Disappointment for a huge fan!

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

I caught this movie by mistake and I regret watching it. I expected plenty of sleaze. You know, with a title like "Maniac Nurses" you can imagine sexy women in nurse outfits (short skirts for example) getting to torture innocent victims in old fashion soft core with a touch of hard core. Did I get what I expected? Absolutely not! This is an atrocious effort of exploitation or hard core. It's almost as terrible as "Fraternity Demon".The plot is sleazy and made me think I would get some decent erotic horror. Mistake! The film is so bad filmed it hurts. The gore is terrible and you can only expect to watch an uncomfortable cat-fight that ends up with a stabbing. The torture situations are lame and make you lose interest on it. I wonder if the sex scenes were hardcore because most of them are ridiculously cut. Avoid this one. It's one of Troma's finest mistakes.

Maniac Nurses, or Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy, isn't the worst movie ever, despite what other reviewers have said. I've seen the worst movie ever and this isn't even close.Instead, it's an incoherent mess of a plot featuring scantily clad nurses killing people for no apparent reason. Note that the nurses are generally dressed in skimpy costumes, there isn't enough nudity in the film to catapult it to genuine sleaze status. There isn't enough campy kitsch to make it into a so-bad-it's-good movie. There isn't enough bad humor to make it into any kind of comedy, and there isn't enough of anything else to make it very watchable.It's not awful; it's just plain bad, with the only redeeming quality at all being the skimpy costumes. They've maximized on that with the title and the box cover, but it's just not enough.

I caught "Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy" on the Horror Channel a couple of weeks back. Now i've seen my fair share of bad movies in my time, some fall into the "so bad it's good" category. "Maniac Nurses" however, falls into the "bad bad bad" category. And somehow manages to scrape inside the barrel, the outside and under it.I have to be honest, i didn't really know what was going on. The director and the characters make virtually no attempt to explain anything. But from what i could gather; Isla, her daughter Sabrina, their accomplice Greta and two other "nurses" reside at a clinic in a forest. Because clinics are often situated in forests as we know. When not indulging in lesbian activities, the nurses walk around in little clothing and "torture" males who manage to find the clinic.These "torture" scenes, are extremely unconvincing and laughable. As is the gore, acting, camera work and storyline. But make no mistake. By laughable, i don't mean in a; "Oh, that's funny" way. More of a; "Oh my God. How could something so terrible be released?!" way.The only thing in "Maniac Nurses" that can possibly be considered arousing, is the nurses who aren't bad looking, and the various outfits they sport during the film. That is the only halfway decent thing about this film. Bar a semi-amusing scene where a guy gets whipped by the nurses, while wearing the most bored expression ever, and making shallow sighs. But even this managed to become monotonous as the camera focused on his face the whole time, and the whip-athon went on for a lot longer than was necessary.I really can't think what anyone would get from this abomination. Except a possible few laughs, confusion and boredom. There isn't anything that i think would keep slasher/sleaze/porn fans occupied, save the nurses. But believe me, if you want to see some nurses, just take a trip to your local clinic. It will be a lot less painful than watching "Maniac Nurses."

I have to wonder how bad this movie was before Troma got its hands on it. I bet Troma is responsible for the overwrought voiceovers and tourist footage of the porn palaces of Paris but this is still one snail-paced piece of exploitation cinema. A lot of time is spent on watching the nurses lounge around in lingerie and walk around the woods in tall boots and cutoffs with Uzis. Some heads explode and feet are sliced off but this movie just doesn't quite cut the Grey Poupon mustard.