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Nurse Sherri
[Retro-Shock-O-Rama]
1978; color
Directed by Al Adamson
Starring: Jill Jacobson, Marilyn Koi & Geoffrey Land
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I have watched a fair number of Al Adamson movies in my day. Some would say I have sat through more Al Adamson movies than anyone needs to see in a lifetime. (In fact, I believe I may said that myself the last time the Kommandant suggested we watch Dracula vs. Frankenstein - again!) And, sometimes, they put me to sleep. Literally. Not the biker ones so much, those seem to be able to hold my attention, but I totally fell asleep during this film's DVD counterpart, Five Bloody Graves, for example. (On the other hand, I'm not much for westerns.) I also fell asleep during Nurse Sherri the first time I sat down to watch it. Which, believe it or not, was not for the purposes of this review. Some number of years ago the Kommandant unearthed from his vaults a dusty VHS tape featuring this and a couple other oddities so we gave it a whirl. I really don't remember much from that viewing past the point where Nurse Sherri is sexually assaulted in her bed by a lecherous green mist. (It's a long story, which I may or may not get to over the course of this review, but suffice it to say, this sad excuse for a special effect is nowhere near as cool as the green mist that Japanese wrestler used to spit on his opponents.) The second time we watched it we actually thought we were watching something else. A movie that, as it turns out, doesn't really exist. See, what happened this time was, the husband came across a dusty VHS tape at a flea market called Black Voodoo and bought it, thinking it was some obscure blaxploitation film he had never heard of. Sadly, once we sat down to watch it, I realized we were watching Nurse Sherri under a different title. (So, in retrospect, I suppose the fact that I fell asleep watching it the first time didn't lessen it's impact on my psyche.) With all that said, you can see how I wasn't completely thrilled by the prospect of sitting through this a third time. Nonetheless, I decided to soldier forth and give it another go. Right before hitting play however, I thought "Hmm, I wonder if Sam Sherman's commentary track might lend some clarity to my memory's fuzzy recollection of this equally fuzzy film?" So I decided to watch a little of it that way, and ended up watching the whole film that way. Man, that Sam Sherman is quite the character! His insight really did make the movie on the whole seem a whole lot more valid, which is a feat in itself. I even managed to make it through a little of the second version offered here as well. (Mainly I just wanted to see what was so wrong with the sex scenes Adamson originally filmed that made Sherman want to cut them out. Now I know - they were totally boring and unnecessary.) Of course, now that I've told you all of that I've run out of room to actually review the film. Oh well, just read the back of the box the next time you're at the video store.
—Bunny
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