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

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.

slim

My first time seeing this was a game changer. It taught me that exploitation films could be about something, not just excuses to showcase T&A and splashy violence. Hiding behind a titillating ad campaign spotlighting four beautiful women is a politically engaged and…

Casey Scott

You know this was an exploitation film made by a woman because it-gasp- humanizes its four subjects and secondly has nudity in contexts in which people are typically nude. Which makes sense since Rothman later stated she never knew she was making an "exploitation" film- she…

Jenna Ipcar