B-grade thriller has a bizarre sisterhood initiation that involves a Russian roulette round that ends in tragedy when one of the débutantes is executed. Seven years later the surviving members are summoned to a reunion at an isolated mansion. Despite the welcoming party, they soon discover that the fun and games are just beginning, and they're unlikely to ever leave.Paul Carr and Joe E.Tata co-star as a pair of hired chauffeurs who inadvertently become stranded with the girls when the fence surrounding the compound is electrified; Tata went on to become a minor celebrity of sorts twenty years later in "Beverly Hills 90210". Playboy playmate, Clauida Jennings is 'ample' in her leading role, but she's somewhat overshadowed by her co-stars Boucher (a one-time Mrs George Peppard) and Howell in particular. Veteran Arthur Franz acts with restraint, though his role is largely confined to peering through door cracks, and making homemade bullets for his gatling gun.Mildly suspenseful with a couple of chuckles, the plot contrivances are weak and the pace laboured for the lack of material, but still, there's an undeniable b-movie quality that prevails. If you're not too discerning and are familiar with the cast, you should find enough here to keep you entertained.

In a plot borrowed very liberally from Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Arthur Franz invites five women who took part in a sorority initiation that killed his daughter Elizabeth Bergen to be his guests at a weekend retreat. The young girl was killed during a game of Russian Roulette that was ruled accidental. But Franz doesn't believe it and has a weekend of fun and games for the sisters.Two men who were paid to deliver the sisters to Franz's home, Paul Carr and Joe E. Tata, invite themselves to the party thinking they could score with one of them. The five girls Claudia Jennings, Cheri Howell, Sherry Boucher, Sherry Alberoni, and Roxanne Albee are certainly enough to give any red blooded guy a reason to hang around. Of course they regret that soon enough.The bodies start to fall, the screaming gets louder and louder, almost like it's a contest to see which of them screams the loudest. The end of this film is totally bizarre and comes from out of the ballpark let alone left field.The girls in skimpy outfits are the only reason I can think of to watch this film.

The low-key "Sisters of Death" has an opening that reminded me of the Omega initiation scene in "Animal House", and from there becomes a typical slasher flick...lacking any full-frontal nudity! Seven years after a young woman got killed at the initiation, the others get letters summoning them to a remote motel where the killing starts in revenge for the death years before.The only cast member whom I recognized was Claudia Jennings. She was a former Playmate of the Year. After starring in a few movies (I've also seen "Gator Bait"), she was killed in a car accident in 1979. Basically, her career got cut short just when she might have had the chance to start making serious movies. So while it's too bad that she only starred in these kinds of flicks, they're still worth seeing. Among other things, I consider this a more interesting movie than "White Christmas" or "The King and I".

Years after a pledge is accidentally killed in an initiation ceremony, the unrepentant and generally unsympathetic sorority sisters are called to a reunion at a remote house where they find themselves locked in by an electric fence and stalked by a killer. The identity and motive of the killer is pretty predictable, but there's still some unexpected surprises regarding his possible accomplice. This movie generally has a bad reputation, but I kind of liked it. The revenge-for-a-fraternity/sorority-prank-gone-wrong is a hoary old cliché in horror movies nowadays but it was pretty original back in 1972 when this movie was made. Similarly the fake class reunion plot was used in many other horror movies in subsequent years, some better ("The Redeemer"), some worse ("Slaughter High"). And it was even parodied at least once (in "National Lampoon's Class Reunion").The movie also features an early starring role for drive-in queen Claudia Jennings. Jennings is less experienced (albeit also less drug-addled) than she would be in her later roles, and some will no doubt be disappointed that she doesn't take her clothes off. As a general rule it is a bad idea to cast a Playboy Playmate in a lead role and not have her undress (witness "Barb-wire" with Pamela Anderson or ANY movie with Jenny McCarthy). But while Jennings may have been well above average relative to other Playmates when it came to her naked charms, she was in a class by herself when it came to acting talent (with Shannon Tweed maybe a very distant second). She was probably the only Playmate in history who could have made it as a successful actress WITHOUT having been a Playmate. She's definitely the best thing in this movie as she is the ONLY remotely sympathetic potential victim.The one thing I didn't like about this movie was that it was more in the style of an action movie than a horror movie (it takes place almost entirely in daylight, for instance). It kind of reminded of those stupid female action movies they make today for emasculated fanboys where 105 lb. fashion models go around wielding guns and beating everybody up. But this was the 1970's when feminism was still pretty feminine, and Jennings was one of the few actresses who was always believable in these scrappy roles. Sure this movie could have used some full-frontal nudity, but it's still pretty decent.