Perfect cast and a good story

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The worst movie I've seen in years, maybe centuries. I missed this ludicrous trash in 19 and 73 because it looked dopey. I have not gotten much wiser; I watched SSFG a few days ago, and I found out I had made the right call way back yonder. There is simply nothing to praise in this 75 minutes of idiot plotting and performance. I couldn't even pay attention to the lovely Kate Jackson because I my eyes had dried out from staring at the perfectly formed cinematic turd. I did not blink lest I miss something new in stupidity on my screen--re--tablet.This is 2016, right? Iv'e got some wising up to do.

Poor Terry Lumley. Driving around in a frantic state, trying to reach her sister by phone, and feeling like she's being stalked like some rat caught in a trap with a cat lurking nearby. Approached by some unseen creature of darkness, she begins to scream, and all of a sudden, she turns into what looks like a Dali painting, her thin face becoming as equally horrific as the fate she is about to meet. This sets up the rest of this somewhat silly 1970's T.V. movie which has a cult following and includes such familiar faces as Pamela Franklin (as the poor victim's sister), Kate Jackson (as a student who becomes Franklin's pal when she enrolls to try and find out what happened to her sister), Roy Thinnes (as a new wave thinker and art professor), Lloyd Bochner (as another eccentric professor), and in a rather campy part, Oscar Winner Joy Van Fleet as the headmistress nicknamed "The Dragon Lady". Van Fleet isn't exactly a dragon lady; In fact, she seems an unwilling participant in the mayhem and macabre goings on, and having given a few camp performances, she is far from as melodramatic as some of those past performances. Certainly, something terrible is going on in the school as half a dozen girls are found dead in the sinister looking basement, and nobody can figure out why, whether it was suicide or murder, and if murder, what kind of motive lead to it. To be honest, I frankly found it dull, and having seen it years ago at a more impressionable age, it doesn't hold up all that well. Many T.V. movies did better jobs with equally horrific tales, most memorably "The Devil's Daughter" and "The Initiation of Sarah", but frankly, they are all rip-offs of "Rosemary's Baby".

I've got no spoilers here, the movie is already spoiled.A fairly standard, run-of-the-mill, sexy-70s-chicks whodunit. And who dun it this time? Satan, of course. Says so in the title.Funny thing about movie titles, they often either intentionally mislead you or they give you the mega-spoiler straight away. Why this title was chosen, I really don't understand, because with a non-Satanic title the end-twist would have been a genuine surprise.The spoiler-title as a means to get you to buy the ticket - only to realize you'd been cheated out of an end-twist for the exact same reason why you paid for the ticket in the first place. Talk about irony. Except that, of course, this is a TV movie hence there is no ticket to sell. But whether TV or big-screen, the goal is the same, and the same effect of not offering the viewer that much in the "grand finale".A few suggestions: "The Horror-Ridden School For Girls", "The Girls That A Person Whose Name Begins With 'S' Likes To Mess With", "The Weird School For Girls That Might Be Dabbling With Things That Girls Would Normally Not Dabble With", "The Girls, Their School, & A Man Whose Name Is Similar To 'Stan'". Etc. All those titles are spoiler-free.Two-thirds of the original "Charley's Angels" are in this one (the cute blond and the forgettable gangly brunette). This might give you some indication of the cheese levels in SSFG.However, some types of movie cheese can be enjoyed. SSFG has that nice 70s feel, an attractive cast of females, and it runs under 90 minutes. Last but not least, it has Pamela Franklin, and that alone is reason enough to throw a glance at this obscurity. For some reason they cut her hair very short for the role, AND she didn't take her clothes off, but you can't have everything.

This is another movie which I have looked for over the years to see on latenight channels but is no longer available I believe. I really liked this because it had an overall scary plot running throughout the movie. Both of my kids, (Nate and Ryann like these types of movies and they are at the right age to spot good quality. I hope if anyone knows if this is still being shown around the country to let me know because I can't find it for anything. If you get a change to watch it, by all means do so. It will not let you down and is a little above a B grade movie. Look at how young all the pre Charlie's Angels are in this flick... Enjoy!