Girlfriend From Hell is a 1989

1989 in film

-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 comedy/horror B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 starring actor Dana Ashbrook

Dana Ashbrook

Dana V. Ashbrook is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing Bobby Briggs on the cult TV series Twin Peaks and its 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.-Personal life:...

 of Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...

fame, and Liane Curtis of "Sixteen Candles", as well as several B-movies of the 80s. Directed by Dan Peterson. The film has achieved as a small cult following (thanks to repeated screenings of the film on Comedy Central in the 90s), and has even spawned a stage musical adaptation.

Plot

The film, a tongue-in-cheek satire of typical teen horror and sex comedies, chronicles a high school party where all Hell

Hell

In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...

 breaks loose, literally. In this case, the devil has taken over (and consequently vamped up) the body of a nerdy, socially awkward young woman attending the party.

Trivia

Was originally planned to be called "Babysitter From Hell", in which Maggie would become possessed by the devil and terrorize the children she was babysitting. This was later changed to "Girlfriend From Hell" which would allow more adult themes and have more grown up actors working full time.

Stage Musical

In early 2011, playwright/composer Sean Matthew Whiteford adapted the film into a stage musical. The pop-rock musical features 17 original songs, a revamped storyline, while still using several of the original film's characters, and using the film's release date year, 1989, as the year the show is set in. The show opens for a test run at The Gene Frankel Theatre in NYC on July 21st. The original Off-Off Broadway cast includes Melissa Matthews as Maggie (the role originated by Liane Curtis in the film), Dana Gough, Gregory Krupp, Frank McGinnis, Jamie Nicole Miller, Cassiopeia Ottulich, Matthew Patane, Juda Leah Selkowitz, Michael Siktberg, Sean Matthew Whiteford, and Margie Zarcone.

Cast and characters

Actor	Role
Dana Ashbrook Dana Ashbrook Dana V. Ashbrook is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing Bobby Briggs on the cult TV series Twin Peaks and its 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.-Personal life:...	Chaser
Liane Alexandra Curtis Liane Alexandra Curtis Liane Alexandra Curtis is an American film and television actress and musician. She has garnered a cult following after such B grade theater and video releases as Critters 2: The Main Course and Girlfriend from Hell as well as smaller roles in higher profile classics such as Sixteen Candles and...	Maggie
Lezlie Deane Lezlie Deane Lezlie Deane is an American singer, musician, rollerderby athlete, and actress who has starred in film and made some television appearances...	Diane
Anthony Barrile Anthony Barrile Anthony Barrile is an actor, musician, writer, and native New Yorker who has starred in many film and stage productions. He is well known to New York audiences for his memorable performance as 'Cousin Kevin', the twisted lout in the original Broadway production of the Tony Award winning 'The Who's...	Carl
James Daughton James Daughton James Daughton is a film and television actor who is widely known for his role as Gregg Marmalard in National Lampoon's Animal House. He also had a role in the 1982 film The Beach Girls, in which he was noted primarily for stripping naked and running into the sea.-External links:...	Thomas J. Harper
Ken Abraham	Rocco
Sarah Kaite Coughlan	Freda
Hilary Morse	Alice
Brad Zutaut	Teddy