Jonathan Demme, who later hit dizzy heights as a director with The Silence of the Lambs (for which he won an Oscar) and Philadelphia, made his debut with this exploitation film made to cash in on the 'girl gang' syndrome. It was financed by Roger Corman's cut-price New World organisation where Demme had risen quickly through the ranks from scriptwriter to producer, but he achieves little here to indicate his emergence as a director of talent a few years later. He's helped by the casting of Erica Gavin, certainly the most animated star from Russ Meyer's soft-porn films, but even manages to get a bad performance from British-born Barbara Steele - a cult favourite from a number of Italian horror films directed by Mario Bava - as the sadistic villainess. Don't expect much.


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