Review of Reform School Girls (1986) by Sausages M — 21 Jun 2013

I watched this expecting your typical over the top campy women in prison type film, and hmm, I guess I wasn't disappointed. But this film is confused. On the one hand you have the typical WIP stuff- bulldyke guards, tough girls, a 'vulnerable' one, and lots of catfighting.

But on the other you have a serious look at prison brutality, and a lot of graphic violence. It makes for uneven viewing- but I suppose given the decade it was made in this film could only ever be like it was.

Too late in the day to be campy and soapy and too early in the day to be "Sleepers"; it unsuccessfully tries to be both. Linda Carol is good and Wendy O. Williams is so-bad-it's-good, but Edna's brutality is played for laughs but doesn't quite work as she's a genuine psychopath.

I kept waiting for them to triumph but it never quite came, and the last 5 minutes wasn't explained and made no sense. Because of the serious themes they brought into play, it needed another 5 or 10 minutes between the EXPLOSIVE conclusion and the 'la de da' ending, but there was none.

Was it cut? Who knows! Bizarre.