Having just re-watched "Little Witches", I was disappointed. It's nowhere near as good as I remembered.
Of course, I mostly remembered the nudity, which the movie well-advisedly does not skimp on. But it's not a softcore flick, so there is an attempt at plot... an attempt which absolutely fails.
Other than the basic set-up which can probably be gleaned from looking at the DVD box - that is, a group of Catholic schoolgirls get involved in "witchcraft" - I don't know what the movie was about. There is something about hunky construction workers on the school grounds who dig up a corpse or a relic or something and the girls use the dig site in their rites. Also, predictably, the sexpot schoolgirl goes evil and the goody-two-shoes girl goes heroic in the end.
The acting in the movie is better than it really deserves. In particular, Mimi Rose, who plays the good girl, makes her into a character you can believe in, and there seems to be more going on behind the bad girl's performance than just going through the motions. The movie also has legendary character actors Jack Nance and Zelda Rubinstein but doesn't benefit that much from their appearance other than a couple of good scenes. Rubinstein only does one scene. She was an actress with a unique and powerful presence who added an pearl of strangeness to every movie she appeared in. If they had made her, say, the principal of the school and had her appear in multiple scenes in the movie, that could have established an atmosphere that would have suited the movie's try-hard spooky hijinks. It may even have elevated them to something the audience might have cared about.
The music, also, is terrible b-movie synth slop, overbearing from beginning to end, and headache inducing.
I'm not sure why I liked this one so much the first time around. I'm watching the final scene right now and I don't even know what's happening. I didn't care enough to try to follow the plot.
