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Poison Ivy 4: The Secret Society [Blu-ray]

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The fourth installment in the poison ivy series, although it has little in common with the previous aside from name.

The main protagonist is Danielle "Daisy" Brooks played by Miriam Mcdonald, better known as Emma Nelson on Degrassi: the Next Generation. While the main antagonist is Azalea Berges best known as Icebook from the movie Little Giants. Yes they've both matured nicely.

There is only two essential male characters, Professor Andrew Graves and his son Blake Graves.

The basis plot is about how simple farm girl Daisy who is a straight A student gets a scholarship to a prodigious academy leaving behind her simple farm life and simple farm boyfriend.

Meanwhile Azela who is a high ranking member of the exclusive Ivys, essentially an all female mafia, is trying to get an internship with the academy. She is willing to do anything to get it even going as far as sleeping with Blake just to find out if there is any competition.

When she finds out Daisy got it she has her initiated into the society in order to take control of her. It's not long before Daisy realizes that she's a pawn in a much bigger game. I don't won't to spoil it, but the ending leaves much to be desired.


The character of Daisy is not well fleshed out. Very little is known about her and the death of her parents. Also at the beginning she has a boyfriend and yet she has no problem sleeping with Blake and on the first date. Even worse she's back with her boyfriend at the end.

Azela character is not well made out either, I mean sleeping with a guy just to get information.

Neither of the main characters plays much of a part, Blake is merely a plot device after his night with Daisy, and the professor plays an even less significant role.

There was also plenty of lose ends, what happened to the society, what about Daisy and Blake, what about Azela and Elizbeth, ordinarily this would mean sequel but most likely if there is another movie it will be with completely different characters and none of this will be acknowledged.

And if you didn't already know the DVD has five minutes of extra, explicit footage. Both Miriam and Shawna go completely topless in this:

The explicit scenes are as follows:

Shawna:

While making out with Blake she has her top removed to reveal her breasts, followed by a scene of having her breasts sucked and dry humping.

In order to seduce her professor Azela shows up in black lingerie before pulling her top down to reveal her breasts, followed by a scene similar to the first.


Miriam:

While making out with a guy she removes her dress and bra to reveal a full frontal shot of her breasts, followed by a few side shots of her breasts.

At the initiation ceremony, she along with two other girls has their robes removed to reveal a brief shot of her breasts, they are all then lie down and given a tattoo, and their breasts can all be seen again when they rise.

In addition she has two lesser explicit scenes, in one she is seen in her underwear and in the other she is seen wearing black lingerie.

Miriam seemed far less enthusiastic about being topless than Shawna. Both times Miriam is topless it is only brief, while Shawna's scenes last for over a minute, Shawna really seemed to be getting into it as well, guarantee this won't be her last time doing nudity

I personally believe that the nudity is merely a ruse to sell DVDs, really five minutes of nudity is no reason to buy a DVD. However if you are a fan of Miriam or Shawna or erotic thrillers in general, then you can give it a try.

well, I had originally bought this film because I am a hard core Degrassi fan, and in the show my favorite character would have to be Emma. As you can probably tell the "young woman" who plays Emma in Degrassi plays our lovely protagonist in the new poison ivy movie, Miriam Macdonald. I was not expecting much from her as an actress after seeing her in Sci-Fi channel's original movie "Sea Beast" but she exceeded my expectations in this film. I will warn you now there is a lot of sex in this movie, and there is some unneeded nudity as well when the ivy sorority in inducting new members. I'm not going to get into the plot because the one posted by Amazon was pretty near accurate

WARNING TO PARENTS: this is not the kind of movie you should buy for you daughter just because she likes Degrassi:The Next generation, because there is graphic sex scenes and pretty hard core violence

I have seen all the other poison ivy films and I have to say this one is my favorite. You're basic storyline is still the same like in all of the poison ivy films. Young naive girl meets up with sexy temptress who seduces her or her boyfriend or her father out of fun or the persuit of power and success. What attracted me to this film was of course, Miriam McDonald best known for playing Emma Nielson-Simpson on Degrassi The Next Generation - Season 6 The character she plays named Daisy reminds me a lot of her Emma character. Naive, sweet, head strong, and goal/school crazy. But unlike Emma Daisy is very easily fooled while Emma isn't going to believe everything she hears. It's hard to identify with her character until you met her rival Azalea who is everything she isn't. Power hungry, uses her body to get what she desires. All for an intership.. Like I said, if you liked the other three films you will like this one. I have to say once again hats off to Miriam McDonald for doing things in scenes you never see on Degrassi.

Poison Ivy: Secret Society is a good-looking B-movie in every respect: good-looking people, good-looking buildings and good-looking cars. The plot is refreshingly uncomplicated. Beautiful girl arrives at high-end school to find herself embroiled in all kinds of extra-curricular activities of the naughty kind. The poor helpless lamb (blonde, from the country) falls prey to a gaggle of girls (brunettes, urban) collectively known as the Ivies - a secret society made up entirely of good-looking college girls with less-than-honourable intentions. Cue sex scenes involving good-looking teachers with immaculately sculpted facial hair. Throw in partial nudity, a couple of murders and a generous helping of lies, deceit and intrigue. For me, the film is made watchable by Shawna Waldron, who oozes charisma and charm (I look forward to seeing more of her in the future). Next to her, Miriam McDonald's lack of acting ability is thrown into sharp relief. How did she get the part? Is it because she looks vaguely like Ashley Judd?

I could had swore I saw this plot before, but I'm being too kind giving it two stars. But since I got to see the goodies from from Miriam and Shawna it wasn't a total waste.

Does "Poison Ivy 4: The Secret Society" measure up as the latest installment in this fine line of erotic thrillers? Does it have the next Drew Barrymore, or, dare we hope, the next Alyssa Milano? Well, let's start with the essential elements of the genre: "Poison Ivy 4" has about eight naked breasts (some appear to be real), three short sex scenes, a lot of attractive young women (I'm not sure I'd call them "actresses") wearing a lot of tight fitting clothing, a fair amount of cleavage, a fair amount of skin, and some sexy lingerie. The innocent but sexy blond lead, Miriam McDonald, is one of the young women that gets naked and has sex, but we see dark haired Shawna Waldron the most, and she does look very sexy, though she appears to be wearing a pretty wild wig. Unfortunately, for an erotic thriller set at a college with a female secret society, a lot appears to be missing. Where's the girl's locker room shower scene? Where's the ritualistic spanking? Where's the lesbian sex scene? Can a guy at least get a pillow fight? Oh, there is a plot, by the way, but all you need to know is that Miriam McDonald plays an innocent farm girl off to college, and Shawna Waldron plays the dark haired evil leader of the female secret society, and we see each of them having sex, but not with each other. But they do have a cat fight, so not all is lost. This is the sort of movie where you have to keep the fast-forward button handy. The flick just doesn't live up to its potential. For all the pretty faces, hot bodies, and low-cut tops, the sex is not long or hot enough, the dialogue is not silly enough, and the acting is not bad enough. In short, this is no "Showgirls". Reviewed 1/21/2009 after watching on blu-ray.

This movie, in my opinion, was just beyond cheesy
It insults the previous Poison Ivy series.
The supposed manipulations & evilness in the movie was just lame & they did not convince me at all as to being evil. I was not buying it at all. Jaime Pressly as Violet in Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction, did so much of a better job then these broads. All this movie strikes to me is as if the characters within the movie saw the 'Poison Ivy' series with Drew & Jaime and attempted to be like how they were and make a "secret" society based upon it, basically trying to be wannabes.

...and they highly failed.

Btw, the only thing "secret" about the Poison Ivy society was the fact that they didnt say crap about it in public, other than that everyone & their mama appeared to know about it. Horrible.

Poison Ivy 4- YAWN. Not really a part of a series except to slap a name on a movie to help it sell, I thought it would be cute to kill time with. I really can't write anything, good or bad. You just don't care, which means it was a waste of time.

The thrust of the film is pretty girl Daisy, having over come the loss of her parents and sold the farm to pay for her tuition to an eastern college, leaves her boy friend behind and impresses the faculty while falling foul of the local secret sorority, the Ivy's, who want to induct her and, who cares? The production values are first rate, the acting fine but you just couldn't possibly care less about the characters. Win, lose draw, there's no real compulsion either way. Does innocent blond farm girl thrive? Does scanky brunette sorority queen get her way through sex instead of hard work, again? Who cares? The viewer doesn't have enough invested in either character to really bother.

The bottom line, this is a waste of time. It looks good, good production values but the characters are so `bleah' you don't care enough to even want to see if the skank corrupts the good girl or just falls flat.

Only purchased it because Miriam McDonald is in the movie, Movie couldve been a lot better. Ending is pretty much predictable.

If you enjoy risky business and the feeling it gives you, this series is for you.