Lethal Ladies | Offscreen
Genre movies, exploitation films and B-series typically portray women as helpless victims or brainless bimbos. But this B to Z program will feature women in all their superb, intrepid and rebellious glory.
The Roger Corman production "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" is a feminist take on the 70s-era road movie, in which two young heroines wreak havoc on the Lone Star state. These partners in crime include the queen of drive-ins, Claudia Jennings - 1970 Playboy Playmate of the year - and Jocelyn Jones ("Tourist Trap"). A cocktail of spectacular car chases, explosions, vulgarity, sex and nudity.
In "Savage Streets", pretty young university students get into a spat with a group of L.A. punks, which quickly degenerates into the gang-raping of a young, deaf-mute girl (Linnea Quigley, queen of the Scream Queens). Her older sister, played by Linda Blair (child star turned 80s B-movie icon) goes on a hunting spree, armed with a crossbow and steel trap. A classic of the sleaze genre with disquieting amounts of gratuitous violence and nudity.
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
AKA "Dynamite Women" - this precursor to "Thelma and Louise" is like The Dukes of Hazzard on overdrive.
Savage Streets
Linda Blair ("The Exorcist") takes her revenge on a gang of punks in this brutal eighties vigilante film.