The Halfway House: The Spanking Priest and the Sister of Secrets
Take the spirit of an old-time women’s prison picture, a lot of HOT babes whose boobs often get exposed, lesbian sex scenes both nasty and nice, a creepy Catholic “home†for at-risk young ladies, a priest who loves to punish with a paddle, mix in H.P. Lovecraft and a one-eyed, many-tentacled monster, add a dash of cloak-and-dagger and what do you have? The Halfway House, an outrageously campy horror comedy with an unabashed erotic spin that was written and directed by Kenneth J. Hall.
Young women have been disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls. Determined to find out what became of her vanished sister, lovely Larissa Morgan, played with equal parts earnestness and good humor by Janet Tracy Keijser, goes to the police. She finds an irritatingly lackadaisical Lt. Hinds (Michael Gaglio), who seems more interested in remarking on missing women’s “tits†and “ass†than finding them. His assistant, the aptly named Sgt. Dick Sheen (Shawn Savage), is a bit more dedicated but equally horny and far more attractive to Larissa. He soon becomes her lover as well as her investigatory partner. Over his objection, Larissa insists on going undercover into the Halfway House.
Then the fun really begins as Larissa encounters the odd Sister Ceclia, played with appropriate eeriness by Mary Woronov and her ogling sidekick, a cloddish yet menacing janitor named Lutkus (Cleve Hall). She finds herself threatened by some of the tough, ostentatiously carnal young women at the home and attracted to the more vulnerable of the wayward beauties.
Larissa also encounters Father Fogerty, a graying priest played to over-the-top perfection by handsome Joseph Tatner. A hard-core spanking aficionado, this priest never misses a chance to make an erring young woman pull her skirt up, her panties down, and bend over his desk so he can apply a paddle or whip to her bottom. Tatner always has a gleam in his eye and a suitably lugubrious smile as he pinkens some round and pretty bare butts.
This movie is a fantastic high-spirited entertainment. Break out the beer (or soft drinks), put a bowl of popcorn on your lap, pop in The Halfway House and have a marvelous time.
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November 1st, 2008 at 3:10 am
“Put a bowl of popcorn on your lap”? Only you and those chaps who can spin plates atop a pole will manage that, Denise. I think you need to do a bit of penance after that review. You enjoyed it altogether too much.
So did I.