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Chicks With Guns!
Thriller
Tagline: The first film, ever, to be banned in Sweden!
Plot Synopsis: A mute girl is savagely gang-raped and is left at a brothel,
after having been forced into drugs and lost an eye. Her parents kill
themselves in grief. She trains herself in the use of weapons and car
driving, then seeks out her enemies for a silent but cruel revenge.
Ms.45
Editorial Reviews
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Abel Ferrara, the bad boy of American independent filmmaking, made his
first splash with this violent twist on Death Wish and the revenge-vigilante
genre. Nastassja Kinski look-alike Zoë Tamerlis Lund stars as a beautiful
mute seamstress in New York's garment district, a shrinking violet who
is brutally raped and assaulted not once but twice in the same day. After
dispatching the second predator in an adrenaline-driven rush of panic,
she pockets his handgun and disposes of the body in small chunks. Tamerlis
makes the most of her wordless role, her wide-eyed vulnerability hardening
to a dead-eyed determination as she transforms from quivering victim to
avenging dark angel, a one-woman vigilante force hunting pimps, perverts,
sickos, and slimeballs and using herself as bait. Consider this Ferrara's
Taxi Driver, a very different portrait of New York's mean streets. Though
this shot-on-the-cheap production occasionally suffers from amateurish
performances in supporting roles, Ferrara's impeccable eye for composition
and bravura sense of editing create momentum that carries it through to
its memorable Halloween party finale. Tamerlis is decked out in a nun's
habit with a slash of lipstick across her face, a handgun tucked in a
garter, and a contract out on the entire male sex. It's a deliriously
effective exploitation thriller that undercuts every expectation of the
genre. Ferrara makes a cameo as the first attacker. Tamerlis later cowrote
and costarred in Ferrara's most notorious production, Bad Lieutenant.
--Sean Axmaker
Product Description
A young, voluptuous New York City woman is intensely shy and unable to
speak. Her naive beauty provokes the aggressive attention of all men.
One evening while walking home, she is assaulted at gunpoint and brutally
raped by two thugs. Her enormous fears, which had driven her inward before,
now push her to an outward course of action. After killing one of her
assailants, she cuts his body into pieces and disposes of the parts, one
by one, at various spots in Manhattan. She carries her dead assailant's
.45 automatic, initially for protection, but ultimately for unrelenting
revenge against all males. Men, keep your legs crossed for this frightfully
erotic thriller that delves into the life of a nubile young maiden out
for blood.
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