Review of Switchblade Sisters (1975) by Robin W — 14 Aug 2009

This is a quintessential grindhouse movie that is all-time favorite of Quentin Tarantino, who even managed to get the film a brief theatrical re-release in 1996 under his Rolling Thunder Pictures label; you can definitely see the influence this had on a lot of Tarantino's work, and even contains a character named "Patch" who's a dead ringer for the Elle Driver character in "Kill Bill".

Of course, "Switchblade Sisters" is about as outrageous and campy as you can get, filled with bad acting, ludicrous dialogue, ridiculously dated fashions, and one of the oldest-looking group of high school students ever seen in a film; in the lead role of Lace, Robbie Lee gives what is probably one of the worst performances by an actress in the history of cinema and her over-the-top delivery of her campy dialogue is often laugh-out-loud hysterical ("If you go, it's gonna turn out *baaaaad*").

Of course, director Jack Hill is a master of grindhouse exploitation films, so the picture is a great load fun, and only a curmudgeon wouldn't enjoy a movie with stuff like a machine gun battle at a roller rink and characters named "Muff" and "Donut".