The Switchblade Sisters

“Switchblade Sisters” is just about the grimiest, messiest, most high drama of all modern Shakespeare adaptions.  You gotta believe that the bard himself would have loved it.  Director Jack Hill’s film transplants “Othello” from Italy to the suburban slums of California.…

theriverjordan

If it weren't for the homophobic confrontation in the prison and the rape that was brushed off, this woulda been a great, almost feminist exploitation flick.

Sally Jane Black

Jack Hill really hit it out of the park with this one. A warped feminist girl gang exploitation take on Shakespeare. Switchblade Sisters lays its scene in a broken down society; a place where the balance of power is held firmly in favour of the juvenile delinquents that…

Slig001

An excellent girl-gang-sploitationer from Jack Hill with lots of badass chicks, cheesy moments and great action (that's action, not acting). It's always fun to revisit a classic with Michelle.

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

"driven out of business by punks and cops, and I hope they both go to hell" gets more right about america than almost any canonical, award winning, studio film of the era

Justin LaLiberty

even though this has multiple sexual assualts, homophobia, cruel jokes, and all of the girl's actions center around men, i still think this is a feminist movie simply because all the actresses took a stupid, totally masculine script and performed it so powerfully it became…

sydney

that’s for angela, power to the people!!!! hell-bent for leather, sisterhood, and anarchism. in the poverty-stricken city of somewhere-ville, a couple of hard-boiled gals with steel along with black maoist revolutionaries fight male chauvinism in the name of the blade.…

victoria

Weirdly its been almost 20 years since I saw this last but having owned it on laserdisc thanks to Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder boutique label in the 90’s it felt like I was hanging out with old, bawdy friends.  Every scene and character was so familiar and where Jack Hill…

Joe Lynch

Might have to start my weekends with a cheesy film like this.

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