Maniac Nurses find Ecstasy

This isn't "true" Troma production, Troma probably only distributed it, but it is good example of same of the most bizarre Troma productions. I'm now convinced that Troma's policy is: "You have the most stupid idea for the movie, we will make a serious feature film based on your idea. We are not afraid of the most bizarre ideas, they give us the chance to make another film".

If you want to see something really strange, see this movie. But be prepared for strange experience. I watched entire movie late night fascinated how far they could go. And they really went quite far. Fascinating.

In this bizarre horror film,Ilsa and Sabrina are a mother/daughter team of lesbian nurses with sadomasochistic tendencies who,with their compatriot Greta,enjoy luring unsuspecting strangers back to their remote clinic and subjecting them to various homegrown tortures.Somewhere down the line,Sabrina falls victim to a cadre of feminist terrorists who have decided that she is to be part of their plan for world domination."Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy" is a truly abysmal exploitation film which was released in America by exploitation film masters Troma Team Pictures.It has also appeared under the title "Bloodsucking Freaks II",though it has no connection to Joel M.Reed's memorably sleazy 1977 cult abomination.The film itself is boring and there is very little nudity.The acting is amateurish and the storyline is completely absurd.The funniest thing is that "Maniac Nurses" is apparently a Hungarian porno film that's been edited into one of the most delirious stinkers you'll ever see.The hardcore sex scenes were cut out and Troma or somebody else decided to dub it.Some women are absolutely gorgeous and there is a gory moment where a guy's feet is sliced off his body when he runs into a trip wire type booby-trap,but you'll suffer watching this mess.2 out of 10.

The full title is Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy. Interestingly enough, Ecstasy was in Vermont, not far from Montpelier.

Here's the formula to duplicate this movie: shoot some cheap videotape footage of women in white lingerie. You don't even need to shoot sound footage. In fact, it's more flexible without sound. Just make sure there are plenty of shots of the women from behind, so you can dub in some voices later without having to worry about lip-synching. This gives you the additional advantage of having the movie in any language for later distribution. Why just imagine your masterpiece in Catalan or Frisian, or even in Latin for its run in Vatican City. Include a little bit of nudity and gore, although this will have to be cut when the pope watches.

"Hey, now that I have the footage of them doing various things in my backyard, how does that become a movie?"

Easy, make up a story. Any story. Just watch an old episode of Alfred Hitchcock on Nick at Night, and copy down a plot summary. Now have one of your friends with a deep voice read your summary aloud, and tape him. Add this here and there throughout your footage as a voice-over narration. It worked for Blade Runner, and it can work for you.

"Hey, I did that and it's only 44 minutes long."

No problema, amigo. Here's how to lengthen it. Watch a travelogue on TV and tape it. Let's say it's about Venice. Choose about 10 minutes of good stuff, insert it in your footage somewhere near the end, and have one of the characters say something to another, something like "you wonder how it all began? Your mother and I met in Venice, where I was working as a gondolier." Have him or her recite some background activities, some interesting facts about Venice, or just some generic thoughts like "those were the good times, I tell you. Yessireebob". If you have a friend who can say it with an Italian accent, all the better. Or for that matter, any accent will do. People who watch movies like "Maniac Nurses" can't tell the difference between a Chinese accent and Estonian.

"Hey, no travelogues on tonight. Just some shark specials on Discovery."

No problem, my friend. Just change the monologue to "your mother and I met off the great barrier reef, where I was hunting the Great White with Captain Cousteau's crew." Pretty much any real-life footage will work.

"OK, done, now I still need another 15 minutes?"

Easily fixed. This is where you add some fine art which will make your film much admired at Cannes. Does your script take place over four days? That's three sunsets and three or four sunrises which not only add to the beauty of your masterpiece, but provide an all-important time marker for your film, and do so much more subtly than ripping the top page off one of those desk calendars. Do your characters live in a house? Surely there is a beautiful old home near you which will make for some good exteriors. Your narrator simply needs to say something like, "meanwhile, in Stately Wayne Manor, ... ".

Finally, perhaps one of your characters is reading some magazine. Right after the footage of the character, show some of the articles he or she was reading. If you show some warning signs of cancer or something, you'll not only add educational value but also provide redeeming social importance, which is so critical to those obscenity trials. And this has an added plus. Later in the film you can add the exact same footage back in as a flashback, while your character tries to remember that third warning sign. Use the same footage again and again to add to the fun, as you provide valuable insight into your character's psychological development, or deterioration, as the case may be.

Now the only thing left to do is to dust off the mantlepiece, and make a little extra room for your Palm D'Or.

This movie was really bad. Not Michael Jackson Bad, but heading down a river to a water fall with no way to escape bad.

I've had the displeasure of watching this movie twice. Once because my friends and I were looking for terrible movies and the second because I got caught in a second group I showed it two and they wanted to watch the whole thing.

I give it a 2 simply because its so spectacularly bad, and there is one scene, that was so amazingly bad, that we still talk about over 5 years after discovering this movie.

Its a movie to bad to even have a party and attempt to pick it apart with jokes with a group of friends.

I do recommend watching it if you are looking for the worst movies, especially if its a contest as you'll likely win.

"Maniac Nurses" is really a fever dream rather than a movie. It's one of those flicks you just have no control over, you have no idea what's going on and every new scene just makes you more confused and frustrated. Whatever plot they have is clearly ad-libbed by the annoying narrator, who tries to make scenes of bored women sitting on couches deeply philosophical. He has uhm, mixed success. Without the narrator this movie would be a lot more fascinating, because he's the only voice that seems to be coming from this planet. Once he shuts up for two seconds the movie almost becomes a pleasant hallucination. The cinematography is butt-ugly, the colors are all washed out, the production values aren't even good enough for 70s porn, none of the actors has a single other credit: it's exploitation at its trippiest, it meanders from random death to random death with no idea what a beginning, middle or end looks like. To beef up the running time every scene goes on about ten times longer than it needs to, but this movie is so slow, tedious and repetitive than it's almost hypnotic. So what I am to do, recommend it? I can't, I hated this movie. And perhaps I'll hate it again when I rewatch it. "Maniac Nurses" has a bizarre effect on me.