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Reform School Girls | Year: 1986 Classification: Action/Adventure Directed: - Tom DeSimone Actors/Actresses: - Linda Carol - Wendy O. Williams GOOD UN-WHOLESOME FUN.... This is a WAY-Y-Y over-the-top send-up of girls-in-prison movies. Perfectly cast, it's a comic book on film and great fun to watch. Of course, the scene stealers are Warhol alumni Pat Ast as the matron Edna and the Plasmatics' Wendy O.Williams as "Charlie". Both of these ladies are gone now but their contributions live on in this cult classic. Fast paced and with a great soundtrack, you can watch this over and over and still pick up stuff every time. Unfortunately, there is too much female nudity (for a change) that distracts rather than titillates but this is still a rocking movie. The climax is a kicker as well. Good treatment from the folks at Anchor Bay. GOOD OLD FASHIONED CAMPY FUN! ... This movie is absolutely, hands-down, the FUNNIEST, CAMPIEST, most EXPLOITATIVE movie I ever seen! I have shown this movie to all of my friends, everyone from teenagers to corporate business execs to mild mannered housewives and not one have of them hasn't ended up laughing hysterically and agreeing that it isn't absolutely wonderful! The director's intention was to make a spoof of women in prison films, and he accomplishes that goal most successfully. We have a whole host of stereotypical characters - Edna (Pat Ast), the cruel, two ton, drag queen looking, lesbian prison matron; Jenny (Linda Carol), the naive blond who ended up in reform school through associating with a "bad boy"; Claudia (Denise Gordy), the sassy black girl who's sick of whitey pushing her around on "the inside"; and last, but certainly not least, is Charlie Chambliss played by the late diva of punk rock, Miss Wendy O. Williams. Charlie is the head bully at Pridemore Juvenile Facility and asserts her authority in cruel and unusual ways. Sure, Wendy O. was 36 years old in real life and playing a teenager... Sure, no reform school I know of allows the inmates to wear lingerie, high heels, and make up... But these obvious inaccuracies are what makes this movie so hilarious. You'll find yourself quoting lines from it after your first viewing - Example: "You're just a sh!t stain in the panties of life!" ENJOY! The benchmark for women in prison films. As a serious women in prison film collector, I can state that no other film than 'reform school girls' better epitomizes what the genre is about more completely.<BR> It has all the humorous elements one would expect in a such a film; the wicked wardeness, the bad butch girls, the helpless girl, the kitten stomp, shower scenes, fights, brandings, DDT delousing and did I mention shower scenes? Where do girls in a juvenile facility get all that fancy langerie anyway?<BR> Wendy O'Willimas puts in a convincing and moving performance as a wicked correctional official and seems to delight in her evil role. Sybil Danning makes an extended cameo that was mandatory for a film of this type in the 1980's.<BR> Although it lacks the gladitorial competitions of 'Lust for Freedom' or the exploitative child birth scene of 'Bad Girls Dormitory', it is cheerful and builds up gradually to a frenzy of revolutionary fervor. This film will definitely not disappoint. <BR>This is also a good film for those new to the genre and those who enjoy the excesses of the 80's. Buy Reform School Girls at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Reform School Girls Search with the Priority Search Engine on Reform School Girls This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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