Directed by: Tom DeSimone
Stars: Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast, Sybil Danning, Charlotte McGinnis, Sherri Stoner, Denise Gordy
Language: English
Country: Usa | Imdb Info
Description: Linda Carol plays Jenny, a hot teen shipped off by the state to a deteriorating (is there any other kind?) reform school, headed by Ilsa-like Warden Sutter (Sybil Danning) and watched over by the hilariously evil and over-the-top matron, Edna (Pat Ast), who does a terrific job making you absolutely despise her. A state-appointed psychologist (Charlotte McGinnis) becomes concerned by Edna’s treatment of the girls, not to mention the occasional “suicide” this treatment produces. As the doctor struggles to get the ever-impotent state to step in, the girls take matters into their own hands and the film culminates in a violent, bloody, punk rock showdown between the broads and the guards.
The cast is excellent. You have the usual prison inmate clichés (neccesary for any great women’s prison flick) but the actresses are all top notch. Late-great Wendy O. Williams (of punk band The Plasmatics) is AWESOME as ‘Charlie’, the sadistic cellblock sister with her own gang (beautiful ‘Friday the 13th’ series alumns Tiffany Helm and Darcy DeMoss), but she is SO wired, SO bad-ass, SO insane, and SO rarely wearing much clothing, that she adds a whole new dimension to an otherwise predictable character. Not to mention the fact that, although she looks great, she’s well past reform school age (don’t suffer the delusion that this wasn’t intentional).
Also, Sherri Stoner creates a very sympathetic character as ‘Lisa’, a sweet, innocent, naive, but also traumatized and neurotic girl who’s been shipped from place to place and suffers the most abuse from Edna. You can predict poor Lisa cracking pretty much from the opening credits, but director Tom DeSimone does a GREAT job of building it up and he doesn’t cop out. Kitten and stuffed animal lovers beware.
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