Bad Girls from Valley High

Plot synopsis:
Danielle (Julie Benz), Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) are the three most popular and most nasty girls in their high school. While the leader Danielle is used to getting what she wants, she is unable to attract lonesome ex-jock Drew (Jonathan Brandis) due to his mourning over the death of his girlfriend Charity Chase. Although Charity was believed to have committed suicide, this wasn't the case as Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke lured Charity to a cliff, hoping to terrorize her into breaking up with Drew, but ended up killing her by accident.
A year to the day of Charity's death, Romanian foreign exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly) arrives during the class of clumsy Media Arts Professor Mr. Chauncey (Christopher Lloyd). Katarina and Drew immediately become friends. Jealous from this, Danielle tries to do everything in her power to stop this friendship developing into love. In an attempt to get close to Drew, Danielle works at the elderly home where Drew is also working. While there, she is assigned to look after an old lady (Janet Leigh) whom she believes is in a coma. Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke use this opportunity to raid the old lady's cupboard and eat her box of chocolates.
In the following two weeks, the three girls begin to notice that something strange is happening to them, they are receiving back pains and their hair is turning gray - to their horror they discover that they are aging at a rapid speed. They believe this has something to do with Katarina whom they now think is in fact Charity's ghost coming back to seek revenge. The three decide the only way to regain their youth is to kill Drew and let his spirit be with Charity. On the night of Danielle's 18th birthday party, the three lure Drew to the same gorge where Charity died and attempt to shoot him. Katarina shows up and says she is not Charity's ghost. Danielle briefly ponders this but decides to shoot them both anyway. However, Brooke (the kindest of all the three) says that they have gone too far and tries to prevent Danielle from pulling the trigger to which Drew disarms her (due to Danielle being distracted by a party guest dressed in a clown suit from her party who is secretly Mr. Chauncey and she shoots him), and both Tiffany and Danielle are overcome from exhaustion.
After they're carried to the old age home, Tiffany is hooked on a life support machine and Danielle is barely alive. At that moment, Mrs. Witt, the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for, shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. The grandmother then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late friend's husband that works with biological warfare technology). While Danielle and Tiffany had eaten most of the poisoned chocolate, Brooke wasn't near death as she didn't eat as many and demonstrated self-control. In response to this revelation, Danielle flips the bird at Mrs. Witt, and then dies, with Tiffany presumably following shortly afterwards.
At Danielle and Tiffany's funeral, everyone is in attendance, including Drew and Katarina (now an official couple) attends. Brooke is also in attendance after a plastic surgeon's operation give her a 50-year-old's appearance. Chauncey forgives her as he knew she wasn't as cruel as Danielle and Tiffany, and she regrets what she has done.
Danielle and Tiffany are then revealed to be in a luxurious room with their youth restored and are convinced that they are in heaven. But it is revealed that they are actually in hell as they are forced to forever endure the company of their school's most annoying dork, Jonathan Wharton (Aaron Paul), who is completely devoted to Danielle's every move. As such, he reveals that he committed suicide just to be with her forever and briefly morphs into the devil, to her and Tiffany's horror.

Tags: comedy, cruelty, murder, plot twist, flashback, revenge

Review:
Shamefully Good...Almost.
Having two actresses that I think are really good - Monica Keena ("Dawsons Creek", "Freddy vs.
Jason") and Nicole Bilderbeck ("Clueless" and "Bring It On") intrigued me to watch this film - plus it seemed in the style of the fantastic "Mean Girls".
Instead, the film was a bit of a let down, though it had some good moments.
Julie Benz gets most of the screen time, and she is pretty decent, while Monica Keena and Nicole Bilderbeck are good, this is not their best work.The rest of the cast didn't fare much better.
Suzanna Urszulay was uninteresting as the new girl, Jonathan Brandis (R.I.P) was nice to look at, but rather bland, and Chris D'Elia was only funny until he became annoying.
Janet Leigh (R.I.P), gives, as usual, a terrific performance in her small role, though I wonder what she was thinking when she signed up for it.
Christopher Lloyd is funny as the school teacher.The film seems to try a bit hard in places, and fails.
It also seems of poor quality, for example, when the three girls are in the school, there isn't the usual back ground noise you would expect, and it is very noticeable.
There are far worse films that one could watch, but there are far better ones also.
Only the actors redeem this film..
Mildly entertaining.
I watched this movie circa 2005/2006 and didn't think I wasted my money on the rental...
it was enjoyable.Do not take it too seriously.
It was filmed just off the mark from the 90s/00s boundary in 2000 (which is why it gives off that 90s vibe) and apparently ran into financial difficulties during post production and thus did not get released to the general public until 2005.It's a typical high school teen comedy flick except with a supernatural / curse theme.
The movie is pretty mundane in its use of the "bitch girl" clichés but if you are seriously just looking for a way to kill some time and the chick flick genre is your penchant...
this movie isn't half bad..
Thanks Jonathan!.
It's good to know that Jonathan Brandis and Janet Leigh's finals films are available for their many fans.
Both actors had such talent.
Janet's long career strewn with gem's of her stellar talent.
And Jonathan's shining efforts, tragically cut short, a loss to the film making community.
Final films of many artist are not always what we'd call the finest examples of their craft.
But the fact that two years after their deaths, that the public still want's to see their work must mean a lot to their family.
I had the pleasure of knowing Jonathan for a brief period in the 90's and he was the most charming and friendly of persons.~Jonathan thank you for all your gifts you've left us.~ ~Janet--- you sure could scream!.
Definite acquired taste for a girls night in.
I give it a 4 for effort.
This is not a great or meaningful l movie by no means, but one for a girls night in and a bottle of wine.
I actually watched it with my very mature 8 year old son,we thought it was funny stupid.
He actually asked to change it, but when the girl *tooted* in the gym he got interested, LOL!
I love how they threw in a great actor, Christopher Lloyd.
So I would NEVER suggest this movie to anyone, but if you are bored or have nothing to watch or you are just adventurous and curious and just want to watch another movie, then go for it!!!I gave it a 4 out of ten for effort..
Terrible.
Put this in the same category as "Death to Smoochy" a movie about characters that are incapable of eliciting audience sympathy both the good guys and the bad guys alike.
Everyone is wasted in this, and the prat falls of Chris Lloyd are below Disney Channel standards.
The actress who plays Katarina, though nice to look at, is just a confusing and ugly mess of traits that seem arbitrary and wholly unrealistic.
This smacks of a cheap Mean Girls cash in, but where Mean Girls had a heart this has a gaping black hole.
Not a likable or intriguing character among the bunch.
Just absolutely terrible.
The twist is obvious from the outset, and the ending is beyond cruel given the tone of the film prior to it.
Just an embarrassing mess..
It's funny in a pathetic kind of way.
I wanted to watch this movie because it was Jonathan Brandis' "last movie" so to speak.
Well it has very little to do with him or his acting.
They don't even test his acting.
Here are my main observations on this movie.1) This is a movie just reeking of mid to late 90's culture and it was released in 2005?!
That had me rolling.
I'm sure this was only released to the public based on the death of Brandis and Leigh which is sad.
But dude, is this valley girl type movie dated or what?
even for 2005 the people who saw it were shocked to see how much fashion had changed.
Nobody cared about Valley Girl crap anymore.
It was 10 years since Clueless!
I think one girl had a cell phone, it was 2005.
This is what happens when you release movies years later.
The world goes and changes on you.2) Julie Benz as a high schooler?
She was 28 playing a 17 year old and when you first see her on film there is no getting around the fact she does not belong in high school.
Neither does Brandis for that sake.
It's so sad.
**It's funny to note a year after this came out on DVD she plays Dexter's girlfriend in the hit Showtime show of the same name.
That's how dated this movie was, even then.3) Christopher Lloyd.
His pratfalls were relentless and pathetically hilarious.
If he died right after this movie we would have felt so bad for him when we saw this.
Maybe he was really in the red that year and had to do what it took.
Why cast him in the first place?
Way too qualified.4) Chris D'Elia and Aaron Paul are actually very funny in a sub moronic way.
Aaron's character is insanely hyperactive to say the least.5) The end is just cruel and goes against the grain of this thing.
Give it a try, it has be seen to be believed.However, I do like that this movie doesn't take itself seriously and the director clearly used a light hand with this one.
I rate this movie a 5 out of 10.
It's just too pitiful and funny to hate this popsickle stick movie.
Watch it for Aaron's performance alone..
Solid teen (black) comedy.
Although released to video in 2005, "Bad Girls From Valley High" was actually shot in 1999 and shelved for legal (or financial) reasons.
The plot revolves around three selfish uppity girls (Julie Benz, Nicole Bilderback & Monica Keena) who are responsible for the death of a girl (Tanja Reichert) of whom the leader (Benz) is jealous.
A year later a mysterious exchange student appears (Suzanna Urszuly) and the girls start to wonder if she may be a ghost of vengeance, particularly as they start prematurely aging.
Jonathan Brandis, Chris D'Elia, Christopher Lloyd and Janet Leigh have important peripheral roles.It's too bad this movie fell into obscurity because it works well for what it is.
It's got the pizazz and quirkiness this type of film requires and a number of laugh-out-loud scenes, plus there's no unnecessary raunch or general obnoxiousness, except of course for the main "Hun" girl (Benz).
Tanja Reichert is a highlight, but she appears so briefly she's almost not worth mentioning; and Keena is a cutie but they don't do enough with her.
But Lloyd is his usual entertaining self.
Brandis would commit suicide four years later and Leigh would pass away in five.The film was shot in Vancouver (but the story takes place in Washington) and runs a short-but-sweet 84 minutes.GRADE: B.
"A brilliant teenage comedy".
'A Fate Totally Worse Than Death' is quite a provocative title.
In my country this film is called 'Bad Girls From Valley High' which I think was made to hide what sort of film this really is.
This film is about three teenage school girls named Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke who are each the closest of friends.
They are also vain, selfish and quite mean.
They will do anything to get what they want especially Danielle who only has eyes for fellow student Drew and she will eliminate any other girl who becomes attracted to Drew.
Well now these mean and selfish young girls are about to suffer their worst nightmare.
Someone has placed a curse on them, and the curse is rapid aging.
Their hair turns grey, their skin goes wrinkly, and they become weaker and weaker.
So these beautiful teenage girls change into ugly elderly women within a matter of days.
They are literally rotting!
For such beautiful girls this is a fate far worse than death!
This film had good performances by all the actors.
I really liked the high school teacher in this film who is played by Christopher Loyyd a comedian who is best known for his role as Dr Emmet Brown in the 'Back To The Future' films.
This film is based on a novel by Paul Fleischman who writes funny novels for teenagers and if his books are this good I might consider reading them.
So I recommend this film for anyone who likes comedies about teenage girls..
Really bad may be a bit of a spoiler.
OK first things first, everything just looked so fake, it was the most pointless movie i ever had to watch , there was barley any story line and the main character looked about 40 at the start anyway, then wen she got changed to look older .
u could hardly notice the difference, i watched this movie 4 times because i thought that there may be something to get that only i was not getting, on the final time i watched it with a friend and she was sat there like :S errrrr why are we watching this..
and then it dawned on me ...
i really do not know why i would watch this once let alone four times..
this probably will not be useful but all I'm trying to say is.
Do not watch it, don't waist you time, its not worth it .
you could make up a better movie in your head..
sucks.
Worst film I've seen in my life..
I'd give this film a negative score if I could.It's about 3 despicably moronic, selfish girls who eat chocolate then grow old and die...need I say more?
This film was one of the only bad films my dad has ever recommended and truthfully to this day I can't comprehend why I actually sat through such a disgusting film based around these horrible people.
I don't think I'll ever understand it.
Just please trust that the title of this film will escape you the second's it's turned off....and that's for the better because you are never going to want to see it again.Do not see this film.
It'll be 2 hours of your life you will NEVER get back.
The effects are awful, the concept sucks, the acting sucks and the ending is ridiculously annoying.