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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.

I've liked every prison movie I've ever seen. I'm not sure what makes them all so interesting, but maybe it triggers a sense of "What would you do in this situation?" kind of interesting.But in all honesty, the only real reason I sat down to see reform school girls was Sherri Stoner, who played Lisa. As a big animaniacs fan, it's kind of sad to see Sherri's serious dramatic talent wasted on this film, considering she wrote some of the funniest Animaniacs bits.The movie begins in a back alley where main character Jenny (Linda Carol) gets caught up in a shoot-out against her will. As a result, she ends up in reform school, being booked in with Lisa (Sherri Stoner) who is being brought in for being a constant runaway. The 2 of them are subjected to numerous inhumanities during their time in reform school, which is run more like a prison by it's Warden (Sybil Danning) the notorious Edna (Pat Ast) who in turn controls the meanest of the girls, Charlie (Wendy. O. Williams) If you're going to see this movie, be prepared for a lot of cheese. Cause there's lots of it. Not all the girls are as good as the others when it comes to acting, at times it feels like a softcore porn flick over a prison film. But that's the charm of the movie too. it's aim is to be a parody of the WIP (Women in Prison) films that were made before it.If you've got nothing to do for 90 minutes, it's worth a view.

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.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* A nice girl ends up in a woman's prison. Actually it's not really a prison but a reform school. Actually it's not really a school but one big room where all of the girls lounge around in their underwear and sleep on bunk beds. A hideous woman looks over them and tries to teach them that it's all about control. She has it and they don't. The nice girl starts getting bullied by a hard looking, hard bodied woman who sleeps in the bunk next to hers. How this woman, who looks like she's pushing 45, is still in a reform school is not explained. Sybil Danning shows up as the warden of the school but she leaves the day to day operation to the nasty, control-freak boss lady."Reform School Girls" is a letdown. The most important thing to know about this one is that Sybil Danning does not get naked. I found this to be shocking. She keeps her giant black jacket on throughout the entire movie. A buttoned-up Danning in a woman's prison flick? What the heck? It made me very sad. Danning does nothing in this one. No beatings, no torture, no nothing. Sitting on her hands is not the usual M.O. for a warden in a woman's prison flick.Anyway, the rest of the movie can't save the Danning disaster. There are two or three shower scenes. They're nice in their own gratuitous nudity kind of way but these scenes are few and far between. The exploitation scenes were missing in action but we are treated to scenes of the girls taking care of the new kitten they've found. Wow. Great. "Reform School Girls" didn't have its heart in the right place. Woman's prisons flicks are about naked women suffering inhuman violence behind prison walls until they can't take it anymore. This movie just couldn't get with the program. It can be skipped.