Bad Girls: Grindhouse chills, thrills, and kills shot on a $16K budget

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  "Thank heaven for little girls," Special Agent Cannon sarcastically declares off-screen as we get our first look at the Bad Girls. [credit: Films Colacitta ]

You've probably never heard of the underground film industry in Columbia, South Carolina-which is understandable, since it has only produced three films in the last 10 years or so. Two of those films are by producer/director/person-with-a-dream Christopher Bickel, who finished his sophomore full-length movie effort Bad Girls just this month.

Bad Girls is an over-the-top grindhouse jam, packed full of sex, drugs, loud music, and ultraviolent action. The movie was shot on a budget of $16,000-approximately one-tenth the amount that Troma (probably the best-known ridiculously low-budget production company) spent making its first film in 1979.

The microscopic budget makes it almost impossible for Bad Girls to avoid the Dancing Bear trope-but despite the movie's lack of funds and semi-amateur cast and crew, Bad Girls delivers a thoroughly watchable experience to its target audience.

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