How sad is this?

Good movie but grossly overrated

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Candy Stripers is just plain horrible, and not in a scary way, even by B-movie or Z-movie standards. In case you were curious, the title refers to the female hospital volunteers in the US that wore white uniforms with red stripes. With a title like that, you would expect some stripping and nudity, there's not much of it here on display except a couple of quick breast shots, nothing really past the half-way point. It feels and plays like a cheap TV show with an extremely low budget, kind of a B-movie Goosebumps for teens. It takes place mostly in a hospital slowly being "overrun" by sexually aggressive women possessed by slugs. I actually make it sound better than it is.The writing is lame, the dialogue is cliché, and it doesn't even have those wonderfully corny one-liners you usually get in that type of movie. The acting is laughable and doesn't even reach TV soap quality, which would have been nice here actually. Worse, you have 2 of the main guys, supposedly teenagers, that are balding. The special effects are pathetic, and not even funny pathetic, just cheap-looking and bad (especially the distortion CGI effect when the "creatures" die). The suspense and enjoyment are non-existent, and the movie felt twice as long as it actually is. And this is from someone who usually enjoys those kind of movies as long as there's some cleverness, enthusiasm and talent behind it. This review is already too long for such a piece of manure. Don't get suckered by the cover art. Don't expect good titillation, gore or fun. Don't pay for it, don't even watch it for free. If you already did, then you now understand what I meant. You want something good in the same vein, rent Lesbian Vampire Killers instead.

Three libidinous and predatory aliens take on the enticing forms of a trio of candy stripers at a hospital in a small California town. The gals are looking for guys to use as breeders in order to produce more of their nefarious species and take over our planet. It's up to a handful of resourceful teenagers to thwart the lovely, but lethal ladies before it's too late. Director/co-writer Kate Robbins whips up an entertaining schlockoid straight-to-video romps that hits all the necessary pleasingly trashy bases: there's a decent smattering of tasty gratuitous female nudity, groovy bits of over-the-top gore, a few pretty hot and fairly raunchy sex scenes, a steady pace, tacky (not so) special effects, and some neat offbeat touches (the evil extraterrestrial babes pig out on sugary sweets and can be killed with insulin!). This movie starts out a bit slow, but picks up energy and becomes more increasingly daft in its gloriously ridiculous second half. The cheerfully pulpy Grade B sensibility at work throughout further adds to the infectiously inane fun. The acceptable acting from the competent rates as another plus, with especially solid work from Brian Lloyd as likable nice guy basketball player Matt, Tori White as spunky diabetic Cherie, Nicole Rayburn as snotty cheerleader Krystal, William Edwards Jr. as the infected Joey, and Kevin Thomas Fee as macho meathead Brian. The ravishing Deanna Brooks, the luscious Serria Tawan, and the yummy Eliza Swenson are all quite sexy and delectable as the titular deadly, yet desirable outer space foxes. Geoffrey Schaef's crisp cinematography makes funky occasional use of strenuous slow motion. Patrick Brocca's spirited shuddery score hits the shivery spot. A deliciously cheesy hoot and a half.

I knew from the DVD box art that I was in for a roller-coaster of pure, unadulterated abysmal acting and terrible special effects, but the promise of bare skin held my interest (somewhat).It's true, you take what you get with these 'films' and since I didn't hear any Oscar nods for 'Candy Stripers' I figured that this made-for-video horror fest was worth at least the $1.98 I paid to rent it. Do you ever wish you had your $1.98 back? The DVD promising voluptuous beauties panned out to an extent, but for all the nudity the former Playmates involved in this venture had done in their previous line of work, the 'adult activity' was lukewarm at best. It's not like anyone renting this thing didn't see the obvious tie-ins with sex, etc. and were instead renting it for the star power backing this project. Renters of this film asked for the nudity, gore and violence and instead were introduced with a flaccid production and really limp acting and storyline. I don't know why producers feel that because they have no budget that everything must suffer.SPOILERS AHEAD... SAVE YOUR $1.98 on a half gallon of gas...So what's the plot? OK... Aliens come to earth and infest 'beautiful' young candy striper's (hence the title) at a small hospital with the intent on breeding with every man in site in a plot to take over the earth. Anyway, the candy striper's have some kind of parasitic worm that breeds inside them and then they orally pass it along to other females (sounds promising? it's not). The whole hospital becomes infected and is quarantined with an 'unknown' virus. Did I mention that there's some dumb teenage jocks involved? In the end the infected females are killed by insulin injections because it seems like they have an overwhelming lust for not only breeding with the locals, they also LOVE sugar. One of the heroines of the film is diabetic and discovers that when she 'accidentally' injected one of the infected females that attacked her the people responsible for the post-production add-ons tack on some very, very cheap wave lens effects to the aliens and then they die. The heroes of the movie blow up the hospital in order to destroy the aliens and all those infected, but of course the ending is left wide-open for a sequel.I'm pretty sure there are much better "I'm here to breed with your men to take over the planet" plot lines out there... oh yeah... Species I, II and III.

To start off with i'm not a huge fan of these types of horror movies so it didn't have a huge appeal from the start. It was however a decent movie to watch if you like these body invading types of movies. I do feel that they could have figured out a better way to make the "alien" moves from body to body. I'm assuming they were trying to go as disgusting as possible. Some of the scenes in the film didn't make a whole lot of sense. You have to basically overlook the huge gaps in the storyline if you want to enjoy it. If of course your interested in watching a movie containing 90% "hot" women bearing their breasts then this is the movie for you, it does not lack in that department. I however am not one to look for that in a film so it held no appeal for me in that regard, so I had to stick with the sketchy storyline. Overall it was worth watching if your a hard core horror movie watcher, but certainly not a top pick when you have a selection of horror movies to choose from.