At first I was excited for the DVD I rented because it was hosted by Elvira. Why not break up the monotony with a little hosting from the ghostly goddess of the dark? But then I realized the rest of the DVD's presentation was very poor – it looked and sounded like the print had been dragged through the mud before it was transferred. That's a shame because the movie turned out to be good!
Lilli Palmer stars as the head mistress of a 19th century boarding school for girls. Her latest charge (Cristina Galbo) is the orphaned daughter of a prostitute and suffers ridicule and abuse at the hands of the other girls, led by the head misstress' second in command (Mary Maude). She also strikes up a budding romance with the head mistress' son (John Moulder Brown) who is forbidden by his mother to interact with any of the girls because none of them are "good enough" for him.
You might wonder how this qualifies as a horror movie. Well, there's some business about missing and disappearing girls, but I think this would qualify even without that and the shock ending because the abuse and bullying in the school is pretty horrific on its own. The movie eventually includes murder and mutilation and other kinds of depravity, but the most harrowing scene is one in which the group of girls thoroughly breaks the new girl by ruthlessly ridiculing her about her mother's past.
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