Daisy tries to walk the straight and narrow, but all bets are off after a video leaks of her riding her favorite teacher's son. Their leader, Azalia - obviously - wants Daisy to join so she can be controlled and prevented from landing a coveted internship in D.C.
Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008) sends country girl Daisy to an exclusive private school in New England where she's quickly pegged by the dean's son and the members of a secret society that's so secret they live in a shared house, talk about themselves openly, and sport matching "ivy" tattoos above their ass-cracks. Violet returns to the house 11 years later for revenge and follows in her dead sister's sexy footsteps by building a friendship, banging the older man, and intentionally causing discontent and trouble while wearing someone else's clothes (or no clothes at all). Mom's having an affair with the man of the house and shtupping the pool boy on the side, but her naked shell game implodes on discovery sending her and her daughters back out into the world. Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997) opens in the mid-1980s with 9-year-old Ivy and her younger sister Violet playing in a mansion where their mother works as a maid.
(The last film premiered on TV but was immediately followed by a DVD release featuring five minutes of extra footage in the form of T&A.) All four films, the entire quadrilogy if you will and I know you will, are now available in a box set from Scream Factory, so it seemed like the perfect time to dive right in and see what these sequels had to offer. That awareness was enough of a reason to justify not one, not two, but three direct to DVD sequels of wildly varying quality. Poison Ivy didn't exactly set the world ablaze back in the early 90s - it cost $3 million and earned even less - but it found a home on VHS and pay cable meaning it remained in the public consciousness long after its theatrical run would have suggested it be forgotten. This is purely fluff cinema designed for film fans drawn to naughty women, worse men, and flora taxonomy. I didn't intentionally make the title of this week's column sound like a math problem, but if it's any consolation the films we're looking at today require very little in the way of heavy thinking.
In this edition, things get dirty with inappropriately seductive women, idiotically horndog men, and venomous plants in name only.)
( Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies.