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Chuck (Chuck McQuary) has decided Hooter College isn’t for him so he starts managing a band with three of his classmates in it. The Splitz are lead singer Joan (Patti Lee), guitarist Gina (Robin Johnson, making her first movie after the three year Robert Stigwood Organization contract after she made Times Square) and drummer Susie (Barbara Bingham, Beyond Darkness). The Splitz are having a tough time playing dives and Chuck wants to get them onto bigger stages.

Funny thing. One of those dive bars is CBGB.

He also wants Gina, who he takes home one night and meets her mobster father Vito (Raymond Serra) and sex-crazed uncle Vinnie (Dom Irrera).

There’s also a sex comedy plot where Dean Hunta (Shirley Stoler, Martha Beck from The Honeymoon Killers) decides that the Phi Betas will lose their sorority house and works with Sigma Phi’s Lois Scagliani (Forbes Riley, Splatter University) and Delta Phi’s Fern Hymenstein (Tara King) to make it happen. Seeing how the girls are being treated, The Splitz join the Phi Betas.

There are a lot of shenanigans during the three games that the sororities play, including the Phi Betas getting a caveman-like coach named Warwick (Tom McCleister), The Splitz blackmailing the dean’s husband and said dean being hypnotized and nearly stripping on stage before the big show.

The soundtrack is a mix between some interesting 1982 bands and doo wop. So you get “Heart of Glass” and “One Way Or Another by Blondie along with Del Shannon.

Director Domonic Paris also made Dracula’s Last Rites and the mixtape films Film House Fever and Bad Girls In the Movies. He wrote it with Bianca Littlebaum, Harry Azorin and Kelly Van Horn, who went on to produce The Day After Tomorrow and Eight Legged Freaks.

There’s a fun music cameo in this, as a chef is played by Bobby Pickett, who we all know better as Boris, the man who unleashed the “Monster Mash.” It was, as they say, a graveyard smash.

This movie promises to be a sex comedy yet it is rarely sexy and never all that funny. That said, I love the band and want so much better for them.

You can watch this on Tubi.