Reform School Girls (1986)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Expected more

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

A mildly scuzzy women-in-prison movie of the 1980s, REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS is far too cheesy to be a successful movie. It was somehow posited as a spoof of the then-popular movie, but the laughs are in short supply unless you find terrible overacting amusing. The story is the usual mix of prison flick cliches, rivalry, gang culture, exploitative shower scenes, and cruelty. Sybil Danning has a small role as the warden but the cast is mostly unknown. It does get unpleasant at times - that branding scene! - but overall it feels remarkably light and insubstantial, with a real lack of characterisation making it hard to care about what happens to any of the cast. Wendy O. Williams steals all her scenes as the resident psycho.

First, I'm not a huge fan of Women in Prison films (W.I.P.), but like every men, i love beautiful women in underwear and thongs so this kind of movies always deliver in that department, at least. Reform School Girls is more like a parody of the genre, or at least a not-that serious movie. Its in the line of those Troma movies like "Lust for freedom" or "They call me macho woman". Wendy O. Williams is here performing a bad girl and she is always in thong, just like every other chick in this movie.Well, except for the obese wicked warden, thanks god she keeps her clothes on. Also there is plenty of rock n roll and punk music, much of them performed by Wendy O Williams herself. Thats another highlight. There isn't a lot of nudity, and near no sex. Thats a letdown for this kind of movies but overall, its entertaining and it features very good rock n roll music. 5/10

My friends and I are always looking for the diamond in the rough (as it were), that one movie that's just so bad it serves as the topic of conversation for the next few days. I read a few comments after viewing this movie and don't think people realized: This movie is exactly what it claimed to be.Sure it's hardly an example of a "good" movie, but the increasing ridiculousness of the story was matched only by the quality of the cinematography. Sure they could have spent more time on a foley stage, but when you're looking at a room full of naked women showering, who cares? The only gripe was about one character who obviously didn't belong in a juvenile detention center. As my friend pointed out, they neglected to tell her it was reform school, not old school.All in all, get some friends, get some buds and prepare to be entertained. The only thing missing from this reform school is a giant tub of Jell-O.

Taking time out from the John Wayne Marathon for a public service. In anticipation of our favorite heiress going to jail next month, I wanted something that she might watch to give her an idea of what to expect, I found this movie with some bizarre characters like Wendy Williams, lead singer for the infamous 80s punk rock band, 'The Plasmatics,' who committed suicide a few years ago. She was absolutely beyond belief as she paraded the entire movie in leather or panties, and even a thong at the end.Of course there was Sybil Danning, from the Grindhouse segment Werewolf Women of the SS as the bible-spouting Warden, who looked the part of an SS She-Wolf.Pat Ast was the 350-lb matron who burned a bunny, stomped on a kitten and got justice for her evil laugh.There were two shower scenes and one Rambo-type fire hose scene that was way more cool that Rambo: First Blood.Food fights, girl fights, riots, and bra and panties for most of the movie. Our little heiress should get a good taste of prison life with this film.