Girlfriend From Hell
Director: Dan Peterson
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
Year: 1989
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Dana Ashbrook, Alba Francesca, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Lezlie Deane, James Daughton, Anthony Barrile, Ken Abraham, Sarah Kaite Coughlan, Hilary Morse, Brad Zutaut, James Karen, Renee Wayne Golden, Laura Bruneau, Kim North, Susan Rome
Girlfriend From Hell is a 1989 comedy/horror B-movie starring actor Dana Ashbrook of Twin Peaks fame, and Liane Curtis of Sixteen Candles, as well as several B-movies of the 1980s. Directed by Dan Peterson. The film has achieved as a small cult following (thanks to repeated screenings of the film on Comedy Central in the 1990s), and has even spawned a stage musical adaptation.
The film, a tongue-in-cheek satire of typical teen horror and sex comedies, chronicles a high school party where all Hell breaks loose, literally. In this case, the devil has taken over (and consequently vamped up) the body of a nerdy, socially awkward young woman attending the party.
Lions Gate has yet to announce any plans to release the film onto DVD.
In early 2011, playwright/composer Sean Matthew Whiteford adapted the film into a stage musical. The pop-rock musical features 17 original songs, a revamped storyline, while still using several of the original film's characters, and using the film's release date year, 1989, as the year the show is set in. The show opens for a test run at The Gene Frankel Theatre in NYC on July 21. The original Off-Off Broadway cast includes Melissa Matthews as Maggie (the
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