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Satan's School for Girls

2000 · 87 min

A slow-burning, campy TV horror that mixes eerie campus mystery with a sense of dread and sisterly grief.

Directed by: Christopher Leitch
Genres: Tv movie, Horror
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove

Tagline: A bad girl is a terrible thing to waste
Overview: A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister's suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting to make her their fifth member of their evil circle.

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Directed by: Christopher Leitch
Genres: Tv movie, Horror
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
deception
grief
isolation
power
Places: school
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	5
Humour	3
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	4

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