Wildly plotted, unpredictable and hugely entertaining slice of grindhouse cinema. The plot by director Arthur Marks sees the two children of the recently deceased town tramp Bonnie – Ellie (Tiffany Bolling) and Myra (Robin Mattson) – killing their drunken predator stepfather and heading-off to live with their rich Uncle Ben (Scott Brady) in his El Paso mansion. Ben, however, is a ruthless vice and crime boss and sucks Ellie and Myra into one of his plots involving laundering dirty cash. Things don’t go according to plan and Ellie and Myra soon have the cops and a couple of hired hitmen on their trail. Marks’ script is absolute drive-in gold – it is unrelentingly sleazy, full of strange left field turns and populated with a set of totally amoral characters, including Ellie and Myra. It manages to squeeze in sex, nudity, lesbianism, violence, murder, suicide, teen angst, wild dialogue, car chases, gun battles and an unexpectedly downbeat ending. Marks directs with energy, pace and absolute efficiency, the film moving at speed from one improbably sleazy set up to the next. Tiffany Bolling and Robin Mattson are great in the lead roles as the sexy, uninhibited, amoral teenagers who bring real scuzzy flair to their roles. Alex Rocco and Timothy Brown are great as a pair of hitmen hot on their trail. One is white and one is black, and they bring a neat line in buddy banter – an obvious inspiration for “Pulp Fiction”. Overall “Bonnie’s Kids” is absolute drive-in gold; a hard-to-beat slice of exploitation thrills and sleazy noir shenanigans with a pair of great femme fatale leads. ( )