Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2

One of the great classic movie titles of B-movie history is Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama. You can remember that name. It was great marketing. And a good film also. It has the beloved Linnea Quigley as a tough girl, which also makes many B-movie fans swoon. One of you Glibs brought up that it would be a great addition for celebrating Women’s History Month here at GlibFlick. Absolutely! I did some initial research and to my surprise, it had a sequel made in 2022! The sequel roughly follows the plot of the first film pretty closely, so I decided to do a kind of “make your own adventure” where you could decide to watch one or the other. Since a lot of you already know the original, I am including some facts about the new sequel:

  • The director of the new version is Brinke Stevens, who since acting in the original has become a producer (10 films) and director (4 films).
  • This film concentrates on a new generation of kids that accidentally releases the imp from the bowling trophy. It does contain some original cast members playing different roles.
  • The new film is shorter by almost 18 minutes. I consider that a good thing, less exposition and more action.

That being said, which one do you like better? Make your own adventure and let me know! I was not satisfied with just giving some info on the new film, so I did a high-level table of comparisons:

Comparison

 1988 Version 2022 Version

Run Time

1:19

1:00

Directed by

David DeCoteau

Brinke Stevens

Has Michelle Bauer and Brinke Stevens

Yes

Yes

Has Linnea Quigley

Yes

No*

Boys spy on sorority ritual, get roped into helping break into bowling alley

Yes

Yes

Perverse imp breaks out of trophy

Yes

Yes

Hilarity Ensues!

Yes

Kinda

 

I hope this comparison was helpful. I wouldn’t want any of you to choose your own adventure without some advance planning and knowledge.  My almost pathological hatred of sequels and remakes made this comparison a difficult thing to do. I feel I gave this film the honest comparison it deserved.

So watch!  Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week is the last week of Women’s history month, so I thought I would take a page from modern society and feature a film about men!  Watch The Barbarians unfairly crush the female competition!

*I was under the impression Linnea Quigley WAS in this sequel, until I found this quote in IMDB: “Linnea Quigley said in a March 2021 interview that people keep asking her for updates on this film but she said she doesn’t know anything about the sequel because no one has ever approached her about it even though it was announced in April 2019. She also said she’d probably play Spider again if asked, but she’s kind of hesitant because she considers the first one perfect and doesn’t want to ruin it with a horrible sequel.”

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