The Switchblade Sisters

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Jim L Best silly B movie ever made Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/09/24 Full Review Steve D Some good ideas but it never comes together. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/17/23 Full Review brad p Switchblade Sisters is exploitation sleaze with likable characters and a strong message of female empowerment. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Maggie (Joanne Nail) transfers from across town to a new high school that is essentially run by the Silver Daggers, a rough, hierarchical male gang, and their female counterparts, the Dagger Debs. A confrontation between the Dagger Debs and a repo man gets all the female members — and Maggie — arrested. Because Maggie is new, a lecherous lesbian warden at the juvenile detention center (Kate Murtagh) threatens to physically abuse her. Maggie fights back and eventually the Dagger Debs join her. Subsequently, Dagger Deb leader Lace (Robbie Lee) decides she likes Maggie and entrusts her with running errands while she serves a brief sentence in juvenile hall. One such errand – delivering a love note to Lace's boyfriend, Dominic (Asher Brauner) – ends in Dominic following Maggie home and raping her. Maggie's close friendship with Lace upsets Lace's closest friend, Patch, who lost one of her eyes in service to the gang and now sees herself as second-in-command. Lace is released from juvenile hall and reunites with Dominic, telling him that she discovered she was pregnant during her incarceration. Dominic disavows fatherhood and refuses to help Lace care for the child, encouraging her to undergo an abortion. Meanwhile, the Silver Daggers have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs (Chase Newhart), at the high school... Jack Hill´s exploitation action film from 1975 is a gem I must say with a strong female empowering storyline, despite them doing all sorts of criminal gang activities and also how the female characters are treated by men and also amongst themselves. The movie was not a success at the box office, but garnered a cult following later on. Most of its current popularity can be attributed to film director Quentin Tarantino, who named the picture a personal favorite and re-released it in 1996 under his Rolling Thunder Pictures label. The film's tagline is "So Easy to Kill, So Hard to Love." It´s a true B-movie with wobbly acting, wobbly dialogue, wobbly scenes and action sequences with clearly stuntmen in wigs :). But, that´s ok. It doesn´t take away the entertainment from the film. I love Joanne Nail as Maggie. She rocks. Trivia: While filming, the titles Playgirl Gang and The Jezebels were considered. Hill states in the DVD commentary that he figures not enough people would know what a Jezebel was, however. Thus, Switchblade Sisters was chosen, even though the phrase is not spoken in the movie. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Loads of fun in this camp classic. It may just be Jack Hill's best. It's sleazy exploitation that actually goes for female empowerment over the typical cheap thrills of this genre. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/03/21 Full Review Audience Member Switchblade Sisters is an excellent example of '70s exploitation cinema. Jack Hill delivers a gut-busting assortment of outrageous action, questionable acting, and unreal dialogue. While many may be discouraged by these qualities, they are charms rather than obstacles. Switchblade Sisters still feels like an important stepping stone in cinema history. Arguably, without Hill's political and feminist undertones there may not have been Charlie's Angels (2000) or Kill Bill (2003). Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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