Scrubbers

sapphic misery: the movie

raindogs_

Scrubbers is a film with aspirations to align itself to the visceral anger and boiling tension that was perfectly encapsulated by Alan Clarke's Scum, only this time inside a young woman's 'social rehabilitation' institution. Scum with boobs, if you will. What could…

Graham

This was an attempt to make a female version of Alan Clarke’s Scum, the powerful 1979 film which starred Ray Winstone. They even enlisted Roy Minton to write it, but he essentially disowned the finished film, dismissing it as “the worst film ever made”. That’s a gross…

Simon

"There was none of this autism, ADHD, LGBTQIALMNOP stuff back in my day!!!1!!" Back in their day:

Loveday (18+)

1982 In Review - September #14 Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls. A film very much in the shadow of the other prison film from about this time, Scum. It tells the story of two women who escape from a prison at the…

Michael501 📺

women! gone! wild! it’s so gay, and so mean and psychologically intense…. and the outfits…. ultimately I think Zetterling has a lot to say about rowdy women being treated horribly by, that’s right, SOCIETY and how that, in turn, makes them more rowdy and vengeful…. gonna be…

Juanita

No matter how much it wants to be, this is less a sister piece to Alan Clarke and Roy Minton's Scum and more a shrill and hollow antecedent to the soap Bad Girls, it's all the more amazing to consider that Minton himself had a hand in Scrubbers. In his defence however,…

Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸

Wanted this to work for me because the grandiose was so appealing but it just was unfocused and messy and didn’t really know what it wanted to focus on. There was a few really cool moments that I enjoyed and the lighting at times was really cool but just so many more misses…

mikywee

Young women in a borstal. Now that's a word I don't hear everyday. Tremendous potential but feels a bit rushed into production without a totally clear story. I liked the spirit of it.

fran cesca