Poison Ivy: The Secret Society

Plot synopsis:
Recently orphaned country girl Danielle "Daisy" Brooks leaves her ranch and her boyfriend William behind to pursue her college degree, and transfers to Berkshire college, an elite New England private school haunted by the mysterious death of a young college student, Alexis Baldwin. Her first week as a college freshman makes a big impression, not only attracting the notice of the dean’s handsome son Blake, but also singling her out for a prestigious internship in Washington D.C. Blake quickly becomes infatuated with Daisy and asks her out on a date, much to the disapproval of his father, Professor Andrew Graves.
Daisy’s arrival also piques the interest of the Ivy Society, a close-knit secretive sisterhood to whom the lucrative scholarship is traditionally granted to. The head of the Ivies, an attractive and ambitious student named Azalea Berges with a long history of truancy and illicit affairs with teachers, breaks into Blake’s home, offering sexual favors in exchange for his help in boosting her chances with the internship. Upon learning that one of the considered candidates is Daisy, she invites her to join the Ivies. Daisy initially refuses, preferring to continue her studies and consummate her relationship with Blake. But when an error in her tuition payments threatens to erase her name from the college system, she is left with no choice but to agree. Late one night, she and two other students take part in an initiation ritual at the Ivy household. Pledging allegiance to the sisterhood, they drink from drugged ceremonial wine, are stripped naked and tattooed with the Ivy insignia.
At first, Azalea and the Ivies seem willing to help Daisy with anything she needs, outfitting her with a fashionable new wardrobe, solving her financial issues and introducing her to a popular new lifestyle. But Daisy’s new social status distances her from her roommate Magenta Hart, still mourning the death of her friend Alexis Baldwin. She is also awarded a place in the scholarship by Dean Graves, but breaks up with Blake for ignoring her after they slept together. Distracted by his relationship with Daisy, Blake fails to honor his agreement with Azalea. Having recorded Blake and Daisy’s first night of lovemaking in secret, she and the Ivy sisters leak the video onto the internet and set fire to Blake’s sports car. With her reputation destroyed, Daisy soon gets wind of the Ivies’ true nature as a power-hungry group of sirens who manipulate men to their advantage and employ blackmail and seduction to achieve their aims, wishing to use the government internship to gain a political foothold in society. She also learns that Alexis Baldwin’s death was not an accident, and is one of a large history of killings that have been covered up by the dean.
Azalea is shocked when Magenta Hart takes her place in the list of candidates applying for the scholarship, and furious at Blake’s deceit, declares war on the Graves family. She threatens to destroy William’s land deed when Daisy attempts to extract herself from the clique, and tasks her with a test of loyalty. Dressed in provocative lingerie, Daisy breaks into the administration building to infiltrate Professor Graves’s office, but upon learning she is to have sex with him, baulks at the suggestion and breaks rank. Having failed to make Daisy one of her own, Azalea seduces Graves herself, impaling his head on a sharp ornament during their coital encounter and framing Daisy for the killing.
A police investigation is launched following Graves’s murder, and Daisy becomes the prime suspect due to her extensive interaction with the Graves family. Facing custody, Daisy makes amends with Blake and upon discovering that the Ivies have been manipulating her all along, visits Azalea’s home to seek solace. Through desperate pleas of forgiveness, she manages to get Azalea to admit her murderous behavior and the attempt to set her up. Discovering that the confession has been recorded, Azalea attacks Daisy in a rage with a sword, and a fight ensues in the Ivy swimming pool. Daisy pretends to drown, and then overpowers Azalea from behind, knocks her head on the pool steps. Having admitted her part in the cover-up, Dean Graves leads the police to the scene, where Daisy submits the recording proving her innocence and an unconscious Azalea is taken into custody.
Following the ordeal, Daisy is given the rest of the semester off. With four years of a prestigious scholarship ahead, she leaves Berkshire campus, returning to her farm in Iowa to resume her relationship with Will for the summer. As the two reunite, her Ivy tattoo is shown to now depict a Daisy.

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Review:
This movie had some potential in the script, and the actors had moments where they shined through, but for the most part this movie was a muddled mess.The plot to this film seems like it was originally intended for teenage girls.
If that had been the case, and the nudity and rather boring sex scenes had been excised I could understand a market for this type of film.
Maybe if the plot had been sexed up a little, with more emphasis on the sexual politics and seduction I could understand it being a late night movie, but in the end the movie is a mess.
It seems like soft core porn for middle school girls who enjoy staring at fake breasts.The movie is rather dull, the story doesn't really kick in till the final five minutes, the direction is flat, and most of the actors seem like they are about to break out laughing during the scenes.
This one is a confused, muddled mess that never decides if it wants to be a slightly dirty version of Mean Girls or a late night cable flick.Skip it..
Small town girl Daisy (Miriam McDonald of Degrassi: The Next Generation fame) attempts to start anew, leaving her steady boyfriend and country life to go to a New England college.
She soon becomes embroiled in the manipulation of the secretive feminist Ivy Society, a clandestine club who has many members as well as finds a new love interest in Blake, the dean's son.Having nothing at all to do with the first three Poison Ivy films, this is merely a slightly below average soft-core (the DVD sexes up the version that debuted on television) female version of "the Skulls".
Seeing Miriam shed some clothes might be worthwhile for fans of hers, but that's all there is to recommend this movie.Eye Candy: Miriam McDonald & Shawna Waldron both get topless; 2 extras also get topless My Grade: D DVD Extras: No extras for the movie itself but an anti-piracy psa; corporate schilling for Blu-Ray; trailers for "Alien Raiders", "Friday the 13th", "Wonder Woman"; "Where the f**k is Santa?", & the X-box 360 games "Tomb Raider: Underworld".
In one movie, I'd love to see a character like this get so far in flirting and then be told the guy was gay and she was wasting her time.
Two later films have featured Alyssa Milano and Jaime Pressly playing characters with different names but not dis-similar roles.
All three films were essentially trashy melodramas, none achieved an IMDb viewer rating above the mid way point; but not because of poor acting, they all gave the career of their star a useful boost.
Unfortunately it did not come off - like its predecessors this is a trashy melodrama with a transparent and overworked story spiced up with eye candy to increase its appeal; but not sure what audience it is really trying to attract.
Ivy returns to this film in the guise of a University secret society - the Ivy Women's Society - which has established a dangerous influence on the administrative machinery of the University, and under the guidance of its current President (Azalea, played by Shawna Waldron) is prepared to go to any lengths, including violence if necessary, in order to maintain this.
An unsophisticated country girl (Daisy, played by Miriam McDonald) who has decided to seek a University education following the death of her parents, improbably proves to be her most serious obstacle.
For example PI-4 includes a totally ludicrous and unnecessary bondage sequence showing new recruits to the "Secret" Society being tattooed during their initiation.My TV version of PI-4 incorporated virtually no nudity but the Parent's Guide notes in this database just comprises the comment "nudity throughout".
I understand the first release on television was a bowdlerised version, a number of spicy sequences intended to increase its appeal were added for a limited cinema release and later an even more spicy unrated DVD was released.
Ideally the Parent's Guide should relate to the cinema release, but once a film has made its rounds in the movie houses most prospective fresh viewers will only see either a heavily cut TV version or a spiced up DVD, probably designed for the young married viewers who rent or buy most DVD's today.
The TV version of PI-4 runs about 84m and the DVD 95m - for very different reasons neither is suitable for children's viewing.
This wide gulf in running times between TV versions and DVD versions for many films which are no longer regularly screened can nullify the value of IMDb Parent's Guide notes even though we all recognise they are of great importance to worried parents.
Furthermore, when added sequences in DVD versions are designed to appeal to a different audience, they are often incompatible and spoil whatever appeal the original film had.
Often I have wanted to contribute to these guidance notes, but found this almost impracticable because multiple versions of the film exist.
Perhaps IMDb could open a blog for further discussion - it would not be relevant here.My advice is to stay away from either version of PI-4 - the only reason to watch is if you are interested in its two young stars.
But, whilst Cruel Intentions was a very good film, Poison Ivy-4 only rates 2 stars..
Out of all the "Poison Ivy" I have seen, this one is like none of the three.
Here you have an orphaned teen named Daisy(Miriam McDonald), who lives in a small town ranch, who gets to go to s very prestigious college.
The leader Azalea(Shawna Waldron), seduces Blake one afternoon to get ahead.
Blake would warn Daisy about Azalea and the Ivy society.
Onetime child stars Miriam McDonald and Shawna Waldron go the Alyssa Milano route, trying to prove how grown-up they are by taking their clothes off in a terrible Poison Ivy movie.
All the Poison Ivy movies are awful but this one, which doesn't actually have anything to do with any of the others, makes Milano's look like Gone with the Wind by comparison.
McDonald and Waldron may look good but their acting skills have not grown with their bodies.
McDonald plays Daisy, an innocent country bumpkin who goes away to college.
She gets mixed up with the school's powerful all-female secret society, the Ivies.
Anyhow, Waldron plays Azalea, the key figure in this cabal of stupid girls.
Azalea wants some internship, she's afraid Daisy might get it.
this movie goes in a different direction and does not follow the first 3 Poison Ivy films..
this one has a girl starting her life over at a New England college.
but anyways to be honest I bought this just for all of the hot girls in this movie,, and the DVD added it was unrated.
but the movie wasn't bad at all , actually had some depth and plot to it,, a real mystery for awhile,, .
I think this one would stand alone and really didn't need to be even named poison ivy,, but I really liked the film and was surprise some of the young girls actually could act instead of just look great naked..
After the death of her parents, Danielle "Daisy" Brooks (Miriam McDonald) sells the family farm and leaves behind her boyfriend to transfer to Beckshire College.
The Ivy Society led by Azalea Berges (Shawna Waldron) dismisses the poor new student until Blake (Ryan Kennedy) takes an interest.
Magenta is Daisy's film student roommate.
Daisy starts working for Blake's mother dean Elisabeth Graves (Catherine Hicks).
Azalea wants a prized internship but Daisy has the inside track.This is most notable for the sexy Icebox.
Check this one out if you like suspense, seduction and mystery all in one movie..
And why the hell was the ugly brunette Society leader chick believe everything the professor's son said?!!!
( She was waaaay too ugly for that role).And it's a good thing that the other Ivy member (the prettier one) suddenly had a change of heart and decided to help Daisy for no logical reason.On the other hand, this movie is great for men and young boys who are too afraid to buy porn..
I have a bit of a soft spot for bad B-movies made by naive filmmakers who seem to think that they are doing a good job.
Those movies that will never get the exposure like 'The Hobbit' gets, due to the very limited release; mostly the umpteenth direct-to-DVD sequels nobody ever heard of from a franchise (loosely applied) they hardly know, and very few will ever rent or buy, especially when it receives a considerable amount of beating from all kinds of review sites.I happened to catch this naughty little underachiever recently in its unrated DVD edition.
Now I'll admit that 'Poison Ivy 4: The Secret Society' is a movie to steer clear from: it is a B-movie in any sense of the word, with risible acting, sub-par screenplay, below average directing and very limited production values (the music and photography are too generic to make an impression).
Especially bad movies get an increasingly worse reputation from people who haven't seen it, but simply copy the judgments of others and then add some.
now THAT is a reason!" Now, you could describe Poison Ivy 4 as 'god-awful', but that would be overstating it.
Much of that is thanks to Miriam McDonald as the unconvincing leading lady Daisy.
She couldn't act her way out of a dating site commercial, but somehow she was cast as a cute freshman out-of-town genius who gets admitted into a highly exclusive college course.
She is supposed to be very smart, straight A's and all, yet she is so adorably naive to have sex on the first date with an obvious bad boy who has the word 'womanizer' practically burnt into his forehead.
The sorority itself is ruled by a queen bee called Azalea (Shawna Waldron) with equally limited acting skills.
You keep wondering how effective Azalea is as leader of this supposedly powerful and secret society: it is supposed to have influences everywhere, but outside, nothing more than a rumor; yet everyone on campus seems to know and warn about it.
Strangely, the secret and sophisticatedly-sounding motto, 'Concordia res parvae crescunt' (small things grow through harmony), is proudly displayed on their headquarters (I assume the writers chose it since it was already displayed on the building where they were allowed to film).Not much is unpredictable or surprising in the remainder of the movie, although this all-powerful organization is surprisingly easily defeated.
Some of the older actors (like Greg Evigan as the professor) do a lot better than the younglings, except for the female detective, who even beats Daisy in underacting (but isn't as cute).
There is some nice, non-offensive nudity, twice from Azalea pretending to be a femme fatale (at least her body language is better than her acting), and twice from Daisy (she is required to be completely nude for a tattoo on her lower back, so don't worry, all functional :-).
The fact that it was released by New Line Cinema, a quality house since the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, may signify that they intended to produce a genuinely smart erotic thriller cross-breed of 'The Craft' and 'The Skulls'.
Next time, read the script first, guys.Not wanting to kick an already dead horse, I maintain that while I do not applaud or recommend this movie, judging it has not been without a sense of (guilty) pleasure.
It should be mandatory viewing for those who claim that most of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood is really really bad, because nothing puts things back in perspective than a genuinely mediocre movie.
***SPOILERS**** The film "Posion Ivy" is a womens or girls version of the super secretive Yale Skull & Bones Club.
It's when out of town as well as state student Daniel "Daisy" Brooks, Miriam McDonald, arrives at the exclusive New England Beckshire Collage that she catches the eye of the president of the all womens Ivy Club the sexy and witch-like Azalea-the name fits-Burgess played by Shawna Waldron who seems to have the hots for the very naive as well as pretty country girl.
After Daisy's parents were killed in a car crash a year ago she have a major life change and decided to leave home as well as her boyfriend farmer Will, Brendon Penny, and get a degree in international politics in order to broaden her horizons and end up getting elected for high office.
It didn't take that long for Daisy to realize that her life was going to change not for what she hoped to be the better but for the worst.It was Blake , Ryan Kennedy,the son of professor Andrew Graves, Greg Euigan, who clued Daisy into what to expect by at first trying to hit in on her.
The way to make it big in this place Beckshire Collage Blake hints is for Daisy is join the all womens Ivy League or Club and then all her troubles in making her grades in class as well as romantic endeavors & financial problems will all be over.
Being a straight A student Daisy didn't have to worry about her grades but when her bank account, that she's paying her tuition with, mysteriously dried up she decides to join the club that turned out the biggest mistake she made in her entire life.***SPOILERS*** It in fact was Azalea who started the downfall of the secretive Ivy Club in her greedy attempt to get professor Graves to give her passing marks in his political science class.
That's when Azalea started to target both Professor Graves and his son Blake in retaliation for her personal failure in him not getting her a passing mark in his class!
The by now completely out of control Azalea went so far as embarrassing Daisy who didn't put out for her, in getting the professor to pass her, by secretly video taping her having sex with Blake Graves and putting the entire hot XXX-rated no holds bar and all clothes off sequence on the internet.
It was when Azalea went a bit too far in murdering Professor Graves, for giving her failing grades, and trying to frame Daisy with the crime that her goose was finally cooked or in this case drowned.
Getting Azalea , through a hidden tape audio recorder,to admit her crime or crimes in her having another girl murdered for not following orders resulted into a violent cat fight between the two sexy and scantly clothed girls.
But with now the news becoming public about the secretively Ivy Club and even worse then that in exposing it's #1 man or in this case woman being non other then the late professor Graves' wife the Dean of Beckshire Collage Elisabeth Graves, Catherine Hicks, that turned out to be the final nail on its coffin.
I really liked Miriam on Degrassi, I think she's an excellent actress...Bu this role put her in such a bad light.I didn't see all of the movie, but what I did see was way too much for TV.
It seemed more like a porno because of the lack of concept than an actual movie.
In the scene where they asked the girls if they wanted in, they looked at each other instead of deciding for themselves.
I'm pretty sure there's a law against forcing someone to get a tattoo..But I guess since it's a movie, they don't have to be realistic?I think this movie is only good for pubescence boys to get their jollies off.
I have not seen any of the other Poison Ivy movies, but I know the premise had to do with a young seductress, along the lines of Amy Fisher.
This movie, which I think would be part four, doesn't really have much to do with that formula, although they do end up putting in a scene between a student and a teacher.This episode is more like the Skulls series--a secret society that sucks in an innocent country girl and draws her into a world of manipulation.
The majority of the kids she interacts with are there because they have money, and bit by bit, she is distracted from her studies until she is caught up in their world of deceit.What I didn't like about this movie is that everything was completely formulaic--I had seen it all before, and knew where it was all going.
In addition, the resolution was completely ridiculous--the girl gets a taped confession that supposedly brings down the entire infrastructure of the secret society.
It's one of those movies that could only appeal to kids who are too young for the subject matter, because anyone older than early teens already knows what's going to happen anyway..
Entirely predictable tale about a country girl who goes to college only to find that a secret society ( sorority) is enacting murder on campus with impunity.
From the point of her arrival to the climactic cat fight with the leader of the "Ivy Society," she spends her time dating an instructor's glib, overconfident and basically spineless son, Blake.
He performs a role like a male lead in a porn film and nothing more is required of him.Blake is sexing her as well as the villain.
Both women conduct themselves in bed aggressively exactly as you would expect a sex worker to perform, country girl or no.When she hands the Ivy Society over to the police, she returns home for the summer to the boy she left behind, whom she promises a lifetime of her sexual favors.
Just because Miriam is in this movie was the reason I wanted to see it.
I am really happy to see that Miriam is trying to move her acting career into a more mature field, though Degrassi is a very mature show.I am looking forward to the DVD release and I strongly recommend this movie to many people who are fans of Miriam, Degrassi, or the Poison Ivy series.Vote: 10