Three years before Kevin McAllister pulled the same stunt, a bunch of babes get lost in New York and wander around in this befuddlingly bad, cobbled together TV movie by horror maestro Jean Rollin.
An old blind woman reminisces about when she was little. She meets another girl, and together, they read a storybook and imagine themselves disappearing into the stories. The stories mostly involve women in white masks being transported to various locations around New York City. They could be the little girls from the prologue-within-a-prologue, but then again, they might not as we are told these scenes happened either before or after that. (“OR NOW!”) Segments include two women getting into a knife fight on a rooftop, a vampire babe biting an unsuspecting broad (the only real horror-related sequence in the entire film), and a lady doing a sexy dance.
Yes, this is a mess. Watching it immediately after Dracula’s Fiancée, it certainly felt like a big comedown. It’s only fifty-two minutes long, but it feels much longer thanks to the incoherent plotting and editing. At all times, it just feels like an unfinished movie that was slapped together and released anyway. I think Rollin was hoping to pass the fractured plot off as another one of his dreamlike features. However, the visuals are just not compelling enough to tie everything together. He's going to have to do a lot better than a bunch of babes hanging out on the beach wearing masks to make this work.
I did like the funny scene early on where the little girls compare their adventures with a long list of classic movies like King Kong and Eyes Without a Face before tossing in a bunch of Jean Rollin films in there. Sadly, you’ll be wishing you were watching any of the films the girls mentioned as they are all much better than this crap.
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