{"id":30315,"date":"2019-02-04T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30315"},"modified":"2019-02-03T23:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:33:50","slug":"the-poison-ivy-collection-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/the-poison-ivy-collection-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poison Ivy Collection [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For all three of you fans of the \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d movie series wondering when we\u2019d finally see all four of the films from the series on Blu-Ray, Shout Factory finally brings it to us with extras and restorations. Truth is I\u2019m eagerly awaiting the \u201cDevil in the Flesh\u201d duology on Blu-Ray (Sidenote: Do you think anyone has the balls to release the entire \u201cWild Things\u201d saga?), but for now we have this neat box set of some of the best worst erotic trash that\u2019s ever been brought to movie fans from Warner bros. And just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day and Women in Horror Month, too! You can ogle a pre-career renaissance Drew Barrymore, or up and comer Jaime Pressly, or a post-\u201cDegrassi\u201d Miriam McDonald.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no wrong option, is the bullet point of my explanation.<\/p>\n

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In \u201cPoison Ivy,\u201d Sara Gilbert plays Sylvie Cooper, a young student who is detached from her father Darryl (Tom Skerritt), both of whom are coping with her mother\u2019s feigning health. When she befriends a gorgeous young student named Ivy, Ivy begins to insinuate herself in to Sylvie\u2019s home life, seducing Sylvie\u2019s father Darryl, and also slowly works out a plan to murder Sylvie\u2019s ailing mother George (Cheryl Ladd). \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d is classic nineties erotic thriller junk with a decent cast, including a then popular Sara Gilbert, and Drew Barrymore, before she rebuilt her image as a wholesome comedy star. For all intents and purposes, Barrymore is sexy in the role, and \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d is trashy fun that feels like a more legitimized form of late night cable softcore. The Disc for \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d comes with an audio commentary from director Katt Shea, and you can watch \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d in its theatrical or unrated form. There are also the original trailers for \u201cPoison Ivy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoison Ivy 2: Lily\u201d is another bit of nineties erotic thriller pulp with Alyssa Milano pre-career renaissance, when she was trying to shed her child star persona for more adult, edgier far. Milano plays Lily, a sheltered Midwestern girl who arrives in LA to go to art school. When she moves in with her friends, she discovers a diary in her new apartment filled with sexual misadventures written by someone name Ivy. So thrilled by the diary is she, that she transforms herself in to Ivy and begins her own sexual journey. Along the way she seduces her friends including Gredin (Johnathon Shaech), and teachers and soon she becomes obsessed with one of her lovers. \u201cLily\u201d is much more sex oriented than the previous film in the series, and garners one of the many heel roles by Xander Berkeley. The disc for \u201cLily\u201d comes with the theatrical and unrated versions, and the original movie trailer.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoison Ivy: The New Seduction\u201d is the series\u2019 diving in to full on softcore porn as a young Jaime Pressly slums it on one of her many horrendous roles before becoming a big television star. Here she plays Violet, a long lost sister to Ivy, whose family was ruined by infidelity. In 1996, she comes back to infiltrate the family that ousted her mother and sisters leaving them homeless and basically ruining her childhood. Pressly as Violet becomes obsessed with her target and begins a campaign of revenge by sexually seducing and enacting pure revenge, which inevitably destroys her. Pressly is a blonde bombshell with a unique look and your mileage with this film depends on how much you admire her. The Disc for this contains the theatrical and unrated versions and the original trailer.<\/p>\n

Lastly, \u201cPoison Ivy: The Secret Society\u201d from 2008 now sees the series in TV movie territory. We meet Daisy, a young girl who moves out of her small town after the death of a college student, and joins an elite group of young gorgeous girls called \u201cThe Ivies.\u201d As Daisy makes good within the halls of her campus, she soon finds out there\u2019s a lot more to this secret society of sorority girls. This new \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d is less about a temptress seducing and murdering people, and is more in line with the goofy \u201cThe Skulls\u201d movie series, as she becomes embroiled with secret society melodrama, and people begin turning up dead. When Daisy becomes implicated in a murder, she has to clear her name while working around this deceitful sisterhood. In any case, it\u2019s entertaining to see the cast, all of whom are far from their respective family based pasts. Miriam McDonald comes off of \u201cDegrassi,\u201d there\u2019s Catherine Hicks from \u201cSeventh Heaven,\u201d and a gorgeous Shawna Waldron from the nineties classic \u201cLittle Giants.\u201d This being a TV movie, there\u2019s only one cut of \u201cThe Secret Society\u201d on the final disc, along with the original trailer for the movie.<\/p>\n