Savage Streets

High school hellcat gets revenge on gang-bangers & thugs in this 80's cult classic. The music soundtrack is outstanding & is truly the movie's highlight.

I went alphabetically there, not saying I priorotize one over the other in any way shape or form. Though to be clear, girls are the good ones here. Even if they may not be considered pure I reckon (the way the talk and behave and all that), but that is for the morality police to decide and be furious about. Furious is a good segway to the premise or rather inciting incident. The movie at least does not linger too long on the abuse and the fact the victim has no way to ... communicate what is being done to her is quite ingenious I guess. You can't be faint hearted or too easily offended though ... otherwise you'd have serious issues (not just with the nudity and the swearing but also the violence)! It's 80s trash to some degree, some will cherish it more than others, and some will loathe it quite a lot

Call "Savage Streets" what it is: trash. However, it is amusing, lowest-of-all-levels trash, and I enjoyed Linda Blair's upfront, colorful performance as the vengeful big sister of a rape victim. The dialogue is hilariously vulgar and self-conscious, and the girls' locker room sequence (filled with naked babes, as if this were a women-in-prison flick) provides just about the final word in exploitative catfights. The tone wavers continually from outrageous juvenalia to psychotic melodrama, and the extreme violence (as well as the rape scene) is tough to stomach. However, the film's goal is to be cartoonish junk, and that is surely realized. ** from ****

The late 70's early 80's, particularly with the push of home video, saw a deluge of trashy, violent movies that were the joy of my early teens, back in the day when renting an 18+ movie as a kid was pretty easy :). Bronx Warriors, Exterminator and in my opinion the king of them all, Class of 84, led the way in this boob filled, blood dripping bonanza. Savage Streets, whilst a lesser entry, is still pretty good for what it was trying to achieve. The draw card was (and probably still is) Linda Blair in her continued efforts to movie along from The Exorcist. Its violent, sleazy and entertaining enough although the passing of time has not been kind.

An adult thriller with period charm, SAVAGE STREETS is, like CLASS OF 1984, one of those high school movies of the 1980s that mixes sleaze and ultra violence for a surprisingly explicit thrill-ride. Seen today it's an odd mix of depravity and high camp, as Linda Blair dresses in leather and hunts members of a criminal gang with her crossbow. Her performance is OTT to say the least, but then it fits a film which never goes for restraint. There's a nasty scene of gang rape straight out of a DEATH WISH movie, alongside the obligatory gratuitous * scenes, the girl's locker room scene a notorious highlight; even Blair isn't spared. Why bother having a scene of quiet introspection when she's dressed, anyway? The revenge scenes take a long time to come, but until that point you get plenty of sassy dialogue, snarling villainy and John Vernon in a small but entertaining role as the principal.

Savage Streets (1984) is one of my favorite trashy flicks. Linda Blair is out for revenge! Dressed in black and armed with a crossbow (that has one heck of a pull) walking the streets, stalking the street scum that have wronged her family and friends. See her marinate in the tub, calculating her every move. This movie's classic Linda Blair. If you love bad movies, this ones for you. It has everything a b-movie fan loves. Bad dialog, hammy acting, pedestrian direction and sleaze (the good kind, not the one that gives you bad flashbacks or nightmares). A couple of the genre's mainstays also have supporting roles, Linnea Quigley and John Vernon make co-star appearances (what no Michelle Bauer?). This movie has bad girls, bad clothes and bad attitude. I highly recommend this movie. For trash lovers only.