Sally Field's campy "Gidget" flicks have always been a guilty pleasure of mine but here the perky surfer does a bang up job portraying a Mom turned vigilante after her daughter is raped and murdered. Emphasis on the psychological and physical training of self-defense and transformation from victim to fighter mentality.
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Before Reese Witherspoon wasted all our times playing "Legally Clueless" or whatever the fuck that hot pink movie was, she made this 90's cult take on Little Red Riding Hood all centered around rape-revenge. The tragic offspring of crackho'd out Amanda Plummer, she decides to head across the LA freeway to find her grandmother's trailer rather than be hauled off to another dysfunctional foster home. Along the way she encounters the Big Bad Wolf in the form of a serial rapist played by Keifer Sutherland. She has her boyfriend's gun and manages to blow him away, but not before asking if he's "accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior." Comedy gold. Also on learning he's barely survived she openly mocks him in court about his disfigurement and colostomy bag, and has a great face off at the end.
This mute girl clocks a burglar/rapist over the head with a paperweight, cuts him up into little pieces, and disposes of the evidence bit by bit by leaving the pieces all over Manhattan. Vengeful AND industrious!
Ok, I've always had a teenybopper thing for Juliette Lewis, and her character here, Mallory, is so compelling that one of my alters even took on the name for herself! Mal's fat scumbag of a father (creepily portrayed by Rodney Dangerfield) has been sliming into her room at night on a fairly regular basis, till she and her beau Mickey whack him on the head with a crowbar and drown him in a fishtank. As her dies the last thing he hears is her yelling all his perverted molester-talk back at him mockingly.
Anime movie I saw recently where a girl with D.I.D. ends up murderering this obsessive psycho stalker with a video camera when he tries to rape her. I enjoyed this on so many levels you have no idea.
Not only is John Waters a brilliant (and friendly) man, but somewhere in this torrid tale of filth he manages to have a rapist house servant violently cut up by the two girls held captive in a dirt cellar. The couple who set it up get theirs too. The first time I saw this scene I instantly started craving a big hunk of raw steak, which I got at a diner after the movie.
Male rape happens too, and it's just as reprehensible. But the way Tarantino wrote this scene - Bruce Willis selecting bigger and better weapons, Marcellus's now famous line to Zed about getting "a blowtorch and pinchers to get medieval on your ass"- just made me giddy everytime I saw it.
And speaking of Zed, filmmaker Nick Zedd once told me that the character in Pulp Fiction was named after him. A dubious honor perhaps, but tonight Nick's getting an honorable mention here for the scene where Donna Death sentences her rapist uncle to be executed on her "giant outer-space turntable of death" or some such thing. It's silly to be sure, but even we sick vindictive types need to laugh.