Posted: Thu., Dec. 31, 1987, 11:00pm PT

Assault of the Killer Bimbos

By Variety Staff

Titan. Director Anita Rosenberg; Producer David DeCoteau, John Schouweiler; Writer Ted Nicolaou; Camera Thomas Callaway Editor Barry Zetlin; Music Fred Lapides, Marc Ellis Art Royce Mathew

Christina Whitaker Elizabeth Kaitan Tammara Souza Nick Cassavetes Griffin O'Neal Jamie Bozian

Assault of the Killer Bimbos is the kind of engagingly dumb, slyly hip pic that is tailor-made for cult enjoyment. First-timer Anita Rosenberg has fashioned an under-$1 million pic [from a story by her, Patti Astor and Ted Nicolaou] that dips and sways with its own kind of bimbotic integrity.

Chief bimbos are played by Christina Whitaker and Elizabeth Kaitan as go-go dancers in a dead-end nightclub who are mistakenly taken for murderers after their boss gets bumped off by hoods. On the 1am to Mexico, they pick up a willing hostage - truckstop waitress Tammara Souza - and three cartoonish surf bums played by Jamie Bozian and moviebiz brats Nick Cassavetes and Griffin O'Neal.

Road adventures, which include a high-speed chase on the desert highway complete with a flying police car stunt, end in a low-rent Tijuana motel. Head bimbo Whitaker has the kind of unshakeable cool that makes her look like she's cruising Ocean Avenue even while driving a getaway car out of a truckstop.

(Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1988. Running time: 81 MIN.