Lara Naszinsky, Milijana Zirojevic, Suzy Kendall

After her snobby schoolmates accidentally send her into a coma, poor little Kathy has only one way to get even--with her mind! Eva, another schoolgirl, falls under the spell of Kathy's vengeful psyche...( read more  read more... ), which is capable of horrible destruction using telekinesis and even killer snails to do her bidding. Soon the hallways at St. Mary's School are filled with screaming, and there's no way to escape. In the tradition of Carrie, this psychic shocker from legendary Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci, the man behind such outrageous cult favorites as The Beyond and Zombie, is filled with the visual style and gruesome madness his fans have come to expect. Available for the first time in America, this eerie look at the dark side of adolescence proves that girls might be made of sugar and spice, but they're not always nice!

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Unrated, 85 min.

Directed by: Lucio Fulci

Release Date: January 1, 1987

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DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001

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  • November 8, 2008
    After Kathy's classmates play a prank on her which sends her into a coma poor Kathy has only one way to get back at them and thats with her mind she assumes control over the body of the new girl in school Eva and exacts her revenge and starts killing off the students one by one. ...( read more)One of Fulci's more weirder movies is a italian take on the movie carrie except for the girl being in a coma really worth checking out for anyone thats a fan of Fucli's work or just italian horror in general as this does have the goods to keep people interested.
  • November 8, 2009
    Later Fulci effort that's awesome. The overhead shots in the opening and beginning make it look like a very high budget flick. Kills are a bit weak but I think Fulci was starting to go more suspenseful with this one.
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. In general I don't like horror movies.
  • August 1, 2007
    It's that time again, tonight I am reviewing the late great Lucio Fulci's strange and often confusing Aenigma.

    Our cast consist of teenage girls at a private all girls school. Some are bitchy and some are incredibly promiscuous with the local doctor and gym teacher.
    In all of th...( read more)is we have Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), shes the daughter of the 'retarded' janitor. This makes her different from the other girls so much they have to pull a prank on her which lands her in a coma. Nice one.

    In the coma state she well I'm not sure what she does but I think she possess the new girl Eva (Lara Naszinsky, who also appeared in Lamberto Bava's A Blade In The Dark) who happens to come from a rather 'privileged' background. And then acts out her revenge upon her classmates. Her mum the janitor also has a hand in this...somehow.

    Visually this film is quite colourful in an Argento way, but gorehounds will be disappointed as there is very little grue in this Fulci outing.

    It plays out almost like a twisted Carrie. To me this is missing something that his previous films had, especially musically. This films music is often dull but does have its moments. The characters in the story are all quite dull and the acting doesn't help bring them to life either.

    Also the locations for this movie are very nice with marble floors and stone sculptures (which one of the unfortunate teens some how...gets attacked by).

    If you hadn't noticed I'm finding it incredibly hard to say anything about this film...as I don't know what the hell was quite going on, as for the ending well I hope my fellow blogger can help me out with it.
  • January 13, 2007
    Mel Brooks is funny, but I dunno about this one
  • December 3, 2006
    I would like to see this, i think...
  • November 25, 2006
    Directed By Lucio Fulci.

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