{"id":101,"date":"2008-01-19T06:28:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T12:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-01-19T06:28:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T12:28:26","slug":"r-dvd-mothers-little-helpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sacredtriskele.net\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"R – DVD Mother’s Little Helpers"},"content":{"rendered":"

DVD<\/strong>: Mother\u2019s Little Helpers
\nPresented by\/Copyright<\/strong>: Floralia Films 2004
\nWriter\/Producer\/Director<\/strong>: Stephen Geller
\nStarring<\/strong>: Kae Geller, Brett Ryland, Megan Kerins, Sarita Timmerman, Alyssa Russell, Dana Chodos, Maryssa Eusebio, Selene Preston, Lauren Calta, Yvette Hope, Oona Laurie
\nPlaying Time<\/strong>: 130 mins.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething must have happened back there\u2026to make those girls learn Greek!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNine girls have escaped from a reform school. Their purpose? To bring down the most ancient Goddess, The Great Mother. To change their lives and the future of the planet. And if they don\u2019t succeed, they\u2019ve sworn to kill themselves. Or be killed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The movie opens with a gaggle of teenage girls assaulting and imprisoning what looks to be a jail guard. Turns out, these young woman are residents of a medium security girls-only reform school, only without the bars, and with comfy \u201ccabins\u201d instead of cells. Several of the girls have discovered they share a link to the past\u2026a long ago, far away type of past, and have now made good their escape.<\/p>\n

The rest of the movie focuses on the Psychiatrist and her intern\/teaching assistant known only as \u201cRez\u201d (as the Psychiatrist is known as \u201cPsych\u201d through most of the movie), and their curious, continued entrapment into the girls\u2019 cause. \u201cRez\u201d is so involved in fact, they\u2019ve known about him since before he came to \u201cKyalea\u201d. He is part of their greater plan. They are going to bring about the return of the Great Mother, the most ancient goddess. \u201cRez\u201d is chosen as hostage once he finds the girls, and soon falls in love with one of them. Not to be outdone, the girl in charge quickly informs him that he is the father of \u201cPsychs\u201d baby (who is lesbian, for whatever reason this is relevant in the movie, is never revealed), and he will father a child with her, as well as the girl he loves.<\/p>\n

This brings about the birth of \u201cCreativity, Love and Destruction\u201d \u2013 all aspects of the Great Mother. It culminates with a rather shoddy selection of special effects and the disappearance of the girls with their hostage-cum-consort, \u201cRez\u201d.<\/p>\n

While this movie is quite obviously low budget, as evidenced by the rather shaky photography and somewhat lackadaisical freehand with scene looping and volume control on the soundtrack, it was an enjoyable movie. If one can fight their way through the boredom during long loop-scenes and annoying psycho-babble and drama, and get to the meat of the matter, it\u2019s actually quite well done, and well researched.<\/p>\n

Most of the people involved in the creation of this movie are newcomers to screen productions \u2013 not to mention to acting at all. Many are students, some are film crew \u2013 one (the star, \u201cPsych\u201d) is the director\u2019s wife. <\/p>\n

The only veteran I could find listed with the production credits is one Stephen Geller \u2013 who has a list of credentials that reads like the Rede \u2013 if you\u2019re into his type of film. If you recognize his name, you\u2019ve likely seen \u201cSlaughterhouse Five\u201d, \u201cValachi Papers\u201d, or \u201cCuppa Cabby Piece o\u2019 Pie\u201d. Mr. Geller served as screenwriter for these, and many great others. Mother\u2019s Little Helpers was a project he\u2019d been wanting to do for many years, and finally had the resources and time to do it. It\u2019s been referred to as a piece of \u201cguerilla-filming\u201d mastery.<\/p>\n

All in all, despite the camp, the low-budget and the somewhat forgivable bad acting, I\u2019ve recommended it over and over to friends. It\u2019s definitely one to watch more than once.<\/p>\n

3.5 Broomsticks
\n—
\nJodi Lee, aka ierne, is a 20+ year veteran of pagan paths. A single work at home mom, she is currently hard at work on her first novel.
\nhttp:\/\/www.jodilee.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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