What makes it different from others?

Very well executed

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

While most horror directors feature lovely young girls menaced by evil, director David DeCoteau has turned the tables with films where handsome young frat boys are the victims. Voodoo Academy is one such movie and we know it from the opening scene, where a built young stud, clad only in his tighty whities and white socks, is bound to a table. A priest and a busty woman take turns massaging his near naked body until he is in the throes of orgasm – whereupon he is slain in a voodoo sacrifice.Welcome to Carmichael Bible College, a male-only school for pure minded boys who have pledged to remain virgins. Rev. Carmichael and Mrs. Bouvier (see above) need six young male virgins for their nefarious voodoo ceremony. The whole movie revolves around these six. In a way, they are like the seven dwarfs – each with a defining characteristic. Chris, the new boy, is played by Riley Smith, who's featured on TV's new 90210 and has played tough guy roles in several action movies. Here, he is the smart guy that quickly catches on to the weird stuff happening at the school. His best friend is Billy, played by Kevin Calisher, a wiseass with a sculpted body. Then there's Rusty, played by Huntley Ritter from the movie Bring It On. Rusty is a teenage bodybuilding champ whose powerful young physique is always on display. Mike, Sam and Paul (Drew Fuller from TV's Charmed) complete the six.Though the plot is murky, it comes down to drugging the unsuspecting boys with a lust-inducing potion and then luring them – one by one - up to Mrs. Bouvier's room where she seduces them before sacrificing them to Satan. After avoiding the drug, Chris wakes up one night and witnesses its effects on his buddy Billy. Billy, asleep and naked except for a tight pair of Tommy Hilfiger boxer briefs, is writhing in ecstasy, running his hands over his smooth, ripped body. With his bare chest and chiseled abs glistening with sweat, he works himself up to an orgasm in his sleep. Looking around the room, Chris realizes that each of the near naked boys is likewise involved in a wet dream of their own.When Rusty, clad only in briefs and gym socks, goes sleepwalking, Chris, also in his skivvies, follows him to Mrs. Bouvier's room where he watches her run her hands over Rusty's muscled body and lick his impressive six-pack. When her seduction is complete, the young stud is ready for death and Satan accepts another sacrifice. The next day Chris tries to convince the other boys of their danger, but the drug is still working on them and transforming them from innocents to thugs. Flaunting their hard bodies and now dressed in wife beaters or skin tight black tee shirts, they've become "bad boys" waiting for their turn with Mrs. Bouvier.One by one the other boys are targeted. Rev. Carmichael finds Paul soaking in the bathtub and offers him a soothing shoulder massage. While the boy moans with pleasure under the priests strong hands, the Rev slips a potion into the water and watches the young stud succumb. Mrs. Bouvier seduces another boy with her demonic charms and adds him to the body count.Finally, only Chris, Billy and Sam are left and it's up to Chris to save them with a few tricks of his own. The Rev's and Mrs. Bouvier's magic finally backfires and they are destroyed. The boys, however, are permanently changed and their new badass attitude becomes them. Like Chris says, "Hey, I really wanted to go to Business School anyway."

O.K.; all you fans of the weird; the first thing you have to do to enjoy this movie is see what is really going on. It's obvious that the guys in this College are Gay. After all, even the very whorish Mrs. Bouvier can't even seduce the boys and then knows that because of their being gay, virginal, and young, they've got to be Virgins, and remember that Virgin Sacrifices were common in ye days of Ole. Well, let's stop right there on the subject of these boys Virginity! Now, I liked this film. It's a hoot! Here's a Wanna-Be Ron Hubbard known as the Reverand Carmichael with a woman playing a little bit of Tammy Fay Baker in her characterization, and there's Drew Fuller not knowing that he'll be on Charmed in a couple years, but for now he's got to make the best of a bad decision, but when you come right down to it, I'm sure that when they all read the script they probably couldn't believe that they all had agreed to make such a turkey, so they've, it seems, decided to play it as a high school play with a bit of ham, tongue and cheek, nd shameless showing off while pulling out all the stops with the hoke! And no joke, it's works! You can tell that the guys are all gay when Billy, when first meeting Christopher, calls him Crisco, and Christopher tells him that his name is not Crisco, and Billy, looking at Christopher in a sexy way says that he was only trying to get under his skin! And then when they're all having dinner and the wine is poured, Billy says, "Soooo, we're gonna get trashed" is a gay type sound to his voice, and later when he reaches for Christophers wine and Mrs. B. slaps his hand, it's a campy slap and funny, but for some reason no one sees all of this. They don't even see Billy telling one of the other guys that he loves him in a gay, jokingly way! And listen to most of their voices, they're all playing it in a monotone way, and that' not easy to do! Now, everyone gets the wrong idea about these guys rubbing their bodies in bed at night. Yes, the scenes are sexual, but remember that this only happens when the guy goes up to the attic-voodoo-altar, and remember that they've been drinking that wine, and then the wine is poured on the guy who is tied down to the voodoo altar and then when the Reverand massages the wine all over the guys body, the other young men feel the same thing although their asleep.The Gal playing Mrs. Bouvier looks like three different women in the movie. The sophisticated owner of the school, the whorish vamp who tries to find out how virginal her young men are, and the incarnation of a female Devil, who when Christopher accuses her of killing her husband, she calls him a very Evil Boy! That whole scene is campy as hell! So, this movie was not meant to be a rival to Gone With The Wind, but if you can relax and stop making wild comments about how bad it is; you'll find out that it's quite good, and very entertaining, and isn't that what movies are all about? Entertaining?

As a director, David DeCoteau has an extensive resume ranging from laughably cheap horror films ("Creepozoids"), late-night Cinemax adult "entertainment" ("Beach Babes From Beyond"), gay-film-fest favorites ("Leather Jacket Love Story"), and lame horror films ("Curse Of The Puppet Master"). That he uses about five aliases while directing should be a sign, but there is something indescribably alluring about watching a movie that is, simply, 100% pure trash. DeCoteau does not disappoint in this respect with the supernatural film "Voodoo Academy."The plot centers around Carmichael Bible College, which apparently only enrolls six students each term. The college is run by the odd Mrs. Bouvier (Debra Mayer) and classes are taught by Hollis CarMichael (Chad Burris), an ex-Catholic priest who espouses a religion resembling a bizarre and clunky hybrid of Christianity and Scientology (check out the electro-charged confessional). However, as we learn before the opening credits even roll, Bouvier is in reality a wicked voodoo priestess and Hollis her nefarious assistant. When one of their rituals results in the death of a student, the duo recruit wholesome, clean-cut Christopher (Riley Smith) to fill his place. From the beginning, Christopher suspects something is amiss, and he soon begins to find out that dark and sinister forces are at work.The film itself is an unabashed ode to trashy, campy dialogue as well as young men in designer underwear. Indeed, most of the film consists of scenes where at least one of the students is topless, working out, bathing, or simply skulking through the shadows in Ralph Lauren boxer briefs. That these students look quite good without their clothes on is an added bonus and is in fact the main reason anybody should even begin to rent or buy this film. Even Hollis -- a priest! -- has a topless scene. The plot, as little as there is, is telegraphed in the opening sequence, the actors by and large are wooden, and the special effects are imminently laughable. Never mind the lack of dramatic tension, the often grainy and washed out look of the film, and the absurdity of the premise, which features several scenes that exist only to present footage of the students touching themselves.Still, this film has much to offer. As mentioned before, the film is pure trash in the best sense of the word. Few movies offer this degree of ridiculousness and remain watchable. The boys are all quite attractive and fit, and it's nice to see male flesh on display in horror films for once. And as horrible as the acting and dialogue can be, it's still better than sitting through another showing of "Star Wars Episode II." It's also nice to realize that filming this picture prepared Drew Fuller (who plays Paul St. Clair) for his role on the equally trashy but beyond redemption TV series "Charmed."A note to viewers: This film should only be watched in its unedited form (the DVD is labeled "Lunar Edition" and "Director's Cut"). There is a massive amount of homoeroticism in this film, and the edited version removes most of it. And if you cut out the shirtless young men, you lose most of the reason the watch this film.5 out of 10.

i know you've read that before, on countless other films no doubt if you're reading the comments here, but voodoo academy still stands as the absolute worst film i've been able to track down. no doubt the really bad ones aren't even available to buy or watch on tv, but even so i feel it's fair to qualify that i'm not just some dumb renter who picked badly.i've seen two thirds of the bottom 100 ranked films here on the imdb, and i'm ticking of the remaining ones with every chance. most of those stand head and shoulders above this... excersize in absolute monotony.i like to rate truly bad films (as in ones with no humour even in how bad they are) by how many people you need to watch it with to make it all the way through. if you can watch it by yourself, it isn't that bad. if you can watch it with one single friend... it's bad but could be a lot worse.it took 5 of us to make it all the way through voodoo academy. and not even the usually fun moments of watching bad films (spotting the boom mic for example, 3 times in this one if i'm not mistaken) could take away the dry taste in my mouth. yes i'd watched it, but i'd also forced 4 of my friends to watch it with me to achieve that end.i hope and pray we saw the directors cut... to think that there could be a version with 20 more minutes of big eyebrowed lugs with baby oil glands rubbing their torsos just scares the hell out of me. so much of the film centers around this.i do applaud david decoteau for managing to lens this film in two days on a short budget, just as i applaud him for convincing people to pay him to make what is no doubt a celluloid version of some of his fetishes. but it isn't a good film. the original shop of horrors was shot in the same length of time for a comparitive amount of money (considering inflation) and was an utter gem. it's not an excuse for how bad this baby is.spoilers ahead...it's not even worth picking apart the plot holes or cliched know it all hero characters... the pacing of the film... is insane... nothing... is interesting for the length of time decoteau dedicates to the pectoral self massaging. no matter what your alignment or sex... rubbing just cannot sustain that kind of screen time.the acting is cheese... but not overly amatuer... i've seen a lot worse in better films... but somehow it's the semi competent delivery of some of the worst lines you'll ever hear in a film, that really grates.rent this if, like me, you have a fascination with the worst of the worst, and only if you're going to watch it with a group of people who are prepared to work to get through it. this is no ha ha ha the set wobbled affair. it's an endurance test you probably want to skip.i'm sure there is worse... but i wouldn't be surprised if it has decoteau's name on it.