Girlfriends

If you are a fan of bad cinema, you'll love this flick. I stumbled upon it on Netflix and after viewing, immediately purchased a copy on eBay.

As an aficionado of bad movie/exploitation films (prevalent from the 1930's-1970's) few films in the last few decades would fall into that category. GIRLFRIENDS most definitely does! It has all the elements of an enjoyable "bad" film (all due respect to the film maker and actors). Bad direction, bad acting, bad technical quality, yet the film is intriguing and VERY entertaining.

The basic storyline is two women in love who support themselves by attracting men and killing them for their $$$. Pretty wholesome... huh? Special nods to Lori Scarlett who plays "Pearle" with true professional intent, yet her performance is both terrible and amazing to watch. Sorta' like witnessing a bad car accident on the expressway.

If you enjoy classic bad cinema like MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE, GLEN OR GLENDA, THE CREEPING TERROR, you will be greatly amused by this 1993 independent movie. Although not a horror/mystery film as those just mentioned, it will most likely keep you glued to your flat-screen TV with your mouth open in a gasp. Certainly GIRLFRIENDS is destine to become a cult classic, if it hasn't already.

Enjoy!

This movie was so incredible bad, that I couldn't watch the whole thing. This film was created by a man, and and it shows. The two main characters in this movie, embody virtually every straight male fantasy/fear, that they have about lesbians, and women in general.

Many if not most hetero men, think that women are dangerous, and that they should be very wary of them. And if a woman is also vulgar, foul-mouthed, sexually insatiable, and bisexual rather than exclusively lesbian, then she's every straight man's wet dream. The two women in this film, fit the criteria listed above, to an absolute 't'.

These two women truly are dangerous, because they make a sport of killing men in cold blood. In real life, women who murder men, generally do so in self defense. These women genuinely hate men, which they constantly convey in their brutally offensive language, whenever they refer to them. You have to wonder though, why they want to sleep with men for money, sport, and as sperm donors, since they despise men so much.

Best to skip this turkey of a film, and see movies that have realistic, human, and likable lesbian characters instead.

Generally I love lesbian films but this is an exception. The premise sounds like it could be interesting but the execution is hugely disappointing. The acting seems amateurish, there's no real plot, and - worst of all - we get no insight at all into why these women seem to be able to murder men with absolutely no compunction or feeling.

Potentially the most interesting aspect of such a tale might be the exploration of why two women might be so angry at men that they make a career out of slaughtering them. Unfortunately, this movie completely ignores this opportunity. Instead, we see women who seem to have no feelings at all - positive or negative - about the men they kill; the men might as well be cardboard cutouts.

In good storytelling, there should be at least one character that we can root for, even identify with. But not here. In the first killing we see, the victim is a disgusting bigot, so it might be possible to feel a little bit of empathy for the women when they blow him away, but later there is another murder which is simply appalling.

I've always tried to keep an open mind about film makers working outside areas of their own experience but this movie is a really, really good argument for avoiding "lesbian" films made by men.