Review: They’re Playing With Fire
Literature professor Sybil Danning (!) seduces college student Eric Brown for the purpose of convincing him to help her and husband Andrew Prine (also a professor) in the task of scaring Prine’s elderly mother and grandmother out of the house that Prine and Danning want for themselves. He is supposed to pretend to be a burglar, but botches the job and runs away. Then the two old ladies turn up dead – murdered. And somebody’s responsible! (Yes, I did just quote “Plan 9 From Outer Space” ). Paul Clemens and Dominick Brascia turn up as college students. Eric Brown is back for more “Private Lessons” , but this similarly-themed film from 1984 isn’t really related to that infamous Sylvia Kristel outing. This time it’s Sybil Danning playing the sexy teacher (a massive upgrade in my eyes), the student is in college, and the tone/plot is darker. Other than that, it’s largely the same student/teacher sex film deal. Directed by Howard Avedis (the early Bill Paxton film “Mortuary”...