Starring: Kathleen Kinmont, Persis Khambatta, Peggy Sands, James H. Emery, Sheila Howard Directed By: Robert Hayes Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Feature: SHE-WOLVES OF THE WASTELAND (DVD MOVIE) Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 06, 2007 Running Time: 85 minutes Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Lame ^ Ok from reading the other reviews I had low expectations but this movie was even worse than I anticipated, there are many other movies I would have been better off wasting the few dollars on.
Bad even for a B-grade post-apocalyptic timewaster ^ Being a seasoned B-movie veteran I decided to give She-Wolves of the Wasteland a shot when I found it for ultra cheap on sale. I love ultra bad post-apocalyptic films like Hell Comes to Frogtown, The New Barbarians, 2019: After the Fall of New York, etc so I should like a film like She-Wolves as well...right? Sadly...not so much.
What hurts she-wolves is it seemingly made by novices that have not directed anything but adult films. No style, no good action, nothing. The film is just boring to look at. People looking for nudity aren't even going to find much of that. The acting is a atrocious (as expected) and there isn't even any campy comical effect to keep one interested.
To top off the film not being entertaining is that the DVD transfer isn't that great either. Echo Bridge is usually a pretty good company when it comes to budget DVDs but sadly they obviously used a VHS transfer here. There are quit a few VHS glitches throughout the film and they seemed to have added the title "She-Wolves of the Wasteland" with a cheesy computer effect (this makes sense as the film was originially released as Phoenix the Warrior on VHS).
In final words remember that just because you're a fan of cheesy B-grade movies doesn't mean your going to like this. This comes nowhere near the entertaining factor of other B-grade films in the post-apocalyptic genre.
Brain Jello ^ Every movie collector should have a few bad and I mean real bad attempts to make a movie movie in their collection. It reminds us of what can go wrong and how good it is when done right. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Not the worst but worthy of being included in a collection for being bad story, bad acting, bad sets, and of course all around bad ideal in the first place! No story line here that two horny teens drunk on dad's beer could not have written on a dateless Friday night! If you are looking for a movie to exploit women...this won't do it...they lack even that! But if you want an example of bad...this is a good pick.
She-Wolves of the Waste of Time ^ Even for what it is--stupid, schlocky B-movie fare--this is a bad movie.
Cover girls look great, but you won't find any of them on screen...nor anyone who even comes close to resembling them, for that matter.
I mean you know that this is going to have a stupid, almost-unwatchable plot--I'm not even going to try to describe it, totally pointless--so you've got to balance that out with massive amounts of healthy T and A. Right?
But if T and A were currency (which--wait a minute--they basically are), then this movie would be below poverty level:
ONE nude scene. Just one, or two if you are being generous in how you count. And not a good one at that: toplessness but nothing below the waist...not even from behind!
And NO sex scences. Oh yeah, allegedly one in a sleeping bag. Lasts four seconds and mainly involves talking. And the talking is by Peggy Sands, who ironically can't act her way out of the bag that she's in. If acting was currency, Sands would be jailed for counterfeiting.
You could see steamier stuff on an after-school special.
Don't buy it, don't rent it, don't watch it. Find something else to do because if you waste an hour and 15 minutes on this, you'll actually begin to hate fur bikinis.
Disappointing ^ I haven't seen the whole thing, yet.
I did start it once, let it run out about half-way in the background while I was doing some other things and never got back to it, though I had left it in the pile for another try.
I never did connect with the story line. It is way out there, good for science fiction, but more like that strange dream you wake up from once or twice a year wondering "how did I get there ?" and "what was that all about ?" or "What did I have for dinner ?". Upon rolling over once or twice, checking out the familiar surroundings and catching your breath, you go back to sleep determined not to let that theme continue.
It is just a bunch of tough-ass women belonging to competing thug-gangs running around in the desert killing each other and occasionally taking most of their clothes off for little or no practical or erotic reason at all. There is some way-out end-of-days on some other world religious overtones, but nothing that anyone on earth needs to worry about.
The used price may be about right but there are much better skin-flicks out there. The very little drama is quite thin but the edge is intense as the girls, barely surviving, are under a lot of pressure to get on with their mission to save their world, such as it is.
Are they successful ?
Maybe one day I will be bored enough to find out !
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