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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Leofwine_draca Although I've heard a lot about the films of cult director Ted V. Mikels over the years, I'm not sure I've actually sat down and watched any of his work - until now, at least. Having just endured the cinematic mess that is BLOOD ORGY OF THE SHE-DEVILS, I suspect that his career is based on a string of classic exploitation titles that the reality of the movies themselves can't hope to match.Certainly BLOOD ORGY OF THE SHE-DEVILS is nothing like it sounds as a movie. Incredibly this film earned an 18 certificate here in the UK, even though there are only two or three mildly violent scenes in the whole thing and the American rating was PG. However it stands, this is a low budget mess of a film, in which very little happens. Mikels seems to be going for a pseudo-documentary approach at times, having a greybeard professor narrating various 'facts' about witchcraft to his assembled audience, which makes for exceptionally boring viewing.The 'horror' comes from a couple of black mass sequences that are full of alternate chanting and screaming, although they're filmed in such a way that's completely devoid of excitement, danger, or horror. Mikels is clearly hoping to emulate some of the exploitational 'witch finder' films made a few years previously, particularly MARK OF THE DEVIL, with a couple of moments of tame witch torture, but the histrionic acting and extremely low production values render such moments laughable rather than horrifying.

MartinHafer I sought out this film because I recently have been trying to get hold of the films of the worst film directors in history. Ted V. Mikels and his films rank up there with the worst directors of the 60s and 70s. Hershell Gordon Lewis, Al Adamson and Larry Buchanan all are in the same pantheon of badness as Mikels, as all these men have a long string up ultra low-budget and dreadful films--and most not only directed their films, but wrote and produced them as well. Which of these is the worst? Well, it's hard to say but with Mikels films such as THE CORPSE GRINDERS and THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES, it's obvious he's well in the running!Well, I was not disappointed. When the film began, a priestess was doing some sort of past life regression mumbo-jumbo. While a dumb idea to begin with, her horrible acting really made every scene she was in worth while. While this lady was a formidable witch, she certainly was NOT a formidable actress! Despite her inability to speak in any sort of a normal fashion (mostly, she screams or reads her lines very, very slowly), I must admit that some of her black magic was pretty cool--especially the fire ants and the voodoo doll bit...nice.The next portion of the film is pretty goofy. It consists of lots of vignettes involving people being tortured and killed for supposed witchcraft. This came by the witch doing a past life regression with one of her young followers--who was killed repeatedly in past lives. My favorite of this involved some bishop or other top church official exhorting his followers (some of which were in period costumes, some of which were in clothes circa 1972) to "stone her". He looked like some jerk off the street and the scene was done in a silly manner--as the folks dropped lots of fake rocks on a woman. There's more to the film than this, including some more past life regressions, some more cult mumbo-jumbo and overacting. However, the worst of it is the ending, which you just have to see to believe.Overall, a truly stupid and amazingly overacted film. Listening to the witch/priestess shriek and watching the dreadful "sexy dancing"(?) of the cult members is something you won't soon forget...no matter how hard you try!! Dumb from start to finish. Amazingly, this is definitely NOT Mikels' worst film! However, it sure tried! "Pscyhometrizing"?!?!

Witchfinder General 666 "Blood Orgy Of The She Devils" - an awesome title, that raises hopes for an ultra-sleazy and gory 70s Explotitation effort full of gratuitous female nudity, chopped off limbs etc. Unfortunately Ted V. Mikels' film, which is nonetheless slightly entertaining for its trashiness, is a very tame, and often boring yawner, that does not nearly come up to what the title promises. As it often was the case with films with an extremely low budget, this was given a title that has little to nothing to do with the actual film in order to lure viewers into theaters. The film itself is an absolutely ridiculous mess, but even though often too boring, it has its amusing moments. The film has a ridiculous and confused plot dealing with witchcraft, which revolves around an occult voodoo circle lead by a witch named Mara. Mara has supernatural powers which she can use to communicate with the dead as well as for other black magic purposes. When she includes a pretty young woman in her unholy circle, the girl's boyfriend and best friend consider a doctor who is an expert for the occult. The doctor, basically the hero of the film, is constantly talking in 'sophisticated' nonsensical phrases about witchcraft. The performances are terrible, but terrible performances are something I can forgive in low-budget cinema. What I missed were the exploitative factors, namely the expected gore and sleaze. The popularity of Michael Reeves' British Horror masterpiece "Witchfinder General" starring the great Vincent Price spawned a number of violent 'Hexploitation' films about witch-hunts, most prominently the notorious (and great) "Mark Of The Devil". Director Mikels also tried to jump on the bandwagon here, and "Blood Orgy Of The She-Devils" therefore includes two flashbacks to the time of witch-hunts, which are incredibly corny, but probably even so the best scenes in the film. Mikels is probably best known for "The Corpse Grinders" of 1972, which has a certain cult status, and which I have yet to see. "Blood Orgy Of The She Devils" is certainly not the nasty Exploitation film the title suggests, but merely a quite tame, and very very silly little film that mildly amuses but bores even more. It somehow reminded me of "Snake People", an extremely odd low budget-production which happened to be one of the last films starring the great Horror icon Boris Karloff. The difference is that this one doesn't star Karloff. "Blood Orgy Of The She Devils" has its amusing moments, and fans of (awful) cult cinema can consider watching it. Others should avoid it. I personally don't regret watching it, as I was somehow entertained by it, however, I made sure to write this review the day after watching it, since I will probably have forgotten it entirely in a week.

rufasff You can believe Ted Mikels did in fact reserch witchcraft quite a bit before making "Blood Orgy Of The She Devils"; it has a lot of ideas jumbled into a non-plot trying to get Ted a piece of The "Roosemary's Baby" dollar.Alas, it is all very lame, lacks any unintentional humor, and has none of the bounce of "The Girl In The Gold Boots". Much of Mikel's cast from that klutzy charmer are back, but even the wonderful Leslie McRae gets no chance to display any of the vunerable warmth and charm She had in that film. Hollywood sadly overlooked this stunning beauty who could have been a contender.The rest is just cheap, absurd Ted, though played at a slower speed. On the DVD he talks a lot about his celebrated "castle"; where most of this was shot.