Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)

Three snobbish high school girls prematurely age brought on from a curse, a drug (or something) after the arrival of new transfer student whom they believe is connected to a murder they committed a year earlier. A fate worse than death.

Director:

John T. Kretchmer

Writers:

Paul Fleischman (based on the novel by), Robert LoCash (screenplay),

Stars:

Julie Benz, Nicole Bilderback, Monica Keena

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Julie Benz	...	Danielle
Nicole Bilderback	...	Tiffany
Monica Keena	...	Brooke
Chris D'Elia	...	Gavin
Jonathan Brandis	...	Drew
Suzanna Urszuly	...	Katarina
Aaron Paul	...	Jonathan Wharton
Terrance Morris	...	Track Athlete (as Terrence Morris)
Christopher Lloyd	...	Mr. Chauncey
Janet Leigh	...	Mrs. Witt
Tanja Reichert	...	Charity Chase
Jennifer Carmichael	...	Sales Girl (as Jennifer Anne Carmichael)
Patricia Idlette	...	Woman In Dressing Room
Frederick Pleasure II	...	Volleyball Coach
Bobby Jo Moore	...	Girl in Towel

Storyline

Danielle is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany and Brooke care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew, even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. It's been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesn't ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina. Since Katarina can't take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But there's a slight problem: Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. She'll sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back.

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Plot Keywords:

high school | exchange student | murder | youth | death | 

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Taglines:

Highschool can be Hell, but popularity can be murder!

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some sexual content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 March 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Fate Totally Worse Than Death

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bubble Factory, The, A Fate Productions LLC

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Based on the 1995 teen novel by Paul Fleischman, a spoof of young adult horror novels popular at the time.

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Goofs

The monitor by the darkroom entrance in the AV room shows that a camera is panning, zooming, and following Tiffany throughout the scene, although it's supposedly coming from a stationary camera since there's nobody else in the room that would be operating it.

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Quotes

Tiffany: Why are we volunteering at this place?
Danielle: Because it looks good for our community service project, and so that Drew will like me. When I get what I want, I'm happy. And when I'm happy, I'm not a bitch.

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Connections

References I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

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Soundtracks

"Fatal One"
Music by Philip W. Gough
Lyrics by Robert LoCash (as Bob LoCash)
Published by Tiki King Music (BMI)
Performed by Philip W. Gough & Chris D'Elia
Courtesy of Tiki King Music

User Reviews

Late Night Movie Fare

This is the kind of movie that you want to see late at night, when you just want some mindless entertainment. I almost fell of my chair when I saw Jonathan Brandis was in this film, since he had passed away two years before it was released. I guess Bad Girls was on the shelf for a while. It certainly seems dated.

The teenage high school girls are played by a cast is that mostly around thirty years old, or older. Julie Benz is the oldest of these high school girls, and I have to agree with the reviewer that mentioned that she looks around forty in this flick. I thought she was one of the teachers when she first appeared.

Christopher Lloyd is in this film to do pratfalls, and it is a sad waste of his talent. I wonder why he would be in this movie. Aside from walking into doors, he is occasionally oogling the girls. I felt sorry for him, as he was playing the role that usually goes to some unknown college student-actor.

Overall, there is not much to recommend this film. If you missed seeing the Valley Girl movies of the 1990s, then this dated after-thought might fill the bill. If you have a bag of potato chips and a case of insomnia, and Bad Girls happens to be on the tube, then you can kill 90 minutes looking at Julie Benz trying to remember what being a teenager was like.