Laughably bad girl gang flick, with every imaginable genre cliché. It appears to have been shot on a shoestring budget with an all-amateur cast. With lesbian prison guards, Mao-quoting black revolutionaries, drug dealing youth counselors, a one-eyed female Iago, a shootout in a roller disco rink, bathroom swirlies, and the inevitable girl-girl switchblade dual for leadership of the Jezebels. West Side Story, this ain't. A couple of years ago that well-known patron of the arts, Quentin Tarantino, redistributed it on his Rolling Thunder label; you can see where he gets his love of strong female characters. (For another example of Rolling Thunder product, see Amazing Peking Man, a risible Asian rip-off of King Kong.)
Review of Switchblade Sisters
