In 1985, Rebecca, a maid working at the Greer mansion as well as living there with her two young daughters, Ivy & Violet, is caught by Ivan Greer having sex with the pool cleaner. But Ivan's wife mistakes this for an affair between Ivan & Rebecca. The maid & her daughters are soon evicted from the mansion. A decade later, Violet returns to the Greer home, where the Greer's now adult daughter Joy is living with her widowed father & a surly housemaid. At first, the Greers welcome Violet to stay with them, but Violet is just like her late sister Ivy – a stone cold seductress who works as a dominatrix in her spare time & who wants revenge against the Greers for her mother & sister. Using her expert manipulation skills, Violet seduces both Ivan & Joy's fiancée Michael.The original Poison Ivy was a lightweight softcore thriller that found a massive cult audience on video & late-night cable television, successful enough to kick start the softcore erotic thriller trend of the 1990s. Which is somewhat surprising for this reviewer since the film was nothing more than bubblegum erotica that made a fair amount of pretence to be more than a slim tale of a young woman seducing her way & ultimately destroying the rich family she initially befriends. It was not a bad film but not particularly good either. While it may not have been anything special (passable at best), it did spawn three sequels.Poison Ivy: The New Seduction is the second of these three sequels. The first sequel was nothing to do with the story of the original, instead being a flimsy piece of drama, this one manages to tie in the story of the original with a new story for this entry (although I found it somewhat dubious that the name of Drew Barrymore's character here named Ivy as she was in the original, were it not for the fact that the name was given by her friend), having a similar plot with a young woman tearing apart a rich family mainly by seducing the father & killing anyone who interferes with her plan.The big difference between the original & the sequels is that the basic setup of the first film was never going to open the doors for the sequels to exist. But Karen Kelly writes a story that is more of a remake of the original, only with the one thing that the original Poison Ivy lacked for its seductress – motivation. In the original, Drew Barrymore's character had no reason to do what she did. Here, the reason is given, with Ivy & Violet's mother expelled from their mansion for a misunderstanding (& an uncontrollable sex drive, something the daughters inherited). The film also has a higher bodycount & Jaime Pressly's character of Violet is a much more hardened soul than her sister, easily donning dominatrix garb & even boasting to one victim that one of her clients includes a judge. This film's story is considerably better handled & more hardcore than the original, although it still pales in comparison to the flood of erotic thrillers that came out during the decade.Which brings us to the $32,000 question – how's the skin? Well, Jaime Pressly has ample moments to show off her breasts & butt but the actual love scenes are glossed over & hardly seen. The only exception is the first one between Athena Massey & the pool cleaner. While not a remarkable film in any aspect & definitely going to be seen as a classic, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction is an interesting film that has enough T&A to satisfy those who like this sort of film genre.

Better than the second one, not quite as good as the original. Although, it WAS a valiant effort.Even though this was Jaime Pressly's fourth movie in 1997, it was her first in a lead role, thus she earned an introduction in this film.This one tried to utilize two aspects of the first two movies: drama / suspense from the first, and nudity / sex scenes from the second. Surprisingly, they managed to pull it off. However, this was more of a soft-core porn movie than a suspense / drama / thriller...every time they shot a sex scene, crappy music started playing at twice the volume of the rest of the movie. Not exactly an enjoyable experience.Additionally, this one actually tries to tie itself into the original...several scenes are linked to the original Ivy. Nice touch, in my opinion. This would have made a much better follow-up to the original than "Lily" did.And if you fantasize about Jaime Pressly, you'll like this one, despite her mediocre acting ability...she's nude quite often, and wears several different dominatrix outfits.

Well I watched and reviewed the first two films in this series, so I figured what the hell, I'll just finish the trilogy up. Jaime Pressly stars as Violent, a teenage vixen who feeling betrayed that her mother (who was also this family's maid) was fired for having an affair with the father , a decade or so later decides to move in with the family who 'wronged' her mom and proceeds to use her best asset, her body, to get revenge. Is this film good in a conventional sense? Nope. Artistically? Haha not at all. In fact the only true reason to see this is Jaime Pressley herself, who ups the T7A quotient exponentially.Eye Candy: Athena Massey gets topless once; Jaime Pressly shows hers multiple times and her ass once.My Grade: C Where i saw it: Thriller Max

I know, the road to stardom is littered with the corpses of unfulfilled potential, but I am going to go with this one. Jaime Pressley has what it takes to make it really big--we're talking superstar. She's got that exotic face, killer body, and can act, but not so well that it will get in the way of her sexuality.Her performance here shows that we have a seductress with a capital "S".I really hope she gets her really, really big break. If not, she already has this film as a legacy.