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Directed by Tom DeSimone
USA 1986
The Pridemore Juvenile Detention Facility isn't just a place for troubled teenage girls to serve their time. Instead, it's a living hell filled with sexual depravity and violence. Jenny, a fresh inmate, becomes the de facto protector of Lisa, an innocent young girl forced to be a plaything to anyone after her body. Then there's Charlie, a hardened teenaged lesbian who torments her fellow prisoners through brutal acts of sexual sadism. But no one instills more fear in even the toughest girls than the sadistic Edna who, with a blind eye turned by money-hungry Warden Sutter, delights in terrorizing her beautiful prisoners. However, the girls have had enough and things are about to change at Pridemore...
From acclaimed cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone (The Concrete Jungle), REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS is a sublimely trashy and over-the-top women in prison/juvenile delinquent classic, reframed for the grimy punk sensibilities of the 1980s. Starring punk rock superstar Wendy O. Williams (Candy Goes to Hollywood), cult film legend Sybil Danning (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times), and featuring a career performance from former Warhol Superstar Pat Ast (Paul Morrissey's Heat). *** 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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Theatrical Release: August 22nd, 1986
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Review: Vinegar Syndrome - Region FREE - Blu-ray
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Runtime | 1:34:29.163 | |
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1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 45,463,091,289 bytesFeature: 27,958,839,936 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.94 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Release Information: Studio: Vinegar Syndrome
1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 45,463,091,289 bytesFeature: 27,958,839,936 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.94 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Archival commentary track with writer/director Tom DeSimone• Commentary track with Queer Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell • "So Young, So Bad, So What" - an extended making-of documentary featuring brand new interviews with it's cast and crew (54:13) • "Pat Ast Superstar" - an interview with theatrical producer Alan Eichler (7:35) • "Ode o Wendy" - an interview with author and critic Breanna Whipple on the life and career of actress Wendy O. Williams (6:44) • Video footage from the play "Women Behind Bars" (1:12:07) • Original trailers (2:21 / 0:56) Reversible cover artwork
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Vinegar Syndrome use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Reform School Girls
has plenty of aggressive moments with the gals taking umbrage on
everything they can - including each other. There is some restrained
depth. The music is composed by Dan Siegel (his only feature score), sounding clean
if authentically unremarkable via the lossless transfer. Vinegar
Syndrome offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region FREE
Blu-ray.
The Vinegar Syndrome
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Tom DeSimone's Reform School Girls
is more serious than spoof, imo - but even the 'serious' can produce
some nostalgic smiles. DeSimone has done his fair share of 'adult' films
and a few 'women
in prison' efforts like 82's
The Concrete Jungle
and before that Chained and Prison Girls in the early 70s.
This is probably more aptly described as an homage with Wendy O.
Williams, Pat Ast and unforgettable she-devil Sybil Danning who is
remembered for many titillating tiles including
Chained Heat (another of this genre) and Rob Zombie's fake
trailer "Werewolf Women of the S.S." for "Grindhouse"
release. She is still working today. I have a real soft-spot for this
genre - even the more exploitive variety. Reform School Girls
is actually what you might anticipate - catfights, nudity, violence,
foul-mouthed, street-smart characters and an abused innocent one. I am
pleased with the Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray
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