Savage Streets
1984 Directed by Danny Steinmann
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The gang war of the sexes!
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.
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Believe the trailer and you'll expect wall-to-wall primo vigilante justice, and while there's a little of that (maybe ten minutes total?) you'd be hard-pressed (or maybe just hard-up, if you know what I mean) to register anything like disappointment at the bounty of alternative pleasures you do receive: Linda Blair playing the toughest teenaged girl in the world (and not pulling it off), a dude wearing a razor blade for an earring (and totally pulling it off), the most gratuitous (and grossly misplaced) nudity in the history of awkward cinematic titties, over-the-top depictions of typical teen shenanigans like grand theft auto, gang rape, and murder-by-crossbowing-an-arrow-into-a-dude's-fucking-dick... The list is endless, and frankly unsatisfactory as an explanation of what makes Savage Streets…
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By all accounts this is a terrible movie. It's also terribly entertaining. I'm not sure that the makers of this movie were in on the joke (though I have my hunches), but I'm not interested in categorizing my enjoyment anyway. It's a fun, campy, revenge exploitation flick where the characters go to a high school where they can smoke and swear, but only get in trouble when they tear a girl's shirt off. But that's okay because the girls are all taking theirs shirts off all the time.
Also, crossbows. They're great. But why did Chewbacca have one that shot lasers? That seems illogical to me.
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What do you get when you combine Linda Blair, gratuitous nudity, cold hard revenge and a soundtrack that sounds like it belongs in a Rocky sequel? Savage Streets!
From the director of porn, porn and Friday the 13th Part V comes a tale of big-breasted ladies, tough gang members, shower scenes, shower fighting scenes (you can't make that shit up), bathing, blouse ripping, rapes and Linda claiming some of that sweet crossbow revenge! This is a regular who's who of 80's horror, and it's both shameless and shamelessly fun at the same time. Something about a foul-mouthed principal commenting on the girl's "good figures" always cracks me up.
I must say that there's a lot of silly (naked) stuff before…
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ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I can't express how much everyone has to get this movie and enjoy what seemed to be a lost classic for so long! Why it slipped under the radar is anyone's guess? Soundtrack is fantastic,please take my word for this movie if your 50/50, I think you will adore it like i always have. UNDERRATED CLASSIC,MUST WATCH!
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Savage Streets lives up to it’s reputation as a mean spirited film. It basically sets up a massively innocent character with a great Linnea Quigley as a mute girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly, being raped and beaten. There is a scene later on with a girl who is just sorting out her wedding, being thrown off a bridge. It’s pretty manipulative stuff but then if you’re watching this kind of film then you have to expect that. The problems with the film are all in the middle for me. After her sister is raped and before she goes on her revenge rampage, Linda Blair’s character doesn’t really do much. There is abut half an hour of kids just going…
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A trash classic. Clumsy, lurid, silly, wonderful.
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‘Savage Streets’ defines the “Midnight Movie”
One standout asset this rape revenge flick has is it’s pacing. It makes sense that it’s become such a cult hit since it’s so easy to watch and would be fun to revisit time and time again. In it’s climax, as the antagonist Fargo (who has the scariest IMDB photo in existence) robotically hunts down Linda Blair’s character of Brenda (who’s wearing what appears to be the same wig as Sarah Connor) in an derelict warehouse I couldn’t help think how this finale seemed strangely ‘Terminator-esque’. Since ‘Savage Streets’ was made in the same year I like to think that Danny Steinmann saw ‘The Terminator’ and came back to set yelling at everyone: “We need some more of THAT in our film”
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Bei SAVAGE STREETS handelt es sich um einen richtig schön sleazigen Exploitation Streifen von Danny Steinmann. Geile 80iger Jahre Mucke, große und kleine Möpse (Titten, nicht die Hunde) und in der Hauptrolle Linda Blair lassen Männerherzen höher schlagen.
Apropos Möpse, dem aufmerksamen (männlichen) Betrachter wird sicherlich aufgefallen sein das sich bei Linnea Quigley zwischen SAVAGE STREETS und RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD mops mäßig einiges getan hat. (Silikon Valley lässt grüßen)
Besonders zu erwähnen wäre vielleicht noch die tolle haarpracht von Frisurmonster Linda Blair, die ich persönlich einfach nur geil finde. Sogar in der Badewanne wirken Ihre Haare noch pompös, so gesehen wäre Savage Streets wohl auch ein idealer Werbefilm für "Drei Wetter Taft" geworden.Die Handlung ist bei Exploition…
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Filmed in 3B (boobs, butts and bush)
Mediocre revenge movie that was typical of the eighties. Linda Blair ably demonstrates why she was nice to look at but lacked the necessary acting skills to elevate her career beyond B-movies. It's hard to take her seriously as a bad-ass.
The movie was filled with lots of gratuitous nudity of attractive young women. While I'm not complaining about that, it needs more than that to be considered a good movie in my book.
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Savage Streets lives up to it’s reputation as a mean spirited film. It basically sets up a massively innocent character with a great Linnea Quigley as a mute girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly, being raped and beaten. There is a scene later on with a girl who is just sorting out her wedding, being thrown off a bridge. It’s pretty manipulative stuff but then if you’re watching this kind of film then you have to expect that. The problems with the film are all in the middle for me. After her sister is raped and before she goes on her revenge rampage, Linda Blair’s character doesn’t really do much. There is abut half an hour of kids just going…
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An uncomfortable (in a good, challenging way) mix of knockabout high school drama, tough rape-revenge thriller, and bandwagon-jumping slasher. Linda Blair (my, how she's grown...) stars as Brenda, a bad girl with a heart of gold who leads a run-in with a gang of 80s movie "punks", which results in them gang-raping her deaf sister. A couple of fights and a murder later, Brenda squeezes into a leather catsuit and takes her crossbow and bear traps (we've all got those in our attic, right?) to wreak vengeance. The final scene suggests that she gets clean away with it too, which is good for anyone cheering her on, if falling a tad short of dramatic realism. Still, if you enjoy knockabout high school dramas, tough rape-revenge thrillers, and bandwagon-jumping slashers, and can tolerate a few awful John Farnham songs on the soundtrack, then this'll be right up your (savage) street.
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Linda Blair was at the height of her 80's trash exploitation fame when she starred in this delectably down and dirty grindhouse epic as Brenda, an over-aged high school "bad girl" senior who's the leader of the tough all-girl gang the Satins. Trouble rears its ugly head when the Satins run afoul of a brutish all-guy street gang called the Scars (led by pockmarked sneering Neanderthal Robert Dryer). These detestable no-count hoodlums not only viciously rape Brenda's innocent deaf mute sister Heather (a very cute and endearing Linnea Quigley), but also toss Brenda's pregnant best gal pal off a bridge to her death. Man, are these guys real nasty customers. But have no fear. After sitting in a bath tub…
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By all accounts this is a terrible movie. It's also terribly entertaining. I'm not sure that the makers of this movie were in on the joke (though I have my hunches), but I'm not interested in categorizing my enjoyment anyway. It's a fun, campy, revenge exploitation flick where the characters go to a high school where they can smoke and swear, but only get in trouble when they tear a girl's shirt off. But that's okay because the girls are all taking theirs shirts off all the time.
Also, crossbows. They're great. But why did Chewbacca have one that shot lasers? That seems illogical to me.
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Someone really wanted to make Linda Blair sexy
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My how Linda Blair has grown....
As a revenge flick, with exploitation tendencies, it works well in the first half, building the story and showing off the girls. The bad guys are awful, but that's not too important.
What's worse is an ending that seems rushed, and is unfulfilling.