Violated!

Very strange this one. Given as the title is an exploitation film and being a rape and revenge one it turns out to be very strange indeed. At first there is a large number of brutal rape scenes (and a swastika carved in the poor girl's flesh) and then it all changes around. There are serious comments about the difficulties of convicting in rape cases, although when the girls think they have found the rapist it becomes rather amusing but then it gets really serious because they have to have a chair. A home-made electric chair! And at the very end the freeze frame of the masked rapist and dialogue overlap suggesting that maybe all men are possible rapists. Albert Zugsmith was usually a producer, writer, director of exploitation but he also just produced Touch of Evil in 1958 although the same year as The Female Animal. He made more than 20 films and then his very last one.

This is a fun, albeit, uneven rape revenge movie that starts off with as a serial rapist runs rampant; assaulting not only our cast of characters but many others who are only talked about over the radio. It makes for a feel that the city is in crisis as everywhere we turn a new assault has occurred, often leaving the victim in need of severe medical care. But since the identity of the rapist isn't known the revenge part becomes equal parts whodunit and Death Wish as our squad of assault survivors take it upon themselves to find the guilty party at all cost. It definitely suffers from some inconsistent pacing but the final act more than makes up for it as the film goes further than most viewers would probably expect from such a flick.