(1994)

Submitted by Tornado Dragon

SHORT VERSION:

Through using a tube of lipstick Bibi takes from a bathroom in Hull House as a conveyance to cross over the underground stream surrounding the property, Angela travels to St. Rita’s Academy when Melissa, Bibi, and their friends return there. She possesses some teens and causes some mayhem before luring Melissa away from the academy and back to Hull House, planning to sacrifice her to the Devil to prove her devotion to him.

However, thanks to Sister Gloria, Melissa’s surviving friends, and a various bunch of holy weapons they bring with them to Hull House, both Angela and the people she possessed are vanquished and Melissa is saved. However, after Gloria and the kids return to the academy, another student finds the lipstick, which turns into a serpent and lunges at her….

LONG VERSION:
Melissa (Merle Kennedy), Bibi (Cristi Harris), Johnny (Johnny Moran), Kurt (Ladd York), Terri (Christine Taylor), Shirley (Zoe Trilling), and Rick (Rick Peters) decide to leave Hull House due to a combination of strange occurrences engineered by Angela (Amelia Kinkade) and a cruel prank masterminded by Shirley on Melissa, but Bibi takes a tube of lipstick she earlier found in a bathroom along with her. When she attempts to use it in the car during the drive back to St. Rita’s Academy, it turns into a serpent-like creature and tries to enter her mouth, but she throws it away. She ends up writing off what happened as fatigue playing a trick on her mind, and Shirley takes the lipstick.

Once they get back to St. Rita’s, Shirley goes to use the lipstick herself, but the serpent strikes again and takes possession of her. Angela then appears and seals the transformation, having used the lipstick as a conveyance in order to cross over the underground stream surrounding Hull House. The demonic duo then enter the Halloween Dance going on, and after Angela dances seductively for the teens, she leaves, and Shirley soon kills Rick in open view of the others, including Perry (Bobby Jacoby) and Sister Gloria (Jennifer Rhodes), who had earlier learned of the group’s party at Hull House. Perry and Gloria get the teens out of the room and order them into the chapel before Gloria wards off Shirley with her crucifix. After having Johnny go and wake Father Bob (Rod McCary) so he can perform the last rites on Rick’s body and ordering Bibi and Perry to make sure the other teens stay put in the chapel, Gloria gets ready for the coming battle against evil by putting on her full nun apparel. At the same time, Perry gathers up a bunch of holy items and fills a bunch of balloons and water guns with holy water, and when Gloria comes into the chapel followed by Father Bob and Johnny (the latter of whom mentions that Rick’s body has vanished), they together go out to find Bibi since she had left to collect Melissa. Meanwhile, Angela and Shirley possess Kurt and Terri, and then Angela appears before Melissa and lures her into leaving the academy with her.

During Bibi’s search for Melissa, she is attacked by Terri, but Gloria, Johnny, and Perry come to Bibi’s aid and force Terri to drink holy water, returning her to normal. After Gloria has Johnny and Bibi take Terri to the chapel, she and Perry soon spot Angela putting Melissa into a car, where Shirley and a now-possessed Rick are waiting inside, and driving off to Hull House. When Gloria and the teens meets up with Bob afterwards, Perry explains to Bob that the demons have escaped from Hull House and have kidnapped Melissa, but he stubbornly refuses to believe any of it, thinking that all of Perry’s stories about Hull House and demons are just a bunch of nonsense. The teens express a desire to head back to Hull House to free Melissa, and Bob decides to let them go despite Gloria’s refusal of this idea, and he adds that he will be joining them, thinking that he will finally lay the legend of Hull House to rest.

While searching Hull House for Melissa, Bob becomes possessed, but he, Rick, Shirley, Kurt, and the earlier possessed Z-Boy (Darin Heames) all die thanks to the blessed weapons that Perry brought. Perry suffers a fatal injury while confronting Z-Boy, but he has Johnny make him drink holy water to save him from becoming possessed, and before he dies, he tells Johnny that he thinks that Angela brought Melissa here in order to sacrifice her to the Devil to prove her devotion to him. Gloria, Bibi, and Johnny eventually find Melissa lying entranced on an altar, and then Angela appears out of nowhere. Angela soon apparently decapitates Gloria with a sword and relieves Bibi and Johnny of their weapons, but Gloria reveals that she survived the attack by pulling her head down into her habit. Gloria and Angela briefly debate about faith until Angela challenges Gloria to prove her faith by offering herself as the sacrifice instead and save the others. She agrees to, and then Angela tells the awakened Melissa that Gloria’s soul has great power, and she will gain it if she cuts off her head. Bibi and Johnny try to interfere, but Angela magically paralyzes them. As Melissa holds the sword up, Gloria tells her to remember her faith, and despite Angela’s goading, she drives the blade right through Angela. Gloria then sits up and whips out a hidden water gun on her ankle and sprays Angela with it, seemingly killing her.

As the quartet attempt to find a way out, Angela bursts out of a wall in a serpent-like form, and she sets some boards on a nearby window on fire to give the group “a little taste of Hell”. She knocks down Johnny and Gloria and seizes Bibi, and Melissa tries to fight Angela but quickly gets grabbed. After noticing that the sun is rising outside through the boards Angela set ablaze and that a cross-shape could be formed in them if knocked loose the right way, Johnny kicks out the right boards, and the sunlight shines through the cross-shaped hole onto Angela and makes her burn and explode.

The survivors escape Hull House and head back to St. Rita’s, where the concerned students meet them, and Gloria hugs Melissa and tells her that everything will be all right. Moments later, one of the students finds the discarded lipstick on the ground, and when she opens it up, it once again turns into a serpent and lunges at her.