Sisters of Death 1972

Above is the new dvd cover (That has absolutely nothing to do with the fucking movie) for the 1972 drive-in flick, Sisters of Death. I'll stick with the old vhs artwork, personally.


In the same vein as Ten Little Indians, Sister's of Death does the 'invitation' thing some years before Paul Lynch's Prom Night, and even before Class Reunion Massacre from 1976. Sorority girls are holding their initiation for two inductees that involves a pistol/murder reinactment in which one of the 'Sisters' would load the gun, place it to the inductee's head and pull the trigger. Of course, the blank bullet is just supposed to make a loud noise and that's it. But, in this case, it splatters the girls brains all over the place and the rest is history. Anyway, it's a few years down the road and the remaining ex-sorority girls receive an invitation and five hundred bucks to attends a 'Sister's' reunion. They are supposed to meet in a designated spot where two guys with a beat-up station wagon (with sheets over the windows) are to pick them up and take them to their destination, where they themselves are to make a couple hundred bucks. After all the girls finally arrive, the two guys drive the girls to their location. One of the guys talks his friend into staying and partying with the girls, and they soon learn they're stranded on the property. (Pussy has been known to get a man into trouble at times.) An electric fence keeps them on the premises while an unknown specter roams throughout the mansion spying and doing away with the girls one by one. Sister's of Death is a film that does a lot of cliché' things before it was cool to do so. The acting is surprisingly good for a drive-in caliber flick. There's copious amounts of cheese that accompanies the actions and dialog of our characters, and a twist ending that I never saw coming. It comes from nowhere. Just who is it that is taking the girls out one by one? Just whose revenge mode is set on high, and what lengths will they go through to extend their murderous rage?

In a nutshell, Sisters of Death could very well be considered one of the first proto-slashers to enter the game. There were other films before it with slasher elements, but not really for the bodycount. Sisters of Death goes for the bodycount, with an abnormally high bodycount for 1972. Well worth the buck you'll pay for it no days in one of those bargain bins.

I learned a few things from this film as well. Apparently, in 1972, it wasn't abnormal for two guys to drive a beat-up station wagon around with curtains over the windows. You should never take a shower while someone is roaming around the house killing people. Never forget and run into a live electric fence. Joe Tata does the electric boogie and he didn't like it. Old vengeful men keep Gatlin guns in their attic.