Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
The acting in this movie is really good.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
I've liked every prison movie I've ever seen. I'm not sure what makes them all so interesting, but maybe it triggers a sense of "What would you do in this situation?" kind of interesting.But in all honesty, the only real reason I sat down to see reform school girls was Sherri Stoner, who played Lisa. As a big animaniacs fan, it's kind of sad to see Sherri's serious dramatic talent wasted on this film, considering she wrote some of the funniest Animaniacs bits.The movie begins in a back alley where main character Jenny (Linda Carol) gets caught up in a shoot-out against her will. As a result, she ends up in reform school, being booked in with Lisa (Sherri Stoner) who is being brought in for being a constant runaway. The 2 of them are subjected to numerous inhumanities during their time in reform school, which is run more like a prison by it's Warden (Sybil Danning) the notorious Edna (Pat Ast) who in turn controls the meanest of the girls, Charlie (Wendy. O. Williams) If you're going to see this movie, be prepared for a lot of cheese. Cause there's lots of it. Not all the girls are as good as the others when it comes to acting, at times it feels like a softcore porn flick over a prison film. But that's the charm of the movie too. it's aim is to be a parody of the WIP (Women in Prison) films that were made before it.If you've got nothing to do for 90 minutes, it's worth a view.
It's a WIP movie: Women in Prison. In this "Reform School" the girls night time gear consists of g-string panties, lingerie, high heels... basically sexy to a silly degree. This has all the clichés you want, with nudity, violence, girl fights, all that sort of stuff. Wendy O Williams was great as the ultra violent gang leader Charlie. She also did great work on the sound track.We know this is a WIP cliché film and the purpose is titillation and all that sort of stuff, but it didn't really seem clear to me. A lot of the violence was pretty brutal for the sort of movie it was and many of the scenes are quite realistic, with realistic, emotional performances from some of the key actors, which is quite at odds with that "women in Prison" titillation theme, especially when you have inmates incongruously wearing high heels, thigh high stockings and g-strings to bed!It seemed almost like a bizarre mash-up of two different films that'd been crudely rammed together: You have Wendy O Williams and her gang of ultra-sexy, violent, tough girls, and the huge lumpy, hilariously sadistic and over the top Pat Ast as "Eddie" doing their very best to make it a sort of Rocky Horror Show ridiculous soft core romp (which would have been marvellous), VS this other theme with the sympathetic characters Jenny, Lisa and Dr Norton where it's a serious look at abuse of power and the horrible toll abuse takes on its victims- almost as it they're going for Cool Hand Luke or Full Metal Jacket sort of stuff...That made a weird mix that didn't really fit together well at all. It's as if the film makers were trying to be too smart for the material.
This could be the greatest t&a movie of all time. It's the ultimate 80's women-in-prison movie. It's got loads of nudity, some very sick wardens (the awesome Sybil Danning), and Wendy O. Williams spending most of the film in a g-string! This is a low-budget exploitation film that delivers the goods. There was actually some pretty good acting in the film. If only i would have owned this film when i was 12! It's a fun and cheesy movie that gives you exactly what you'd want from a women-in-prison flick. The scene where Wendy O. Williams crashes a bus is a classic. 80's cheese and squeeze.I highly recommend doing a double feature with Hollywood chainsaw hookers...that'd be a fun night.
Neither a serious WIP drama, like director Tom De Simone's earlier "The Concrete Jungle", nor an outright spoof of the genre in the style of "Naked Gun", "Reform School Girls" is a film that suffers from identity crisis. The serious, sometimes even cruel moments offset the comedy, and the over-the-top moments undermine the seriousness. For a film categorized by Leonard Maltin as a spoof, it's quite astonishing how few not only laughs, but even attempts at comedy this one really contains. It's not a total loss: rocker Wendy O. Williams (who also sings on the soundtrack) has an incredible, ROCKING 37-year-old body which she proudly displays throughout (RIP Wendy), and there is some nice girl vs. girl wrestling. But Sybil Danning, the big "name" of the film, is COMPLETELY wasted - if you're thinking of seeing this for her, forget it. (*1/2)