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      High School Hellcats

      1958 1h 9m Crime Drama LGBTQ+ List
      Reviews 7% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A transfer student (Yvonne Lime) thinks she has to join a girl's (Jana Lund) gang to be popular. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A dim-witted exploitation 1950s high school drama about the pressure of joining an all-girl gang. Rated: C May 10, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member B movie drive-in fare from the same year I was born Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Who needs a prize? Joyce is a new student in class at a high school where her class includes a female gang that parties and rules the school. She is trying to pass initiation and maintain a stable relationship with a boy. Eventually she sticks with her new gang running mates over her new boyfriend. She quickly discovers that may have been the wrong decision. "There is a gang in this class. I'm the boss." "Isn't that against the rules?" "I make the rules." Edward Bernds, director of Return of the Fly, World without End, Valley of the Dragons, Joy Ride, Queen of Outer Space, Alaska Passage, and Reform School Girl, delivers Highschool Hellcats. The storyline for this picture is just okay but fun to watch unfold. The acting is fairly mediocre. "I don't belong to a pack." "Don't worry, you will." I came across this cult film on Netflix and had to add it to the wish list. It was okay and I wanted to see how it unfolded, but the main character is annoying and could have been better. I only recommend seeing this if nothing better is on. "Somebody fell down." Grade: C Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A nice little cult gem, though the dialogue, acting and story are dodgy it has heart and God bless they try. The direction is very staid and directionless but saying that must of these films are but I guess that's why we love them. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member So this movie starts out strong--a fabulously dressed '50s girl gang sitting around plotting whom to initiate next (and the sullen one throws a switchblade against the wall) and then a ridiculous title sequence featuring a chalk board and some swingin' music and then a classroom scene in which the girl gang tortures their hapless male Home Ec sub by making a lot of puns and throwing things. But then Lame-O Heroine Girl comes along, and then the movie's about her rebelling against her white-bread, conservative family and getting a lame boyfriend. Then, halfway through, the leader of the girl gang dies by falling down like 4 steps, and it's all downhill into a lame mystery from there. But Sullen Switchblade Girl becomes the leader of the pack and gets to brandish her switchblade quite a bit and wear very boldly striped blouses, among other awesome '50 apparel. On a related note, none of these girls looked half bad ass enough. They were all wearing pretty conservative sweater sets and below-the-knee skirts that weren't even that tight. I was expecting stuff more along the lines of the cover art. No dice. They all looked more like Sandy than Rizzo, that's for sure. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Goofy 50's film about a new girl in school who ends up a part of a girl gang called the "Hellcats." It's from AIP (makers of the Beach Party movies). It pretends to be a cautionary tale but really was just trying to draw in the teen audience with a story about rebellious youngsters. It's silly fun. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A transfer student (Yvonne Lime) thinks she has to join a girl's (Jana Lund) gang to be popular.
      Director
      Edward Bernds
      Production Co
      American International Pictures (AIP)
      Genre
      Crime, Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 1, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 9m
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