Best movie of this year hands down!

Just what I expected

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I have to say I rather enjoyed this mixed-up, satanic, teenage love story. One can really tell the actors are having great fun even though their performances may be a bit lackluster. It has a couple of really hilarious one-liners and some laugh out loud slapstick..(When Maggie is guiding Rocco and he walks straight into the wall was great.)There is also a couple small lines thrown in that kind of make you think a little.. "The devil never learned how to read"...interesting. Throw in a lot of sex humor, profanity, two impressive stunts, and a really cute antagonist in mini-skirt and you've got this slightly over-looked late 80's comedy/horror gem. If you've got some time to waste, give this one a shot!

The Devil, in the form of a glowing fireball, enters the body of a shy young girl and turns her into a nasty shrew who seduces men and then sucks out their souls, leaving them as skeletons. Luckily (?) the "Chaser", a devil hunter who's been following his target through time and space, arrives at the house where all this takes place and teams up with the girlfriend of one of the victims to stop the Devil and save everyone's souls. This irreverent but largely one-joke comedy (good girl becomes bad girl) starts out as a likable film, but quickly becomes shrill and tiresome. And frankly, I found the running gag of women constantly punching and kicking men about as funny as the reverse gag, of men constantly punching and kicking women, would have been - which is to say, not very. Go see the similarly titled but much better "Highway To Hell" instead. (*1/2)

...which is that if "nothing interesting happens in the first fifteen minutes, forget it." And this movie unfortunately, is slow, ponderous, and incredibly plodding right up until the Devil possesses former wallflower Maggie and turns her into...well, what you'd expect in any female incarnation of the Devil NOT being played by Linda Blair. Wild 80's hairstyle and all. Even if it's a 1990 film. Sure, it's a dumb movie...over-acted, weird script, dumb plot, but...once Maggie becomes "The Devil" and the "Chaser" (who not only has some great one-liners ["Yeah, I met God. He's a lot shorter in person."] and also has the great running joke of his trenchcoat that seems to have at least one of everything in it somewhere...blow-up doll, six-pack of beer, roll of toilet paper, who knows what else...) starts coming after her, it turns out to be pretty darn funny. While the "Franks and Beans" joke is pretty lame and badly set up, what immediately follows (the "Rambo Nuns") is a riot. Not worth killing yourself to get a copy of, but worth a look if you're in a weird mood.

I won this in an auction on ebay for about 3 bucks, so I figured it was worth it. You can't go wrong for 3 bucks, right? Right! While Girlfriend From Hell may not be the best movie ever, it certainly beat the hell out of the movie I saw Sunday night -- Never Been Kissed. Looking at the IMDb info, I find it hard to believe this was made in 1990 -- the movie screams 80s. Outfits, hairstyles, music...Girlfriend From Hell is about a shy woman -- Maggie -- who gets possessed by the devil. Dana Ashbrook, later of Twin Peaks fame, plays Chaser, a spirit whose job is to track this devil down and destroy her. Maggie, now possessed, wreaks havoc on everyone in the movie, and a few funny scenes ensue: the amount she can drink in one sitting, Rambo nuns, etc. The movie really goes pretty slowly for the first half, but picks up greatly in the second half when Chaser wakes up goes after Maggie. Chaser is a sexist jerk, and has some pretty funny lines. The two surviving women in the movie also have some pretty funny lines at his expense. This is the type of movie you'd be likely to see at 3am on USA on a Saturday night. There's a gratuitous nudity scene that wouldn't make it on tv, but that doesn't really make it worth renting this film. If there's nothing else in the store, pick this up. Or, if it's on tv, don't be afraid to watch it. It's not that bad.