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Malibu High

  • 1979
  • R
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
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Jill Lansing in Malibu High (1979)
After being dumped by her boyfriend and about to flunk high school, Kim decides on major changes by using her body.
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After being dumped by her boyfriend and about to flunk high school, Kim decides on major changes by using her body.After being dumped by her boyfriend and about to flunk high school, Kim decides on major changes by using her body.After being dumped by her boyfriend and about to flunk high school, Kim decides on major changes by using her body.

  • Director
    • Irvin Berwick
  • Writers
    • John Buckley
    • Thomas Singer
  • Stars
    • Jill Lansing
    • Stuart Taylor
    • Katie Johnson
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.0/10
    1.5K
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    • Director
      • Irvin Berwick
    • Writers
      • John Buckley
      • Thomas Singer
    • Stars
      • Jill Lansing
      • Stuart Taylor
      • Katie Johnson
    • 42User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jill Lansing
    Jill Lansing
    • Kim Bentley
    Stuart Taylor
    • Kevin
    Katie Johnson
    • Lucy
    Wallace Earl Laven
    • Mrs. Bentley
    • (as Phyllis Benson)
    Alex Mann
    • Tony
    • (as Al Mannino)
    Tammy Taylor
    Tammy Taylor
    • Annette
    Garth Pillsbury
    Garth Pillsbury
    • Lance
    • (as Garth Howard)
    John Harmon
    • Mr. Elmhurst
    John Yates
    • Mr. Donaldson
    • (as John Grant)
    James Devney
    • Mr. Wyngate
    • (as Jim Devney)
    Clarke Gordon
    Clarke Gordon
    • Harry Ingersoll
    • (as Robert Gordon)
    Ken Layton
    • Mr. Mooney
    Cambra Foldes
    • Valerie
    • (as Cambra Zweigler)
    William Cohen
    • Jeweler
    Susan Gorton
    • Miss Primm
    Bill Burke
    • Mr. H.
    Scott Walters
    • Paper Boy
    A.D. Ackerman
    • Henchman
    • Director
      • Irvin Berwick
    • Writers
      • John Buckley
      • Thomas Singer
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    ultrageek-3

    The Best Worst Movie Of All Time

    OK, this is a B movie. Let's just start there and realize that this film is just not a great piece of cinema. Now, knowing that, we can move forward. This is the best film of its type there is. Here's the synopsis. Girl is in high school. Girl's mother suggests that she get a job. Girl becomes prostitute. Girl kills pimp. Girl becomes HitGirl-for-the-Mob. Lots of other subplots to keep you entertained. Probably too many. But the lines in this groaner are worth the price of admission, if you can find it anywhere. "I'm a hooker - not a hitgirl!". Come on! Does it get better than that? MH belongs in the Hall of Fame with Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, They Came From Within and Attack of the Killer Tomatos, and is the best of the bunch. This film is an A+ in the world of the B-.
    3Sro100

    The Best Schoolgirl turns Prostitute Turns Hitwoman Movie Ever!

    It's definitely the best story I've ever seen about a girl who wants better grades and then becomes a prostitute and then becomes an assassin. Part of the excellent "Welcome to the Grindhouse" series complete with trailers for other good trash. This movie also contains the ODDEST music cues ever; one was used on the old SCTV and they also use the song that became "The People's Court" theme. Bad acting, unbelievable plotting make this is a "MUST OWN" for connoisseurs of bad cinema. The DVD is paired with "Trip with the Teacher" another grade Z champion seemingly "inspired" by "Last House on the Left." The entire "Welcome to the Grindhouse" is essential DVD.
    don-299

    No assassination on Wednesday, please, I have a history test

    I saw this (or a very abbreviated version of this) film on TV back around 1985. It was a puzzle. I found of copy of the film, then bought my first VCR. I was not disappointed. It is the silliest movie I have ever seen! Every aspect of it's production (acting, writing, sound, composition, cinematography, etc.) is truly bad and hence it rates an 11 on the scale of 10 all-time-bad movies.

    Malibu High improves with age like a fine wine - each viewing brings new insights into how bad (and how entertaining) a film can really be. I'd recommend a group viewing with like-minded friends who occassionally need to kick back and have a great laugh.
    6BaronBl00d

    Who Knew Relief Work Could Be so Lucratuve!

    You don't go into seeing this one with any grandiose notions, and, if you are like me, you should be pleasantly surprised that this is one of those vintage "bad" movies that is just loads of fun to sit through. Kim Bentley loses her boyfriend and so she begins failing her classes, etc... when she decides to become a prostitute and then later an assassin picking up booze, weed, and coke along the way. Jill Lansing appearing in what seems to be her only screen credit gives a credible performance as the "hooker to hit girl" as she frequently disrobes and lets her breasts get lots of air, seduces two of her teachers for grades, and runs a profitable business from the back of her pimp's van. We get lots of stereotypes here and the plot is pretty threadbare when it comes to anything other than giving us lurid and "shocking" behaviours to be witnessed. The rest of the cast is better-than-average for a movie of this ilk, and I laughed out loud several times at the bizarre going ons and what I was suppose(perhaps not) to take seriously. In addition to all this Kim has a few hazy flashbacks about her father hanging himself. Malibu High is sleazy and fun - and entertaining. It has what you would expect in a picture like this but packages it well. As some have noted the soundtrack is weird to say the least as we get an instrumental People's Court theme used in a most inopportune moment and that bizarre SCTV strident tone used when something significant is being conveyed - at least that is what the director is trying to convey.
    4trashgang

    excellent grindhouse

    Jill Lansing, the main lead in this grindhouse gave a excellent performance but sadly it was her only movie she played in. Never heard of seen her again. And let me tell you that this is pure grindhouse. In the first minute Kim (Jill Lansing) wakes up , naked of course and the first thing she does is putting on a fag. Imagine this in today's film standards. The clothes, hair, even the score is so typical for that era, men, do I love those flicks. After Kim is dumped by her boyfriend for a rich girl she's on the loose. School doesn't work and she just don't care. But without any money she decides after a disco night (listen and watch it) to become another woman. One that teachers don't dare to flunk because she's seducing and making love to them. But Kim goes a bit further and goes into the world of hookers. Naturally, things go awry for Kim. You don't watch it for the acting because some are really wooden. The editing, sound and vision was really well for a grindhouse. The so-called erotic scene's are a bit dull, you just see the acting but anyhow you still want to know what is going to happen to Kim. And Kim does gives the breast, sorry, best she can. The ending is a bit weird, you can see it coming but how the cops arrive at the beach is still a bit weird. I mean, no cell phones in those days. I surely recommend it to the grindhouse geeks out there, you won't regret it.

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    • Trivia
      Jill Lansing was asked to pose topless for the theatrical one sheet poster, but demanded to be paid an outrageous sum of money. So producers asked Mary-Margaret Humes, one of the actresses who had auditioned for the lead, to do it and she agreed even though she wasn't in the film.
    • Goofs
      When Kim "shoots" the tin can, it is obvious that the can is being flipped into the air by the wooden plank under it.
    • Quotes

      Kim Bentley: I can't do it, Lance... I mean, I may be a hooker, but I'm not a hitgirl.

      Lance: It's time you graduated.

    • Connections
      Featured in Making 'Malibu High' (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Lovely But Deadly
      Written by Steve Myland

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    • Release date
      • May 1979 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Crown International Pictures
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Death in Denim
    • Filming locations
      • Babar Covy Studios, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Star Cinema Productions
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    • Budget
      • $56,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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