Veteran Blaxploitation director Jack Hill (Coffy, Foxy Brown) clearly knows his way around the "action film" genre. A girl struggles to remain the leader of a pack of knife-wielding high-school girls. On that skeleton Hill hangs fast-paced, cliché-ridden dialog, plenty of fight scenes, a lesbian reform-school matron, ineffectual cops, high-school pushers, and some female, Black Power Maoists. Made in 1976, the film plays as terrific camp today; maybe too good-at the screening I attended, one woman was so caught up in the camp pacing and dialog, she giggled all the way through a rape scene. Other than that, this is a great film to see in a boisterous crowd-a perfect midnight movie.

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