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Schoolgirls in Chains

A pleasant surprise. I kinda of like it, its quite filthy, its sleazy and its cheap but well made. I say that this is better than The Forest, I haven't seen that many Don Jones movies but this one its probably the best out of all of them. Its not great or anything but it delivers the goods, its better than its title suggests. Recommended for exploitation lovers, this one its quite entertaining and has some good aspects to it, very enjoyable.

This lurid exploitation film was originally titled "Schoolgirls in Chains", and just to be certain the audience understood they were schoolgirls, one of them is having an affair with her teacher. The movie opens with an unforgettably awful theme song, and the entire soundtrack can only be described as bizarre. Once the momma's boys appear and get down to their abduction business, you realize that this was absolutely intended for the "old men in raincoats crowd". The two sons, who are totally devoted to their mummified mommy, could best be described as Mopey and Dopey. The girls chained in the cellar are "playthings" for these two dimwits, who obviously can barely write their names in the mud with a stick. Good of it's type. - MERK

Sadly this great often haunting B has all but disappeared and it is all the more unfortunate because it has the components of a immortal cult classic. Schoolgirls In Chains is the truly bizarre story of two brothers who kidnap and keep women locked in the cellar for the retarded brothers childishly sexual games. This very unusual film does beg comparision to Texas Chainsaw Massacre (with themes of cannibalism replaced with incest and necrophilia) and if for no other reason is significant for being one (among DeathDream, Blood and Lace and the later films of Hershell Gordon Lewis) of the darkest drive in films of the early 70s

"Schoolgirls in Chains" is a "Psycho" inspired low-budget slice of sleaze that chronicles the events of several young girls kidnapped by two maladjusted brothers named Frankie and Johnny who store them in a fruit cellar and routinely subject them to harassment.The films underlying theme of misogyny is primarily filtered through verbal intent rather than visual shocks.The film features Gary Kent as a brooding,incestuous bruiser,John Stoglin as his creepy retard brother and Leah Tate and Suzanne Lund.There is a decent amount of smut and perversity and plenty of nudity,so I wasn't disappointed.Unfortunetely there is not enough violence for my liking and the action is rather slow,but if you like grindhouse exploitation flicks you may give this one a try.7 out of 10.