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Seen on: 06/27/2011

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Switchblade Sisters (1975)

Directed by Jack Hill

Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!

Rated R | Length 91 minutes

Actors

Kate Murtagh | Janice Karman | Robbie Lee | Bill Adler | Jeannie Epper | Roy Engel | Monica Gayle | Joanne Nail | Marlene Clark | Don Stark | Bob Minor | Asher Brauner | Georgia Lee | Kitty Bruce | Chase Newhart | Paul Lichtman | Don Marino | Helene Nelson | J.S. Johnson | Clint Young

Viewing Notes

Switchblade Sisters is one of those ‘70s exploitation/trash cinema movies I’d heard about for years but had just never caught up with til now. I’m glad I finally did!

Directed by Jack Hill, another protege of Roger Corman, and director of Blaxploitation classics Foxy Brown and Coffy, as well as a slew of other B-movie classics, Switchblade Sisters is kind of a girls’ version of Rebel Without A Cause crossed with the Women In Prison sub-genre with a little juvenile delinquency, street gang and blaxploitation thrown in for good measure.

The Dagger Debs, an all-girl arm of a male juvenile street gang, are the center of attention. The do suffer quite a bit at the hands of the violent male members of the gang, suffering all sorts of humiliation, rape, verbal and physical abuse, despite their supposed toughness. It WAS the ‘70s, after all, but still I kept wanting for the girls to cut one of the guys’ balls off with a knife.

No one is good here; everyone is bad in their own ways, right down to the cops, repo men, and female prison guards. You don’t feel particularly sorry for anyone. Instead, you get to sit back and watch everything go to hell in the inner city!

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