The Student Nurses

a pretty solid feminist drama about the bleaker realities of youth and asserting power in the heat of women's lib and counterculture revolution where the girls take their clothes off every 10 minutes so it could be sold as softcore porn.

Josh Lewis

“There are many things in medicine that are brutal.” Left wing exploitation cinema par excellence; put some big boobs in your movie  and the bigger boobs paying for it will never notice they’re being sold a pro-choice, anti war, ACAB, staunchly misandrist bill of goods by…

Adam Nayman

My first Stephanie Rothman movie and it is both an endearingly innocent movie about women who won't be spiritually broken by the patriarchy while also being a defense of women's sexuality and their right to choose. I don't know what Roger Corman was expecting in return…

Paul Thomas

Lots of hippy-dippy stuff and feminist impulses from Stephanie Rothman, enjoying the directorial freedom allotted to her by Roger Corman in exchange for some boobs. My first watch from the New World Pictures naughty nurses collection. Hoping for sleazier sexcapades in…

Sofa Sinema

I never tire of this film! In a different world, I would have loved this to be a TV series following these four women week after week.

Casey Scott

Blurring the mostly nonexistent line between the arthouse and the grindhouse, Stephanie Rothman paints a tapestry of modern urban life that’s socially aware, occasionally surreal, a bit aimless at times, but always decidedly humanistic.  The Student Nurses follows four…

AD917

I decided to start off 2025 by closing off a personal blind spot. I’d actually first heard about this one back in my Rotten Tomatoes forum days when a poster with a J.E. Freeman avatar touted this as a favourite. And its reputation has certainly climbed over the last decade…

Rock

I wasn't expecting a lot from The Student Nurses, the first in a long line of nurse exploitation films. I got even less than I anticipated. Of course the acting is terrible and the storyline is paper-thin. While the actresses playing the four student nurses are sexy, you…

DavidSkolnick

In 20 years there is going to be a documentary on how important Tubi was to our society.

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