You know, by now I should've known better. Troma has a history of buying up low-budget movies, slapping an appealing title for B-movie fans on it, and throwing it to the wolves. Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy is no exception to that rule only this time they've taken a Belgium produced movie (which I've read from some sources may have partly been a triple-X adult film), retitled it, badly dubbed in some inane dialogue, and even thrown in a deathly serious narrator who babbles on a whole load of psychological blather in an attempt to give this mess some sort of a plot.

It's not like things don't start with promise as it opens with a slew of nubile women (who, I assume, are supposed to be nurses) in lingerie sporting Uzi's guarding a medical clinic, but that's all thrown aside one the narrator opens his big mouth. Of course we could also blame whoever was responsible for trying to piece together something that resembles a movie rather than a series of boring "almost" scenes of nudity, a couple of bloody set pieces (like a moment where one girl stumbles and impales herself on a tree branch), and a few completely bizarre moments you're only likely to see in a low-budget European flick.

The minimal story has to do with a love triangle between three women. There's Ilsa (Hajni Brown), who rules the clinic with an iron fist and forces her brainwashed nurse henchwomen to troll the streets looking for victims to sate the bloodlust of her "daughter", and lover, Sabrina (Susanna Makay). This gets under the skin of Ilsa's former lover Greta (Celia Farago) who plots to try and win back her former flame by not only trying to take Sabrina out of the picture, but also by causing the other nurses to rebel against their "master".

And that's about as much story description you're going to get out of me as really, Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy, is just a series of nutty set pieces and non-titillating nudity (including a stripping sequence that has a weird "hypnotic swirl" running over top of it the entire scene) with plentiful scenes of our the female cast lounging about and shooting up heroin, an entire moment with the nurses hunting down some campers to the tune of "Flight of the Bumblebee" that must be seen to be believed (and includes a tripwire foot dismemberment and a tree branch being forced somewhere it shouldn't go), and Troma's attempts to put in some off-beat humour such as flashing the names of notorious killers while Sabrina enjoys her violent comics and throwing some utterly pointless math-like equations on the screen during the hunting moment.

This is about as bad as they tend to get and although I will admit that it was so utterly bad I couldn't peel my eyes away from it this is something only the most seasoned veteran of trash cinema would be able to slog their way through. Sometimes I feel like my ability to sit through the vilest piece of shit is a curse - this movie helped prove that point. (Chris Hartley, 12/23/05)

Directed By: Harry M. Love (Leon Paul De Bruyn).
Written By: Leon P. Howard (Leon Paul De Bruyn).

Starring: Susanna Makay, Hajni Brown, Celia Farago, Nicole A. Gyony.