Review of Maniac Nurses (1992) by Gil R — 13 Mar 2010

When you come across a movie called "Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy", how can you NOT watch it? Especially when it's only an hour and five minutes long. The film is a Romanian import that found limited distribution in the states through Troma Entertainment (and it is also considered to be Bloodsucking Freaks II).

It's hilariously dubbed over, seeming like it was less translated into English than it was rewritten to lip-sync better with the actors. I don't even know if the narration was made up for the American release.

But it was a great idea, because it adds so much and many of the laughs come from it. The best thing about the movie is that it is extremely perverse and gory, yet takes itself so seriously that it becomes unintentionally funny in effect.

The story follows a hospital full of sadomasochistic lesbian nurses, who capture victims for severe medical torture and sick sexual pleasure. Often, they will trick roadside travelers, shoot the husband in the head, and abduct the wife.

Some abductees might be kept to be taught the ways of the science of medicine and trained in the art of combining sex with death, others end up in fatal surgery to become living dolls; playthings for sexual pleasure.

And as a bonus for straight men and lesbians alike, the Romanian babes in this film are against wearing shirts as much as Matthew McCoughnahey. The film is basically torture porn with deranged lesbians trying to find the height of sexual ecstasy.

It is also at the same time very empowering for women, who are superior to men in every way in this. Although wildly engaging, the second act seems to fail at continuing the momentum they took so long to establish in the first act with the wildly entertaining narrative and set-up.

Instead the focus shifts to the nurses hunting down 4 campers nearby, with an arsenal of shotguns, machine guns, and butcher's knives. Sadly, this takes up the last half-hour of the film, after so much had happened in the first half-hour.

It is hinted at and later revealed that the militant lesbian head mistresses daughter is the most crazed of the bunch. In possibly the most hilarious scene - her firstborn was a boy born with an Elvis tattoo and hence murdered for being an aberration.

The daughter grows up, and instead of meeting nice boys, she must "live with the masochistic obsession of older women." Also, it's hilarious how the male groundskeeper, in charge of tending to the ground's numerous garden gnomes, will be cut to every once in awhile to say things like "Maniacs.

Sick." or â??Sex crazed sadists.â??, as if to remind you of what the movie you are watching is about. Definitely check this one out. Oh yeah, theyâ??re cannibals too. Win, win, and win.