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Kim (Jill Lansing) is a smart-mouthed high school senior whose boyfriend dumps her for a snobbish rich girl. Her poor grades and working class background make matters even worse, until Kim realizes that she can use her beautiful body to achieve her goals. Sexually blackmailing her teachers improves her grades and moonlighting as a prostitute pays off handsomely. But an easy life of vice pulls her deeper into corruption and crime, and soon Kim finds herself lured into the risky and bloody role of a high school aged hit girl!Hailed as a "seedy, sleazy little gem" by the LA Times, MALIBU HIGH is a fast-paced blend of neo-noir plotting and sexploitation styled antics. Directed by Irv Berwick (HITCH HIKE TO HELL) and produced by then 18-year-old wunderkind, Lawrence D. Foldes (DON'T GO NEAR THE PARK), Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring this one-of-a-kind exploitation classic to Blu-ray, newly restored from its original 35mm negative and loaded with bonus features.Bonus Features:1. Newly scanned and restored in 2k from 35mm original camera negative2. Group commentary track with: Producer Lawrence Foldes and Actress Tammy Taylor3. Video interviews with: Producer Lawrence Foldes, Actress Tammy Taylor and Actor Garth Pillsbury4. Q&A from a screening at the New Beverly Cinema w/ Producer Lawrence Foldes, Actress Tammy Taylor & Actor Alex Mann5. "Struggle for Israel" (1976) - a short film by Lawrence Foldes6. "Grandpa & Marika" (1975) - a short film by Lawrence Foldes7. Original theatrical trailer8. Production still gallery9. Reversible cover artwork10. English SDH Subtitles
A**.
Great Vinegar Syndrome release! Must own SoCal sleaze.
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.
M**L
Don't be fooled by the cover
This is another one of those "got to be seen to be believed" movies. Don't be fooled by the cover; this is definitely not a typical teen beach movie, or a "beach" movie at all. The woman on the cover is not actually in the movie; first-time actress Jill Lansing demanded to be paid extra for her image on the film poster, so they producers just found some model instead. In this film, Lansing goes from indifferent high school student to enticing her teachers with sex to get better grades to making easy cash hooking on the side to getting better pay hooking full-time to killing a john to agreeing to be a "hit" person to killing people who get in her way, including the school principal who is not fooled by her sudden improvement from F to A student. According to the audio commentary, Lansing was a demanding diva on-set, but it is clear that she had no problem doing what was asked of her, including frequent doffing of her top; in fact her nonchalant attitude is what makes this film so fascinating. Lansing apparently never appeared in another film; it is noted in the audio commentary that Universal offered her a contract, but when Universal refused her demand to be allowed to direct films, she just walked away from it.
L**R
Five Stars
Cool movies, great addition to my movies collection.
B**.
Four Star Story
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.
T**H
Four Stars
Nice old school T&A. Never enough T!! Must of been nice to live in that time. soo much simpler.
E**R
I enjoyed watching the movie
I enjoyed watching the movie. The plot was fair, but slow in places, and a little hard to believe in other parts.
S**C
Horribly great
Wonderfully awful movie, i loved it even though it's crappy
S**R
go back in time
terrific, hot, period piece
E**E
thriller
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.
A**R
Four Stars
Just as I remember it
I**E
pas mal
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.
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