FORMAT: VHS
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
(As posted on September 30th, 2010, under the title, Night Call Nurses)
The third flick in producer Roger Corman’s Nurses series revolves around three nurses who pull the graveyard shift at the psycho ward. One nurse tries to help a fellow brother (a revolutionary being held captive by The Man) escape the hospital. Another nurse falls in love with a speed-taking trucker. And the other nurse starts to think she’s going crazy once she starts dating her shrink. Oh yeah, and there’s also a transvestite nutball (who likes to dress up like a nurse) roaming around stalking the girls.
Night Call Nurses isn’t great or anything but it’s a big step-up from the previous entry in the series as it actually has some humor sprinkled about. It also features a healthy amount of skin (which is always a good thing) and director Jonathan (Bad Girls) Kaplan always finds some excuse for the chicks to get naked. The best nudity scene comes from a group therapy session where the pimp doctor urges all of his female patients to disrobe.
My biggest complaint with Night Call Nurses is that way too much time is taken up with the nurses helping the prisoner escape. The whole black revolutionary thing was already done before in Private Duty Nurses, so it seems redundant to have it in this flick too. I also wish more time was spent on the transvestite killer nurse subplot. It was a potentially cool idea but it never really receives a satisfactory payoff in the end.
The trucker gets the best line of the movie when he looks at a nurse’s name tag and asks, “Janis? Is that your name, or the name of your left titty?”
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