phyfutima Strange Girls seared itself into my mind, and I absolutely mean that in a good way. I saw it only once, almost a year ago, and scenes from it still haunt me. Right from the opening titles (which are colorfully set over an accidental-suicide-by-autoerotic-asphyxiation) you know you're in for a disturbing evening. Writer-Director Mark does an excellent job of taking characters who do reprehensible, psychopathic things, and making them sympathetic. She's assisted in this endeavour by overall good performances, some of which stand out as being exceptional -- the twins themselves for example, played by real life sisters Angela and Jordana Berliner, pull off the difficult roles of the title characters with believability and power. The performances of Alem Brhan Sapp and Andre Delawrence Rice Jr., as two brothers whom the twins torment, also stand out. Any flaws in the movie are too minor to mention and, I suspect, the fault only of a tight budget, so I give it a well-deserved ten stars. And it made me never want to visit Pittsburgh, which I also mean in a good way.Summing up: if John Waters had sex with Alfred Hitchcock, they'd give birth to these Strange Girls.

Lang Skrimshire The movie, set in working class Pittsburgh, centres around two seemingly near-mute twins who act out in synchronicity and occasionally communicate in a childhood language (similar to tones of Jodie Foster in Nell). The girls who are in a psychological facility want to be socialized and move out of the hospital so that they can live with each other. It becomes clear they are not that they will go to any lengths to make this happen and appear 'normal' to the authorities. If I tell you anyone more it will give away too much of the plot.Anyone with an interest in true-independent film-making, low budget horror and John Waters' camp will love this film, the acting is great especially from the twins I was lucky enough to attend the international premiere at the Edinburgh film festival on Sunday June 22, the film was sold out and a lot of people were turned away at the door.Definitely seek this film out if you can.

PhilipGHarris Full marks go to Rona Mark for doing the right thing as both director/writer and one of the producers.But be warned if you expect big budget and special effects then this will not be your thing.If you have a small budget then the two things that you really need are the right script and the right actors. I've seen far too many films flutter their budgets away on one special effect to the severe detriment of both plot and or wooden acting.This doesn't mean that the acting in Strange Girls is perfect but it's damn close to what can be achieved on budget.The plot also doesn't utilise expensive sets or locations and although some scenes (notably the psychiatric hospital) - look like a redress of another location the plot and characters yet again allow the viewer to be absorbed into the story.Mark also spends time developing her characters into fully fledged individuals and this can be noted by the time she spends on Dr Karp only to watch her die during the first reel and taking a step towards breaking some of the hard and fast set rules.The film is also funny as you watch the sisters become involved in stranger and stranger situations taking sibling rivalry to an new level.Cinematography is also good and together with music some clever moments of tension are realised (especially Max in the girls' house).This together with a liking of all the characters (whether good or bad) makes this a great movie.

paris14 Loved this flick! Touches of CLOCKWORK ORANGE & other films but totally original. Very offbeat but involving & entertaining thriller! The fact that the "villains" are also the "heroes" puts the audience in the odd position of rooting for the bad girls, while, at the same time, wanting to see them put behind bars. The acting & cinematography are of the very natural "70s" type, which helps ground the insanity before you. Violent in spurts but even more psychologically disturbed, STRANGE GIRLS is a surprise throughout. Bothered me how I could root for the girls but also root for the "victims", esp. the old coot detective who tries to track them down even though everyone dismisses him.