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Bitch Slap on DVD in April

4 February 2010

It's one of those titles that makes you smile even as you groan, explotation cinema that knows full well it's exploitation cinema and wants you to realise it as well. It's either be ludicrous camp fun or complete and utter bollocks. Check out the on-line reviews and you'll find both views evenly supported. The press release sells it with some gusto.

Prepare yourself for a racy riot of buxom brawling babes, ballistic bedlam, crazed catfights and gratuitous sapphic romps in Bitch Slap, a sassy celebration and post-modern parody of 1950s, 60s and 70s exploitation movies.

Imagine Sin City produced by Roger Corman, directed by Russ Meyer and shot in glorious Technicolor and you'll have some idea of what Bitch Slap is all about. Directed by Corman protégé Rick Jacobson, starring a trio of titillating temptresses in the form of Julia Voth (Love Hurts), Erin Cummings (Dollhouse; Dante's Cove) and America Olivo (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; Friday the 13th; Iron Man), and co-starring Xena/Hercules alumni Michael Hurst, Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor, along with Quentin Tarantino's stunt woman of choice Zoe Bell (Inglourious Basterds; Death Proof; Kill Bill), this is pure, sexy, mindless cinematic joy from sensational start to explosive finish.

The plot follows three badass chicks – stripper Trixie (Voth), corporate powerbroker Hel (Cummings)and psychotic drug-runner Camero (Olivo) – as they crash at a remote desert hideaway with a plan to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. But as allegiances change and bitter truths are revealed, the girls' plan spirals dangerously out of control, forcing them to face a variety of villains much worse than themselves and leaving the very fate of the world in the balance.

Hmm... we shall see. Bitch Slap will be released on UK DVD by Momentum Pictures on 19th April 2010 at a price yet to be confirmed. No extras have been listed as yet..