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Wendy O. Williams as Charlie Chambliss in Reform School Girls (1986)
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#1986#wendy o williams#sybil danning#pat ast#reform school girls#80s films#80s cult films#cult film#1980s#80s#80s fashion#80s nostalgia#80s music#80s hair#80s movies#80s aesthetic#80s make up#film posters#film poster art#80s action movies
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Yvette Vickers as Roxy wearing white short shorts in Reform School Girl (1957)
#yvette vickers#roxy#reform school girls#short shorts#shorts#mini shorts#legs#long legs#bare legs#1950s#50s#movies#film#1950s movies#50s movies#1957#black and white images
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Happy Birthday Sybil Danning!
Tall, leggy, buxom and statuesque 5'7" blonde beauty Sybil Danning reigns supreme as one of the sexiest, most dynamic and commanding actresses to achieve cult B-movie queen status. She was born Sybille Johanna Danninger in Wels, Austria, the daughter of a US Army major father and an Austrian mother. She grew up on army bases in such places as New Jersey, Maryland and Sacramento, California. Sybil attended Etontown's Star of the Sea Catholic School. At age 14 she worked for her uncle as a dental assistant. Two years later she moved to Vienna, Austria, and worked for a dental supply company. She then relocated to Salzburg and worked as an assistant to a top oral surgeon.
Danning then enrolled in the Buchner School of Cosmetology in Salzburg and received a diploma in facial treatment, decorative make-up, manicure and body massage. She soon began doing fashion shows and photo layouts. Danning made her film debut as Lorelei in Komm nur, mein liebstes Vögelein (1968).
She next portrayed Kriemhild in The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried (1972). Sybil studied for three years with noted Munich drama coach Anne-Marie Hanschke. Sybil made memorable appearances in such mainstream features as Bluebeard (1972), The Three Musketeers (1973), Crossed Swords (1977) and The Concorde Airport '79 (1979).
She also continued to act in such enjoyably lowbrow exploitation items as Naughty Nymphs (1972), Loves of a French Pussycat (1972), and Cat in the Cage (1978). Danning was especially excellent and impressive as the fierce Valkyrie warrior Saint-Exmin in the science-fiction cult classic Battle Beyond the Stars (1980).
Other notable roles are tough prison inmate Ericka in the babes-behind-bars classic Chained Heat (1983), a formidable female swordfighter in The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983), wicked werewolf queen Stirba in Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985), a cunning femme fatale English professor in They're Playing with Fire (1984), the Queen of the Moon in the hilarious Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), the strict Warden Sutter in the amusing chicks-in-chains parody Reform School Girls (1986), an alien queen in The Phantom Empire (1988) and a rugged lady bounty hunter in L.A. Bounty (1989).
#Sybil Danning#Roger Corman#Battle Beyond the Stars#Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf#They'e Playing with Fire#LA Bounty#Reform School Girls#The Three Musketeers#Superboy
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A very happy birthday to Sybil Danning!!
#sybil danning#battle beyond the stars#they’re playing with fire#actress#Malibu express#Hercules#howling II: your sister is a werewolf#chained heat#reform school girls#Panther squad#amazon women on the moon#jungle warriors
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Wendy O. Williams
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Front page of my middle school diary!
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Watch Party Watch: Reform School Girls (1986)
I'm sure this movie had a poster, but mostly existed as a worn out VHS
Watched: 04/28/2023
Format: Amazon Watch Party
Viewing: Unknown
Director: Tom DeSimone
So, first: Apologies. It's probably best that I actually remember the movies we're going to watch more than a few key scenes. This movie turned out to be a bit much more than I recalled it being, and I find it insane I was watching this on cable when I was like, 13.
Ah, the 1980's.
I was a bit surprised that no one had seen this, and many never heard of it. It's a cult-classic of the 1980's, and a lot of what made it so has faded in the ensuing 37 years.
This is a movie that, as Jenifer put it, covers all the tropes of the "women in prison movie" and then cranks up the exploitation (this is New World Pictures, one of the Roger Corman brands). So, it's assuming an audience that has grown up on slew of "women in prison" pictures that started showing up post WWII as earnest socially conscious filmmaking paired with, you know, ladies kicking each other, which was a novelty. Plus a host of other sketchy activities, some explicit, many implied.
1983's Chained Heat - which stars Sybil Danning but as a prisoner - is a pretty good indicator of what was going on at this point. It has legit actors (Henry Silva, John Vernon) but is clearly an exploitation picture. Mostly I remember 1980's-me wandering the aisles of the video store and being acutely aware there was more than one movie about women in jail, and some vague promise of sexiness. But since my Mom was paying, I was not asking to see these films.
Reform School Girls is loosely based on the 1957 film Reform School Girl, which I have not seen. But also familiar if you've seen other pictures. It's mostly been forgotten, but 1980's hip young adults were very into reflecting back the absurdities of the 1950's American monoculture. If you go back and watch other 1980's movies, usually lower budget stuff, but you can see the Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, etc... But also much as folks like myself born in the 70's grew up with 4 or 5 channels, most of which was reruns of stuff from decades prior. So, yeah, I imagine replays of those old movies were part of all that.*
The movie itself follows a teen girl who gets in trouble with the law, which lands her in court and on to "reform school" (but good luck pointing out when anyone is in class in this movie). The movie hits all the notes of prison and women in prison films, starting with the "you don't know what you're in for" messaging to the lead and therefore us. And then cue the humiliations of entering prison, paired with the exploitation of a 1980's Corman flick. And that's when I realized "oh yeah. This is probably full of nudity", which is an awkward moment with a chat full of people.
The movie's stars are Sybil Danning (who many dudes of a certain age has a passing knowledge), Pat Ast (whom you should Google), and Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics, who is 37 and playing... 45? and 17? I dunno, but I've thought she was great since I was 13 or 14. And then actually stars a supposedly 16 year old Linda Carol (I am suspicious of her listed birth year) as our POV character hero.
I *do* think the movie is funnier than was taken by the group. Everything is at 11. It's all absurd, including the atrocities of the film, and that's kind of the point. But maybe that's just not where we're at these days. We kind of are more aware of actual exploitation in a way the 1980's was not. But the movie could have leaned into the absurdity more and had fun with it instead of saying "no, the joke is how woefully dark this is going to get, and we're going to refuse to take it seriously".
All in all, I wish I'd revisited it solo, but here we are.
*it's funny. Growing up in Austin, we really didn't have much in the way of TV on local channels after 10:30 PM except SNL. I read lot of references to latenight movies playing on local TV, but by the late 1980's, I was watching Reform School Girls on cable, not the movies that inspired it. I don't remember what would have been playing on our UHF channel, if, in fact, they hadn't signed off. I suspect the larger cities of the 1970s had more of this, but we just didn't.
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First time watching. Thank you Vinegar Syndrome!
Currently watching: REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS (1986)
#currently watching#reform school girls#vinegar syndrome#blu ray#cult#cult film#genre film#basement theater#home theater#punk rock#wendy o williams
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Reform School Girls (Tom DeSimone, 1986)
Now a rewatch inspired by the Reform School Girls poster conspicuously and baselessly on Corey Haim’s wall in The Lost Boys. And rewatching this now older: captures the spirit of the caged women genre really well but it needs to go further over the edge. Wendy O. Williams remains great. I’m not sure if this will inspire a rewatch of another movie but of course I immediately watched the music video for The Damned.
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movie poster - Reform School Girl - Jul 1957
artist unknown
#golden age art#movie poster art#pulp art#pulp art 1957#Reform School Girl#artist unknown#byronrimbaud
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btw the education system for disabled, neurodivergent and mentally ill students in england is so sub-par it makes me want to scream and cry every single day at work
#i'm trying my best but i can only be in one place at once#dear god we desperately need funding. and reforms. and more specialised schools.#i'm trying not to form attachments to students so it hurts less when the system fails them#but a particular group of girls have a place in my heart and i'm trying to protect them as best i can#and make the miserable miserable miserable experience they're having in education just a little bit brighter#it's so difficult. so so so difficult.
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