Jennifer is a teenager from West Virginia who works with her Bible-quotin' papa in his pet store and attends an elite all-girl boarding school on scholarship (the rich, pampered girls call her "skag" and "hayseed"). When the leader of the popular clique gets caught cheating on a test, she blames innocent Jennifer, who defends herself but gets into trouble anyway. These kids--and the pill-popping, money-grubbing school matriarch--really have in for Jennifer, unaware that as a child she performed in tent-revival meetings as the girl who could communicate with snakes and make them do her bidding. Screenwriter Kay Cousins Johnson, working from a story by Steve Krantz (who also produced), is responsible for this shameless repeat of "Carrie"--and not even an effective one, as telekinesis is a far more showy display of psychic power than having snakes slithering along the pavement or on the hood of a car. With a handful of TV-movies already mining the "Carrie" vault ("The Spell", "The Initiation of Sarah"), a theatrical retread of the same scenario seemed like a backwards step, and audiences stayed away. Lisa Pelikan has the lead (she was the young Vanessa Redgrave in "Julia" the year before); she has beautiful red hair and green eyes, but no screen presence. She's asked to stand-in for Sissy Spacek, though she looks much more like a teen-version of Piper Laurie in her high-necked white nightgown. Mild "product" from AIP at least gave work to several veteran actors, including Bert Convy, Jeff Corey, Nina Foch and John Gavin. * from ****

There are a lot of similarities between Carrie and Jennifer (over-religious single parent, school snobbery, pent up anger sparking supernatural revenge, and I guess even at one point toward the end having Jennifer looking remarkably similar to Margaret White at the end of Carrie). Jennifer's power involves control over snakes, whereas Carrie had control over practically everything.Jennifer is played by Lisa Peliken, who is excellent in this. She gets a scholarship to a ritzy school, and her poor background and lack of wealth make her an easy target. She almost instantly gets on the bad side of the biggest clique in the school, led by Chris Hargensen-like Sandra. The special effects (especially a giant snake) are poor, but it is a fun, dated movie to watch.

This Is one belter, of a film. I have just watched this video. I thought that Sandra Trmayne, was a rich spoilt brat, who thought she ruled the school. And her Principal was bribed by huge cheques for $1,00000 to keep her there. Then Jennifer came along, Just a red headed brunette Girl, of a poor background, Who I thought was very pretty! and down to earth. her father encouraged her to use the power from the night! Sandra was not happy, unless the other girls obeyed her,I would of said "Just who do you think you are??" You are not in charge!One quote in this film holds true, beware the mask of beauty, Do Not trust Anyone! I did not like the way Sandra treat Jane, just because she did not do as she was told. After one prank too many, Jennifer then asked for the power and strength to be given to her, She put her hands into a box of deadly snakes, and when Sandra and the team kidnapped her that night in the boot of the car, I recognised the music used it was Toccata Also Sandra was not paying any attention to her teacher, she was sex obsessed all the time, this I would of found totally unacceptable. While Jenny was becoming a nice Girl and very bright! despite being poor. I liked the little kitten, but it met a sad demise, I know that Jenny did not do it. I am going to rate this film very high 10/10 I have had this video laying under my bed for ages. I am glad I dug it out, as there was nothing on telly.

*****POSSIBLE SPOILERS***** I just have a fondness for cheesy horror movies, plain and simple. I saw this movie at a drive-in not long after it was released, and at the time not even being a teenager yet, it scared the heck out of me. Since the advent of vcr's I had been looking for this film to see if it was truly the frightening film I remembered it to be. I never could find it in any video store, but I finally found it on sale on the internet so I bought it. It's kind of typical for that era, a loner being picked on by the rich kids,etc. But it's a fun film and I'm glad I finally found a copy of it. It is very similar to the film Carrie as others have mentioned, but it doesn't quite have the punch of the Stephen King classic. Since I have studied Herpetology(the study of reptiles and amphibians) for many years, the films use of non-poisonous snakes and trying to pass them off as rattlesnakes was quite funny. The big snake at the end was indeed laughable, but if someone didn't have knowledge of these things it would be believable, I guess. Like I said earlier,cheesy but fun, just the way I like it!