Review of High School Hellcats (1958) by Alexandra W — 17 May 2012

So this movie starts out strong--a fabulously dressed '50s girl gang sitting around plotting whom to initiate next (and the sullen one throws a switchblade against the wall) and then a ridiculous title sequence featuring a chalk board and some swingin' music and then a classroom scene in which the girl gang tortures their hapless male Home Ec sub by making a lot of puns and throwing things. But then Lame-O Heroine Girl comes along, and then the movie's about her rebelling against her white-bread, conservative family and getting a lame boyfriend. Then, halfway through, the leader of the girl gang dies by falling down like 4 steps, and it's all downhill into a lame mystery from there. But Sullen Switchblade Girl becomes the leader of the pack and gets to brandish her switchblade quite a bit and wear very boldly striped blouses, among other awesome '50 apparel.

On a related note, none of these girls looked half bad ass enough. They were all wearing pretty conservative sweater sets and below-the-knee skirts that weren't even that tight. I was expecting stuff more along the lines of the cover art. No dice. They all looked more like Sandy than Rizzo, that's for sure.