her decision to take a shower despite being trapped in the house with a killer]
Francie: Cleanliness is next to godliness, right? So I figure, if I'm next to Him, Clybourn won't get next to me.
[taps her head]
Francie: Smart chick.

Surprisingly good.

In the same vein as Ten Little Indians, Sister's of Death does the 'invitation' thing some years before Paul Lynch's Prom Night and even before Class Reunion Massacre from 1976.

Sorority girls are holding their initiation for two inductees that involves a pistol/murder in which one of the 'Sisters' would load the gun, place it to the inductee's head and pull the trigger. Of course, the blank bullet is just supposed to make a loud noise and that's it. But, in this case, it splatters the girls brains and the rest is history.

Anyway, it's a few years down the road and the ex-sorority girls receive and invitation and five hundred bucks to attends a 'Sister's' reunion. They are supposed to meet in a designated spot where two guys with a beat-up station wagon (with sheets over the windows) are to pick them up and take the them to their destination, where they themselves are to make a couple hundred bucks.

After all the girls finally make it, the two guys drive the girls to their location. one of the guys talks his friend into staying and partying with the girls and soon learn they're stranded on the property. An electric fence keeps them on the premises while an unknown specter roams throughout the mansion spying and doing away with the girls one by one.

Sister's of Death is a film that does a lot of cliché' things before it was cool to do so. The acting is surprisingly good for a drive-in caliber flick. There's copious amounts of cheese that accompanies the actions and dialog of our characters, and a twist ending that I never saw coming. Just who is it that is taking the girls out one by one? Just whose revenge mode is set on high and what lengths will they go through to extend their murderous rage? Watch and see.