Malibu High

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Malibu High
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byIrvin Berwick
Written byJohn Buckley
Tom Singer
Produced by Lawrence D. Foldes
Tom Singer
StarringJill Lansing
Stuart Taylor
Katie Johnson
Phyllis Benson
CinematographyWilliam DeDiego
Edited byDan Perry
Music by Alan Tew
Distributed by Crown International Pictures
Release date
  • May 1979 (1979-05)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000 [1]
Box office$8 million [1]

Malibu High is a 1979 American exploitation film directed by Irvin Berwick and starring Jill Lansing. The film led to a quasi-sequel, The Graduates of Malibu High . [1]

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One song by Alan Tew, "The Big One", played during the film, was the inspiration to the theme song to The People's Court .[ citation needed ]

Synopsis

High school student Kim Bentley (Jill Lansing) is having a tough time of things at the moment. She has been dumped by her boyfriend Kevin (Stuart Taylor) for rich girl Annette (Tammy Taylor). Her grades are slipping, she has no money, and all her mother (Phyllis Benson) seems to care about is cleaning. Kim tells her best friend Lucy (Katie Johnson) that the nonsense ends today. Kim's been feeling sorry for herself ever since her father hanged himself.

She begins working for Tony the pimp (Alex Mann) and things start to look good for her, new clothes, new car and good grades. Annette begins to hate Kim even more and Kevin becomes jealous. Kim then meets Lance (Garth Howard) who frees her from turning tricks in a beat up old van which leads her to better clothes and nicer cars. Prostitution isn't the worst of it as Kim is forced to kill a man in self-defense when he tries to have his way with her being tied up. Kim becomes a hit woman and after murdering several people, including Annette and her father, she herself is killed on a deserted beach.

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Home media

The film was released on DVD on September 11, 2007 by BCI/Eclipse as part of a "Welcome to the Grindhouse Double Feature" along with Trip with the Teacher . [2] It was later released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome on May 30, 2017. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 London, Michael (14 August 1983). "EVEN FOR A 'GHOSTDIRECTOR,' THIS FILM WAS A NIGHTMARE". Los Angeles Times. p. u4.
  2. "Welcome to the Grindhouse: Malibu High/Trip with Teacher (1975)". Amazon. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  3. "Malibu High". Amazon.