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Citazione :: Bitch Slap

THE best part of this unapologetically lurid modern-day B-movie is the opening credit sequence, which lifts snippets from a dozen or so exploitation movies of the past few decades, including such female-empowerment gems as The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, They Call Her One-Eye and Coffy. Visually sifting through all these tawdry delights, alert viewers will notice a bit from the Russ Meyer classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, this movie's specific progenitor.

It's about three women, including a cleavage-baring psychotic lesbian, seeking treasure in a godforsaken desert abode. Sound familiar?

Hel (Erin Cummings), clad in a pervert's notion of "successful businesswoman," arrives on the scene with luscious, dopey, soft-hearted stripper Trixie (Saskatchewan's own Julia Voth) and Camero (America Olivo), the aforementioned Sapphic psycho, newly sprung from prison. They're seeking a fortune in diamonds presumed to be in the possession of the sleazy underworld mastermind Gage (Michael Hurst).

But a series of flashbacks reveals that there's more to this heist than just diamonds

Director Rick Jacobson, a veteran of the Roger Corman school of quick-and-dirty cinema, amps up that threadbare premise with big firepower and outré green-screen visual effects. In apparent tribute to Meyer, he also photographs women with an unerringly smutty point of view. (In this movie, a beautiful woman exiting a car is treated as a momentous event on par with a black monolith being discovered on the moon.)

Alas, he lacks Meyer's inspired lunacy. Jacobson has actresses who can actually act, tons of visual effects, good-natured semi-name stars willing to do cameos (including Xena stars Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor as a pair of nuns), yet his movie still comes off as more a fanboy tribute to Meyer than a worthy entity unto itself.

The DVD has no extras whatsoever. 'Ö'Ö1/2
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