Reform School Girls
New World Pictures | Release Date: August 22, 1986 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
4
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60
Variety
Every character is a caricature, from the rifle-toting, Bible-quoting warden (Sybil Danning) to the lineup of lovelies who parade as reform school girls. Pat Ast, as the cantankerous and corpulent head matron, and Williams play their rotten roles to the hilt and get most of the juicy lines. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderPat Graham
They must've been working overtime on the Xerox machines at New World Pictures, since this 1986 women-behind-bars exploitation spoof sounds like a literal remake of 1983's Chained Heat (which was itself a remake of a remake of a remake). Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Loaded with ridiculous scenes, silly dialog, and gratuitous violence and nudity, REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS tries very hard to exploit the genre while poking fun at it at the same time. The only problem here is that little is funny. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneDave Kehr
The performers never find the right spin on the dialogue, and DeSimone never finds the right rhythm in his pacing, to make these deliberate cliches take off into comedy. A stodgy literalness in DeSimone`s approach suffocates the joke. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesPatrick Goldstein
Don’t let the cartoonlike ads for Reform School Girls fool you. The movie has been billed as an outlandish sendup of the women-behind-bars genre, but that’s just wishful thinking--or part of the movie’s cynical hype. “Girls” is far too feeble to qualify as a raunchy prison parody. It’s more of a brainless homage, in the clunky way that “Rambo” and “Missing in Action” paid tribute to “The Green Berets.” Read full review
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The New York TimesNina Darnton
The publicity release describes it as ''an outlandish action parody.'' But for those among us who don't get a kick out of seeing young girls branded with hot metal, beaten by rubber hoses, terrified, brutalized and driven to suicide, the movie isn't exactly a thousand laughs. Read full review
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