The smoking-hot ladies of "Babe and the Ballgirls" best a bunch of grunting-pig redneck men in a baseball game, and of course the guys' macho pride is wounded. Later that night, things escalate quickly, and soon the guys' star player, Roy (Gregory Scott Cummins, "Cliffhanger") is dead. Naturally, Roy's father Mino (Ken Carpenter, "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth") becomes hellbent on exacting revenge. So all of his simpleton sidekicks set after the girls, who are forced to run for their lives.
Filmmaker Tanya Rosenberg, whose only film credit this is, seemed to want to have her cake and eat it too: the exploitation-action-thriller "Blood Games" is at once blatant exploitation (complete with shower scene and a leering camera) and feminist empowerment. The girls are mostly a rough & ready bunch who can do anything these creeps can do, and better. (That said, the only male in this movie who is at least a halfway decent guy is the girls' coach Midnight (Ross Hagen, "Action U. S. A."), but even he is flawed.)
It's to the movies' benefit that the pace is breakneck once the story really kicks into gear. Rosenberg and company throw so much action and violence at you that you don't spend an undue amount of time seriously scrutinizing the script. As befitting this sort of movie, the antagonists are set up as SO loathsome that it would be hard not to cheer every time one of these creeps meets a nasty demise. And yet, there is time for SOME humor, and the third act includes one particularly atmospheric, suspenseful sequence.
All in all, a good time for devoted trash lovers, complete with an appearance by that lovable, prolific cult character actor George "Buck" Flower ("They Live"), who is in his element as one of the pursuers. (The laughs are largely the result of his presence.)
Eight out of 10.
Filmmaker Tanya Rosenberg, whose only film credit this is, seemed to want to have her cake and eat it too: the exploitation-action-thriller "Blood Games" is at once blatant exploitation (complete with shower scene and a leering camera) and feminist empowerment. The girls are mostly a rough & ready bunch who can do anything these creeps can do, and better. (That said, the only male in this movie who is at least a halfway decent guy is the girls' coach Midnight (Ross Hagen, "Action U. S. A."), but even he is flawed.)
It's to the movies' benefit that the pace is breakneck once the story really kicks into gear. Rosenberg and company throw so much action and violence at you that you don't spend an undue amount of time seriously scrutinizing the script. As befitting this sort of movie, the antagonists are set up as SO loathsome that it would be hard not to cheer every time one of these creeps meets a nasty demise. And yet, there is time for SOME humor, and the third act includes one particularly atmospheric, suspenseful sequence.
All in all, a good time for devoted trash lovers, complete with an appearance by that lovable, prolific cult character actor George "Buck" Flower ("They Live"), who is in his element as one of the pursuers. (The laughs are largely the result of his presence.)
Eight out of 10.