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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.

Nobody is going to mistake "Girlfriend From Hell" for "War of the Roses", but it is at least for the first half, an entertaining "black comedy". The idea of the devil taking over a shy, prudish girls body, and sending her into a frenzy of lust is pretty good. Unfortunately, once "The Chaser" appears to hunt down the devil, things rapidly deteriorate into "Three Stooges" slapstick. Character development is acceptable, and there is some sharp dialog. The opening and closing theme song is memorable, as is the long lasting image of a Nun firing a rocket launcher. In the end, the strong first half is enough to almost overcome the weak conclusion. - MERK

Firmly stuck somewhere between zero and shoestring budget, this prodution still manages to entertain. That's mainly thanks to a good basic idea and also a good script with some sitcomy situations. Sadly, this did lose a lot on its way to the little screen, thanks to bad actors and sloppy direction/editing. The low budget was not the problem here, someone should remake this script with actors who can deliver witty dialogue, and edit the thing with some comedy timing (the nuns with guns scnene should have been 20sec, max, fir nstance)

The 6/10 I rate this are rather generous and take the low budget into account, but the thing IS entertaining - I didn't feel the need to fast-forward more often than three or four times.

After buying this movie from a car-boot sale for £2 about 6 years ago, I've watched it so many times and found it even more funnier then next! It's like nothing else out there on the shelves. Maggies hair is hilarious, and Rocco's Girlfiend is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life! She plays the part so darn well (laughing to myself as I write this) And causes such an out burst when Rocco burst a balloon! She's a big part in this movie and I don't think it wouldn't have been the same with out her! If you see this movie on TV, she's the one in the yellow shorts with BIG blond hair! Absolutely HILARIOUS! In fact, I'm gonna go watch it now.... see ya! OHHHH LA LA LA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAAAA!

I recently viewed this movie. I was actually entertained throughout the movie. In the beginning it came close to it losing my interest, but if you have got nothing better to do. You'll want to stick around to see what happens, especially when the character chasing the devil comes into the plot. It's deffinetaly one of those crazy films kinda like beatle juice or even Little Monsters. The characters in this film are not well known, but their funny none the less, except for the two nerds they were more or less annoying. Overall would probably watch it again if there was absolutely nothing else on. There are very funny parts in the movie for example a part when the devil is walking down the street. It makes a baby jump out of a stroller and attack it's owner. Another would be when the devil starts to "sleep-around" and possess people. This is more of a comedy then an action or drama flick. It was enjoyed and would be watched again, but some of the characters lacked talent and some scenes were strange. For example when their driving. They are both not wearing seatbelts and the scenery around them does not look real and he barely looks like hes driving. It was clear the actors were more amateur, but still managed to put out a decent twisted comedy anyways.

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)

Are you kidding me? 2.5 star average? Perhaps Girlfriend from Hell is receiving ratings from people who only watch full cinematic comedies, perhaps I'm an old crony who still likes his films fun, but I've thought Girlfriend From Hell was great fun since I first saw it in the 90s.

A group of young adults attending a small birthday party are planning to set the debilitatingly shy Maggie up with Carl, a young man so shy he can barely talk without wanting to vomit from nerves. Things take a supernatural turn when the spirit of the devil enters Maggie's body while running from a pursuer, turning her into the life, and death, of the party. It's up to devil chaser to restore Maggie to normal and save her friends, but having the devil inside her for a day might be just what the doctor ordered for Maggie's crippling insecurity...

The Good: Dana Ashbrook and Liane Curtis steal the show. Ashbrook is a criminally underrated actor, made famous by Twin Peaks but really not showing up as often as he should, and rarely gets a chance to be funny like he was here. To me he'll always be Chaser. Liane Curtis, well, I've seen her in pretty much nothing else, maybe Critters 2, but she does a great job here. The soundtrack is great too, with a combination of pop-punk songs and chugging synths so representative of the tail-end of the 80s.

The Bad: The rest of the cast are pretty ho-hum. Other characters aren't fleshed out like Chaser and the devil are, and the majority of the film seems to take place within the same house party. The cartoonishly violent relationship between two supporting characters is hilarious, but the same joke is then transferred to Dana Ashbrook's character and another supporting character, the movie then overuses the same 'man does something perverted, woman responds with cartoon violence' joke lifted straight out of a Japanese anime.

The Straight-To-Video: The camera work, not that I noticed this in my teens, is typical of a straight-to-video film, essentially just pointing at what you need to see, without any particular effort to frame it well or achieve the right dramatic effect. At times it can give the feel of a home video. The special effects, while cheesy, are impressive for something with such a low budget, with appropriately some gory corpses and even a brief "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" moment using a giant cheese-puff. For a movie about a being chasing the devil herself (HERself) across time and space, it all seems quite small scale, really, with only a few locations in the film. The house, a restaurant, the street, and a short trip to a canyon is about as far as it goes.

Unfortunately, while this used to be a bargain for a cheap VHS, there is no DVD, so I can only recommend it to retro VHS aficionados, Dana Ashbrook fans, or those nostalgic for the original release. If you aren't still rocking the VHS, head to twisted danger dot net where they produce a DVD disk of the film.

Right, well as I sat down in 2022 to watch the 1989 horror comedy "Girlfriend from Hell", I must admit that this was the first time I had ever heard about it. I liked the movie's synopsis, as it sounded like it could be a fun, cheesy archetypical late 1980s teenage movie. So I sat down to watch writer and director Daniel Peterson's 1989 movie.

And this was both the first and last time to watch "Girlfriend from Hell". Why? Well, the movie just simply fell short of entertaining me. The storyline felt like a swing and a miss, and there wasn't much fun throughout the course of the story. Actually, I didn't even laugh a single time. And truth be told, then the storyline was rather mundane and boring in comparison to other late 1980s horror comedies.

There were two familiar faces in the movie, which were James Karen and Dana Ashbrook, and they weren't exactly the lead actors. So the movie was a gallery of unfamiliar faces on the screen, and that is actually something I enjoy in movies. It was just a shame that the actors and actresses in "Girlfriend from Hell" had next to nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline, characters and dialogue.

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a cheese-fest such as "Girlfriend from Hell".

My rating of "Girlfriend from Hell" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

They say that if you put a thousand monkeys on a typewriter for a thousand years, they would eventually write Shakespeare. In the case of this movie, I think they let 5 monkeys type for 5 minutes and out came the screenplay of this film. This movie is labelled as a comedy, but it seems like the director didn't get the joke. It seems like he actually tried to make this drivel into some type of serious film. This movie is a strong candidate for a future MST3K episode... The only positive thing I can say about this movie is that the soundtrack really rocks! In fact, you can't wait for the movie to end and hear that closing track....

Okay Oscar winning material this is not. But if you like movies that are so bad they're good...this is it. God's hit-man, a geeky looking guy who drinks and likes to womanize, chases the devil throughout eternity. In this movie the devil leaps into a wall flower of a girl named Maggie. The ensuing hilarity which ensues involves rocket launcher toting nuns, women constantly punching their boyfriends, a high speed car ride, and the stealing of men's souls through their...umm...just see the movie. Don't expect witty dialogue...this movie is definitely only for those who like bad movies. I enjoyed it but I've got weird tastes.

It's a good question why anybody would even care to start thinking of ever being willing to see something as remotely dope as a title belonging to any piece of trash art such as the medium of movies called 'girlfriend from hell' without wanting to be focused on the proof of the opposite of the evidence of your intelligence given by the choice of availability showing your true character in your preferences certainly and then what can one say if the movie turns out to bhave a nice beat on the music with one of those cool dudes from David Lynch's Twin Peaks coming here to debase himself not really in a bad role but in a negative performance thereof by which we can conclude that it's the fault of the director certainly as anybody could blame the poor guy's position on the chair... Would have been better with Linda Blair as the girlfriend from hell, but apparently she was too busy doing thing with her own crucifix. A film to be seen by the youngsters only and even in that case there are way better ones also more silly than this particular one here: in big letters, avoid if you can.

I was so happy when I heard this was going to be resurrected by Culture Shock Releasing. This is such an hilarious horror comedy, still completely 80's despite it's 1989 original release, it's totally 80's from the music to the clothes to the actors and performances. SO many hilarious scenes, from the demonic baby to the NUs with Guns scene which is my favorite gut buster. I love the cheesy storyline and the chemistry between all the actors just bleeds off the screen. You just can't watch this film without having a total blast.

Although some of these boutiques are nothing but greedy parasites taking advantage of desperate film collectors, there are some of them that actually care about resurrecting these films, remastering them and actually making print runs at decent prices to get them out to the masses. Hopefully Culture Shock will be one of the good ones if they can avoid the softcore pornish stuff and greedy practices like Vinegar Syndrome and it's ilk. This new 4K remaster bluray was a JOY to find and get in to my collection. It's a beautiful new transfer, with some awesome interviews in the extras. The film itself is just hilarious and cheesy in all the right self aware ways to make it a classic among stuff like Nail Gun Massacre, Gutterballs and other deep independent slices of historic B-Movie cheese.

If you are a collector or are into these types of fantastic film history slices the resurrection and remastering of this film is an awesome addition you should add to your collection. Perfect and tasty, check it out, and support physical media by grabbing you a copy for your collection.

this movie has always made me laugh out loud. i make all my friends watch it. some people might not enjoy it but i say anything that has nuns with guns in it is a riot. i own the vhs copy and hope that there will be a dvd version soon i have already wore out my vhs copy from watching it so much.

So funny. I always thought that the main character was very funny. I laughed when he kept on saying - - and there was God with those polaroids again. I always thought it was odd that she always wanted to dress in a devil costume. I think my friends have a new perspective on films. I swear I have made everyone I know watch it. Great movie. Like a B rated Horror Film. I love how the person who saves the day waits until almost 3/4 of the movie is over to ever appear. And the movie seems like he should have been the main character. A zapper that puts them at any place. I love that it is good (semi - good inventor...of a very much used product of today) vs. evil (semi - evil possessed devil woman who's in love with the good guy) who could go wrong? I can't wait until it goes on DVD. For extra features.

Yea... yea... I know its not a politically correct "I wanna change the world" movie.Nor...is it written by some Ivytower "I'm smarter than you" elite Hollywood snob writer/producer with a mega budget.Just because a movie is not pushing the latest agenda from some crybaby group doesn't make it trash.I myself found this movie to be very amusing and entertaining.I will admit I have a soft spot for corny, freespirted,funny,and happy go lucky movies from the 80's being I was was in my mid 20s in the late 80's.Unlike the movies that followed in the mid 90's. They are mostly dark and gloomy with dysfunctional prozac taking misfit freaks crying about something or acting like a reject hiphop simpleton punk losers with 50 word vocabularies portraying disgusting anti social behavior.Boys are portrayed as emasculated and girls are portrayed as trashy sluts who are smarter and just as strong as men.How PERVERTED !Good job feminist movement ! Little do you know but your perverted agenda has set the womens movement back!Now young girls are portrayed in movies acting like men !!!They have no self respect for themselves they deface their bodies "Trampstamps" They dress like cheap sluts on the corner. They sleep with whomever and speak like illiterate fools spewing vulgarities.So in other words they act like men.LOL Good job you demented angry fools!!! OK... back to the movie!This movie came out at a time when the political correct straight jacket was being thrust upon us by every intolerant whining group from A to Z. Just another reason why this movie was so funny by making fun of some of these soon to be ridiculous hot button gender issues to come in the loser mid 90's too the present.It's funny and sad that this goof ball movie that was pointing out and making fun of these issues is now reality.Just look at the foolishness on T.V.Women fighting fist to cuff with men.It's absolute perversion!Its the main reason I don't watch TV. I haven't in over five years.Total perverted trash oozing from the demented sewer pipe of Hollywood.OK...My mind needs a break from this insanity!I'm going to pop in Girlfriend from hell and laugh from start to finish.Oh yeah,even the closing credits of this movie are funny as all heck.Check them out sometime.

...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.

This movie is perhaps one of the worst acting examples ever,cheesy,silly,and and just all out bad acting.BUT! It is funny as hell.If it was remade with perhaps a better cast,and higher production values it might be a cult classic.If you liked Killer Klowns from Outer Space then you'll love this! Don't pass on it! Some of my favorite lines:Devil-"Say this wines a little dry.It's not his blood is it?", Devil-"So I said to Jesus if you wanna drag the crowds in you gotta spice up the act a little,instead of this the Mead shall inherit the earth,and that fan club he started for himself what does he call it? Christianity?", Chaser-"But he(god) had those damn Poloroids!"

Well... Girlfriend from hell is about a shy single soul called Maggie who just so happens to be set up by her friends for a birthday party. When the Devil is being chased by 'Chaser' it enters the body of little shy Maggie. Not so shy anyone, Maggie goes on the town with her friends to raise some hell and boy does she!!!

Some people may be off put by the first scene which happens to be worse the 'The Blob's' first scene.

Every single person in the film is wonderful and I'm sure that you will laugh out aloud at this one, even if you don't want to.

Nuns with guns... Killer lobsters... steering wheel jams... blow jobs from hell... five wrapped sweaters... a cake... And for god sake... When invited to a birthday party of Rocko's, DO NOT burst a balloon.

The woman playing Rocko's girlfriend is the highlight of this film. She makes me smile and laugh just from looking at her doing nothing! For example, when Rocko burst a balloon....

"WHAT did you do that for...?" "It was a stupid balloon!" "It wasn't just a stupid balloon, it was one of your birthday balloons I spent a very long time blowing up..!" (KICKS HIM IN THE FACE)

FANTASTIC, HILARIOUS COMEDY THAT IS VERY WELL DONE... LOOK OUT FOR THE SCENE WITH THE VASE!

I love this movie. I remember when it came out on VHS back in the late 80s. It has actors that I have followed over the year. Leslie Deane was in "Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare" And Dana Ashbrook from my favorite TV show "Twin Peaks." This move is not meant to be taken seriously; it is so funny. The lead actress is the best part of the film. The supporting characters are also great! Just give the movie a chance and watch it with an open mind. Hell, watch while you're drinking you will love it! I found it on DVD and I watch a couple times a week because it make sme and my friends laugh! JUST watch it!

Evil girlfriends... Nuns with rocket launchers... A guy girls keep trying to kill even though he's undead. Even the food attacking people was an uplifting sight. A true cult classic in the poorist form. I found this movie irrelevant and enlightening.

My review was written in September 1990 after watching the movie on IVE video cassette.

"Girlfriend from Hell" is a genuinely funny horror picture that was released direct-to-video in July. It deserves some theatrical play, perhaps in a midnight slot.

Premise is that plain-Jane Maggie (Liane Curtis) is possessed by the devil while en route to a birthday party. The devil, posited as a female entity here, jazzes up Maggies' body and personality, turning her into a sort of youthful Elvira.

Complications accelerate among Maggie's circle of friends with the added touch

of her sucking the life out of various guys (fortunately it's reversible). In pursuit is the femme devil's former boyfriend Chaser (Dana Ashbrook of "Twin Peaks") who' been pursuing her for hundreds of years.

Filmmaker Daniel M. Peterson's lighthearted screenplay mixes effective gags and one-liners, with some okay in-jokes. At one point Ashbrook refers to James Daughton as "that blond guy from 'Animal House'"), an out-of-character reference to the alumnus of the John Belushi pic.

Curtis does a fine job in the title role, handling the transition from mousy to mean with aplomb. Youthful cast includes Robert Morse's daughter Hilary in her screen debut as one of Maggie's pals.

Special effects are okay for a low-budget effort. Rock music score is a plus for the target audience.