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Rating:  - Not nearly bad enough
I expect less from Ed Wood jr. The movie details the exploits of a gang of bad girls gone really, comically wrong. Robbing gasoline seems a bit unnecessary in the days of 25 cent premium, but we get the point. And how could the cops mistake bandanna masked women for male juvenile delinquents? I don't recall men wearing that much make-up in the 1950's but this movie does come to us from the creator of "Glen or Glennda". Better is the "ravaging" scene set on lover's lane. However, the movie ends up with some lengthy gratuitous moralizing that we just don't need. Where's the rubber octapus? Oh, wait. Maybe that's the scene we didn't see out on Lover's Lane.
Rating: - Bring a Six-Pack When You See This Schlock Fest
Lovers of Bad Cinema can't go wrong with this high-camp double feature from the folks at Something Weird Video - complete with drive-in ads, juvenile-delinquency shorts and schlock trailers. Everyone knows that Ed Wood wrote the screenplay for "The Violent Years," even though his name was omitted from the opening credits. Nevertheless, this 1956 saga of Girls Gone Bad has enough non-acting and Woodian dialogue to satisfy his most ardent fans. Cut from the same low-budget cloth, "Girl Gang" is even more wretched and decidedly less fun. Don't forget to bring a six-pack when you watch this smorgasbord of exploitative celluloid.
Rating:  - Drive-in trailers ruined with onscreen letters!
I sent this back after finding out the drive-in trailers have the letters "SWV" superimposed onscreen! I bought this just for these trailers, the movies are unvandalized but I won't buy any more titles from Something Weird because of this.
Rating:  - GREAT DOUBLE FEATURE!
Something Weird Video does it again with this great double-feature of girls gone wrong - teenage terror!
THE VIOLENT YEARS tells the story of rich kid Paula Parkins (Jean Moorhead) who rebels against her parents and joins a gang of devil-dolls who rob gas stations and take men up into the woods and rape them (....). Also featuring Barbara Weeks, Teresa Hancock and Joanne Cangi, it was scripted by the one and only Edward D. Wood Jr (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE)!.
GIRL GANG tells the story of a group of girls who'll do anything for a hit of dope, and the disgusting old men who take advantage. When not engaged in marijuana make-out parties, they are committing robberies to feed their habit! Starring Joanne Arnold, Mary Lou O'Connor and Timothy Farrell.
Of course, the big advantage is the "Let's Go To The Drive-In" feature which couples the two films together along with concession stand ads, intermission shorts and two featurettes entitled "Goof Balls and Tea" and "What About Juvenile Delinquency?".
Be sure to check out the other fantastic double features from Something Weird Video, including THE NOTORIOUS DAUGHTER OF FANNY HILL/THE HEAD MISTRESS and BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL/ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER MAN.
Rating: - The Violent, Girl-Gang Years
Something Weird Video has paired the Ed Wood classic flick "The Violent Years" with the similarly-themed movie "Girl Gang." Both films include Timothy Farrell, who also appeared in the Ed Wood classics "Glen or Glenda?" and "Jail Bait." In "The Violent Years" he co-stars as a police lieutenant, but in "Girl Gang" he stars as the head dope pusher - talk about a versatile actor!
My favorite scene in "The Violent Years" is when the women attack a couple parked in lover's lane. One of the gang asks the woman for her angora sweater, thus proving that the screenplay was indeed written by Ed Wood! Then, the 4 femme fatales take the hapless man into the woods to have their way with him. Just as the ringleader starts removing her clothes, the camera cuts away. Next, the newspaper headline proclaims, "Young Man Robbed, Criminally Attacked By Four Girls!" In a later incident, the police arrive as the women are vandalizing their school. The gang starts shooting at the cops, and the police return fire. A gang member exclaims in disbelief, "They're shooting back at us!" The ringleader retorts, "What did you expect them to do, throw powder puffs?" Great Ed Wood dialogue! "Girl Gang" is even more graphic, mostly dealing with drug addiction and its crime-related consequences. The drunken doctor who tends to that gang provides much needed comic relief. "I'm a respectable doctor, even if I haven't got a license!" Add in theatrical trailers, short subjects, etc., and you have another great Drive-In Double Feature from Something Weird Video.
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