Bad Girls

If you thought that scream queen Michelle Bauer was hot in 80s B-movie 'classics' like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, check out her screen debut (as Pia Snow) in '81 porn flick Bad Girls: you'll never look at her the same way again.

Michelle plays Angie, who joins good friends Chrissie (Anna Ventura), Kate (Victoria Knoll) and Bo (Lenora Bruce) for a trip to the great outdoors. As they explore their surroundings, the girls indulge in al fresco sex, with each other, and with a lucky local woodsman (John Leslie). When the lovely ladies find a wooden sign for Habrina's Dungeons, rumoured to be a torture chamber for rich S&M freaks, they decide to investigate, but are taken captive and forced to submit to the will of the Judge (Mike Feline), the dungeon's master.

In what are purportedly the only hardcore scenes of Bauer's career, Angie performs cunnilingus on Chrissie and fellatio on some lucky dude called Thomas (Michael Snow). In the film's other sex scenes, Kate does the dirty with her randy photographer Jerry (Richard Pacheco), John Leslie's woodsman attends to two women at once, and gets his chopper out once again to satisfy Bo, a scoutmaster called Slater (legendary porn star Ron Jeremy) gets his woggle out for Chrissie (Dyb, dyb, dyb, dob, dob, dob), and there's a big orgy to round things off.

The outdoor setting and passable performances make Bad Girls a little more interesting than the average early '80s porno, but it is Bauer's hands-on involvement that will make this film of particular interest to fans of straight-to-video trash.

An above average porno, which is best known for containing scream queen Michelle Bauer's (apparently) only hardcore sex scenes [giving and receiving oral sex if you must know]. We also have here an early appearance of the young hedgehog Ron Jeremy, from a period before he turned into his own caricature.

The film compares favourably with 1990s porn, partly because it gives some (albeit small) room for plot and character development, partly because it was made on a budget for which you could buy more than a couple of Mars bars, and then, of course, because the women in this picture have real breasts and do not look like animated mannequins.

I picked this movie up after seeing it as a trailer. It is delightful to see a pornographic video with a sense of the erotic. This is helped by the fact that the leading quartet of ladies are ravishingly gorgeous (Amanda Ventura alone, yikes!) and are allowed an expression of personality. Their acting skills are also a couple of levels above the usual porn level of brain death. Their attributes (physical, that is!) are effectively show-cased. And it is good to see the fine art of Tease being practised (again, Ms Ventura excels).

This is an old movie, and confirms my belief that this first generation of porn videos were far superior to today's mass produced, generally tedious offerings.

The plot involves four nude models taking a camping holiday in the wild, while indulging in their craft. But they blunder into some kind of S&M institute and are subjected to (mild) humiliations. Not a brilliant plot, but the girls more than compensate.

The only main negative about the film was the atrocious theme song. It was pleasant not to be repulsed by Ron "The Hedgehog" Jeremy, this being a very early role for him. Having only the hired R version I am now attempting to buy the X.

My brother and I discovered this gem amongst our fathers other movies as young children. Our friends And I enjoyed it emensly . A few highlights.. -Seeing Ron Jeremy perform fellatio on himself in a library. -the most famous line in a porn ever "I'd like some of that p$&sy if you don't mind" -simulated rape scenes -lesbian love in the great outdoors I recommend closing the plastic sliding doors to your den and enjoying this fine piece of cinema with a loved one or friend.

While they have probably made better movies in terms of narrative, production values or even sexual content, the original BAD GIRLS remains something of a signature film for the amorous and artistic partnership of Svetlana and David Frazer. Spawning three (official) sequels, it also easily remains the best of that series, the second installment in particular being an instantly disposable piece of drivel. As was their trademark, the dynamic duo assembled a visually stunning cast of then new female faces, few of whom had been seen before and several not all that frequently since, enshrining this effort in the hearts and minds of girlie watchers the world over.

Four hot centerfold friends (Angie, Kate, Chrissy and Bo, incidentally also the flick's working title !) decide to go camping for the weekend, getting into all sorts of sexy trouble along the way. Smouldering Victoria Knoll (one of the ballet school students in Gary Graver's underrated INDECENT EXPOSURE) gets the ball rolling as she gives horny shutterbug Richard Pacheco – who does a very funny British accent – exactly what he wants in a realistically sweaty scene. Hotter still, and not even hardcore at that, is the tantalizing tease sequence that follows when the girls pick up hitchhiking boy scout John Handler (who claims to be 16 and really looks the part) and voluptuous Anna Ventura – billed as "Jasmine Du Bai" – taunts him with a few well-timed beaver flashes before kicking him out into the road. This action sets the plot in motion as the kid tells his big brother Slater (the ubiquitous Ron Jeremy, looking astonishingly svelte at this early stage of his busy career) who recruits unsuspecting young women for a group of weird male cultists led by the perverse Judge, played by Mike Filene (from Larry Revene's delightful FASCINATION) who stepped in as Bill Margold bowed out, unfortunately making for a rather paltry substitute. As with several other Frazer & Svetlana titles, the heroines' comeuppance involves considerable coercion bordering on rape, though as in SEX BOAT entirely devoid of believability or violence, so more sensitive viewers might consider themselves forewarned.

The story's hardly the focal point here. Heck no, it's quite rightfully the glamorous women and the scalding, enthusiastic sex they encounter en route to their unplanned stay at the Judge's secluded retreat. Luscious Lenora Bruce (who would subsequently change her moniker to "Eleonor Liquore", turning up in Kemal Horulu's simultaneously shot NEVER SLEEP ALONE and WHEN SHE WAS BAD) spies on lumberjack John Leslie ravishing mature minx Lee Caroll and busty Leslie Winston from Jerome Tanner's CLUB EXOTICA movies, taking a crack at him herself later, delivering the goods in full pedal to the metal Lady Chatterley mode. Though she was to deny it later, B movie scream queen Michelle Bauer (a/k/a "Pia Snow") did indeed perform hardcore on this occasion : an extended labia lick cantata with Ventura and a brief blow job on lucky one shot Michael Snow as part of the final orgy sequence. Svetlana's SEX BOAT discovery Sylvia Benedict, who went on to minor stardom as an early video vixen, appears as one of the slave girls, soothing the captured Ventura. Stalwart stallions Mike Ranger and Kevin James play cult members, in more ways than one, geddit ? Technical credits are sound with Gene/Jean Petrov's brightly colored camera work a standout. Much of the sex occurs outdoors in woodsy locations, immensely adding to its appeal. Bill King contributed a suitably bouncy title tune. The makers weren't aiming for art here, just eye candy of the highest order. Mission accomplished !