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Alyssa Milano Month continues on B-Movie Enema. For our third installment, we hop over to Showtime to listen in on some Confessions of Sorority Girls.

This movie is actually also known as Confessions of a Sorority Girl as it was originally released. If that sounds familiar to some exploitation fans out there, it’s because it was part of a series of made for TV movies produced by Showtime that acted as loose remakes of 1950s movies of the same title. Now, a producer on this series of remakes and a co-writer of this movie is Debra Hill. She’s best known for producing several John Carpenter movies. So this is coming from a certain amount of talent.

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Is there anything better than a man in a monkey suit?

Well, probably, but in an old movie, well… Yeah, I guess there are still things better than a man in a monkey suit. However! It’s still pretty great. As is Lon Chaney, Jr. who was the Wolf Man. Not to mention this also stars Raymond Burr who not once, but twice faced Godzilla and lived to tell the tale. He was also Perry Mason. I love me some Perry Mason.

Top billed, though, is Barbara Payton. She has a story all her own about being drop dead gorgeous, who could make it in movies with her looks, but also had little real talent. She died only about 15 years after the release of this movie after her life spiraled out of control and into booze, a horrifically violent relationship, and even prostitution. She did write a tell-all book about her sorrowful life called I Am Not Ashamed.

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