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Bad Girls from Valley High is a 2005 American direct-to-video teen comedy film starring Julie Benz, Monica Keena, Nicole Bilderback, Jonathan Brandis, Janet Leigh, Christopher Lloyd and Suzanna Urszuly. The film marked the final film roles of Leigh and Brandis.

Danielle is the Alpha Bitch of a clique of mean and arrogant high school girls. Her Girl Posse, Tiffany and Brooke, are also self-centred, although Brooke sometimes feels guilty about their behaviour. Their only companions are a Jerk Jock named Gavin and a nerd named Jonathan. Danielle has been trying to win the attention of the Big Man on Campus Drew for a year, but he's not interested in her due to his mourning over the death of his girlfriend Charity. Although Charity's death was ruled a suicide, in reality Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke had lured her to a cliff, hoping to terrorize her into breaking up with Drew, but ended up killing her by accident. When a new foreign exchange student, Katarina, arrives, Drew starts paying attention to her instead of Danielle. Frustrated, Danielle decides to plot Katarina's downfall. However, things get complicated when Danielle and her friends begin to experience strange ageing effects. Desperate to regain their youth and looks, Danielle is willing to do anything, even if it means sacrificing Drew.


Bad Tropes from Valley High:

  • Abhorrent Admirer: At the end of the film, Danielle and Tiffany realise This Isn't Heaven as they are forced to forever endure the company of their school's most annoying dork, Jonathan Wharton, who is completely devoted to Danielle's every move. As such, he reveals that he committed suicide just to be with her forever.
  • Accidental Murder: Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke lured Charity to a cliff, hoping to terrorize her into breaking up with Drew, but ended up killing her by accident.
  • Accidental Public Confession: Danielle works at the elderly home where Drew is also working. While there, she is assigned to look after an old lady whom she believes is catatonic. Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke use this opportunity to raid the old lady's cupboard and eat her box of chocolates. At the end of the film, Mrs. Witt (the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for) shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder.
  • Alpha Bitch: Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke are the three richest, most popular girls in Valley High, nicknamed "The Huns" due to the exclusive housing estate they live in, Hundred Pines.
  • Death by Gluttony: At the end of the film, Mrs. Witt (the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for) shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. Witt then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late roommate's husband that worked with biological warfare technology); Brooke wasn't dying as she demonstrated self-control while Danielle and Tiffany had eaten most of the poisoned chocolate.
  • The Dog Was the Mastermind: It is ultimately revealed that the Rapid Aging being experienced by the Villain Protagonists is not a curse from Katarina or anything to do with Charity's ghost. Instead, Mrs. Witt (the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for) shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. Witt then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late roommate's husband that worked with biological warfare technology).
  • Driven to Suicide: At the end of the film, Danielle and Tiffany realise This Isn't Heaven as they are forced to forever endure the company of their school's most annoying dork, Jonathan Wharton, who is completely devoted to Danielle's every move. As such, he reveals that he committed suicide just to be with her forever.
  • Flipping the Bird: Tiffany dies during Witt's revelation, and Danielle flips the bird to Witt in response and then dies shortly afterwards.
  • Girl Posse: Tiffany and Brooke are this to Alpha Bitch Danielle. Tiffany is the Beta Bitch, while Brooke is the Token Good Teammate who is kind but is easily intimidated and manipulated by Danielle and Tiffany.
  • Motive Rant: At the end of the film, Tiffany is hooked on a life support machine and Danielle is barely alive. At that moment, Mrs. Witt (the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for) shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. Witt then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late roommate's husband that worked with biological warfare technology).
  • Never Suicide: Although Charity was believed to have committed suicide, this wasn't the case as Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke lured Charity to a cliff, hoping to terrorize her into breaking up with Drew, but ended up killing her by accident.
  • Rapid Aging: The three Alpha Bitch Villain Protagonists suffer Rapid Aging. They believe that it's a curse wrought upon them by the ghost of a girl they murdered a year ago. It turns out the girl's grandmother did it using chocolates laced with a biological weapon. The Token Good Teammate who regretted the deed is the only one who avoids aging to death since she only ate two of the chocolates.
  • Reincarnation Romance: When Drew starts showing interest in new foreign exchange student Katarina, Danielle and her Girl Posse suspect that she might be a reincarnation of Drew's former girlfriend Charity, whom they accidentally murdered. She isn't.
  • This Isn't Heaven: At the end of the film, the two Alpha Bitch Villain Protagonists die and wake up in a luxurious hotel room and are convinced they went to Heaven. Then the school dork shows up, claiming that he committed suicide to be with them and that he will be their roommate for the rest of eternity. He then briefly turns into a demon, prompting the girls to realize where they are and scream.
  • Token Good Teammate: Danielle and Tiffany are cruel and spiteful, whereas Brooke is kind but is easily intimidated and manipulated by Danielle and Tiffany. When Danielle is about to shoot Drew and Katarina, Brooke finally stands up for herself and says that they have gone too far. She tries to prevent Danielle from pulling the trigger to which Drew disarms her due to Danielle being frail and weak and also distracted by a party guest dressed in a clown suit from her party.
  • Villain Protagonist: Three snobbish high school girls prematurely age brought on from a curse, a drug (or something) after the arrival of new transfer student whom they believe is connected to a murder they committed a year earlier.

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