Bikini Bandits, the T&A-meets-assault weaponry short film series created and directed by Steven Grasse, will likely be reincarnated as a feature film.

Grasse, the mind behind Philidelphia, PA agency Gyro directed and produced Bikini Bandits, Episode 7 and screened it on Atomfilms.com, an online short film site. Details on the feature are sketchy at this point, but Grasse says he will write and direct a film, slated for release sometime in the summer of 2001.

Episode 7 was the first of what has become a series of shorts starring a number of actresses from Philidelphia-based entertainment venue, Delilah's Den. The first episode shows the buxom vixens barge into and rob a convenience store before kidnapping the large-toothed clerk (played by Grasse's brother Peter, the Gyro account-manager for client Puma), and in a bachanalian-weenie and booze sequence, stuff him to death before escaping. The follow-up episode, Bikini Bandits and The Magic Lamp was shot on location in Morocco; director Heidi Easton of Harry Nash, London co-directed the new episode with Grasse. The Magic Lamp features the gun-toting vixens in a camel-jacking scenario and Peter Grasse, as an over-sexed genie.

Four more episodes are in the works, including Bikini Bandits Go Dutch (featuring the girls in Pennsylvania Dutch territory, a la Witness), Bikini Bandits and the Time Machine, Parts One and Two (a temporal bridge to 18th century Philadelphia facilitates the seduction and defiling of George Washington and Ben Franklin) and finally, the Bikini Bandits Under the Big Top, with the girls squaring off against a rival gang of homosexual clowns. SH

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