Malibu High

This is a must own. Even if you own this on one of many budget boxed sets - it looks and sounds amazing. Watching the VS bluray is like a first viewing. Great exploitation. Notable among the cast is Alex Mann (billed here as... I forgot). Anyway, he had another career in some of the roughest and infamous adult movies of all time, including Sometimes Sweet Susan (immortalized in Taxi Driver) and the even more infamous The Defiance of Good (starring Joe Spinell's wife, Jean Jennings, fresh from a Sean S. Cunningham soft core quickie and Jim and Artie Mitchell's Autobiography of a Flea who was STILL underage! Fred Lincoln and Jamie Gillis also co-star- a rough bunch, indeed.). Needless to say it'll never see a DVD release. His characters are invariably along the lines of "Rapist #2". (Apologies for the above trivia tangent) Mann brings this "roughie" frisson to this film - very effective. Of course there are some (intentionally) hilarious lines - eminently quotable. Directed by Irv Berwick (best known for the infamous Hitch Hike to Hell). One of California's greatest homegrown sleaze-shows. Jill Lansing, who plays the lead, never made another movie - too bad because she's the ultimate exploitation anti-heroine.

This movie shows how a normal young lady can be seduced by a man with shady intent. It also shows how the fast life can lead to downfall.

Wonderfully awful movie, i loved it even though it's crappy

Young girl Kim decides to be decent to various males under the description "relief work" after seeing her father suicide due to mistreatment by her mother. Violates a fundamental rule of genuine relief workers by allowing Captain Hook into her life. Under attack from an improperly violent customer, she kills him with an ice pick and "graduates" to becoming a killer girl no longer in the relief business going so far as to terminate her high school principal who had become suspicious of her radically improved "grades". Then she goes to terminate the Sugar Daddy father of the girl who took Kim's original boyfriend, despondency over which reorganization precipitated her becoming a "relief worker". Is caught at the murder scene by the Sugar Daddy's daughter whom she also shoots dead but the group of hangers on causes her to leave her identifiable car. Original boy friend chases her down from the murder scene to where she is trapped, expresses an interest in terminating original boyfriend, and is shot dead by a police sniper. Terrible waste of talent subverted into organized crime. Not all that much acting talent shown by Jill Lansing playing Kim nor particularly good photography but the story is worthy of a four star rating.

I had higher hopes for this "film". Three minutes in, the topless main actress gets out of bed before school and lights up a cigarette first thing. Sadly, it was all downhill from there. I don't know if it was the tired cliche girl loses boyfriend, girl sleeps with teachers for A's, girl starts prostituting herself, girl starts murdering people or if it was just bad acting and directing. We may never know the truth. All I know is it took a lot of effort to get past the initial 20 minutes that I now regret putting out that effort to stay in for the rest. If you want some classic 70's camp, go with "The Van".

Kinda boring, really. I loved all the old movies from the 1980's, the dumb high school movies...like Joysticks, Spring Break, and Hogwild....not the one with Tim Allen...the old dumb one. All of those movies were a lot of fun, and I expected this to be the same. Anyway...it's not one of those.

Cool movies, great addition to my movies collection.

Fun and entertaining movie from the era.

Just as I remember it

ce film a beau être édité dans la collection "sexploitation", ne vous attendez pas à voir des filles nues, il s'agit plutôt d'une histoire assez glauque. Kim (Jill Lansing) vient d'être larguée par son petit ami. De dépit elle décide d'user de ses charmes pour obtenir de meilleures notes à l'école en provoquant ses professeurs. Mais cela ne suffit pas, elle se prostitue pour se payer une belle voiture puis rencontre un caïd mafieux qui lui apprend à tirer au révolver. Sans aucun scrupule, elle va plonger dans ce milieu... Où s'arrêtera-telle ? Son ancien petit ami Kevin (Stuart Taylor) pourra-t-il l'aider ? Il est donc assez peu question de sexe explicite juste une dérive d'une paumée qui croit avoir trouver sa voie dans la violence et la déchéance morale.

Un peu déçu car je m'attendais à beaucoup plus de nudité. Il faut mettre un pistolet sous la temps des actrices pour qu'elles tombent le slip :-) Cela étant, le film reste un bon témoignage de l'époque, mélangeant seploitation et drugsploitation, avec un peu de morbidité au passage, lefilm restant plus sombre que ne le laissait paraître sa joyeuse jaquette.