★★★★★ REFORM SCHOOL GIRLs

Directed by Tom DeSimone.
Cast: Sybil Danning, Wendy Orlean Williams, Pat Ast, Linda Carol

Synopsis

From the opening scene when our sexy heroine Jenny Williams, played by the mint Linda Carol, screams through a broken windshield with the title credit superimposed over her in schlocky 50's True Crime fashion, you know your are witnessing the catalyast of WIP filmmaking. This is a great film. Probably the best WIP film ever. DeSimone goes beyond parody, and enters a realm of homage and sheer debaucherous delight. Pat Ast is the lesbian guard in charge of Ilsa wannabe Sybil Danning's Reform School of cruelty. Every WIP convention is played out with over the top results.

For example, the cliche insecure newbie with that certain object that keeps her together, only to be destroyed by the guard/queen Bee/ warden, in this treatment involves a kitten that is gleefully stomped on by evil Pat Ast. Normally you get 1 or 2 catfights in a WIP film. In Reform School Girls you get half a dozen, multiple shower scenes, and several riots! And did I mention the nudity? From the fist 5 minutes we get full frontal, and they keep piling it on with quality naked body after another shown in the most lingering exploitive fashion. Wendy O. Williams is hilarious as the 30+ year old locked down in the Reform school. She brutally controls the other inmates, and gets special treatment from Pat Ast. When the warden starts cracking down, and Williams has to perform such chores as pouring tea while other inmates slave in the field, she cries, "This hard labor shit sucks." Wendy O was made for this part with her gravily voice delivering some classic lines, and her demise is in total Plasmatics fashion. Tom DeSimone packs more into this WIP film than 5 of your average WIP flicks. Even with the modest budget, and the mainstream theatrical release this film had, he kept it sleazy.

When we walk into the Pridemore Juvenile Facility, we are barraged with early 80's big hair garter belt Heavy Metal girls. A product of the era, but one that will add to the campiness of this cult classic.