Runtime:
90 minutes
Directed
by: Bob Kelljan
Starring:
Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee, Lisa Moore
From:
AIP
Yep,
I watched a movie on Netflix that also has the title of Rape Squad.
No I am not a disgusting pervert. This is actually a rape revenge
fantasy sort of thing that is also exploitation. I heard about the
film on a podcast and its wacky elements made it worthy enough for a
watch.
The
plot isn't too complex: A quintet of lovely young ladies end up
getting raped by a hockey mask wearing rapist who wears a jumpsuit
and forces the women to sing... Jingle Bells. Yes. They feel that the
police isn't doing enough to try and stop the guy. So they decide to
form a Rape Squad that provides support for future ladies in the
nameless city who get assaulted and they also go after people who
they find out do these sorts of things.
Yes,
years before Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, there's a bad guy who
wears a jumpsuit and who dons a hockey mask. Interesting. The first
half hour is rather uncomfortable to watch. Sure, that's the point,
and they did it well. You not only see a few rapings from the bad
guy, but you also see the troubles that the main lady Linda (Harris)
has with the police, who don't seem as interested in the case as she
feels they should be. After she meets up with four other victims they
decide to form the Rape Squad and believe it or not some funny
moments happen.
I
mean, how can you not laugh at how they find another rapist and they
decide to trash his apartment, knock him into his beer can pyramid,
then tie him up and pour blue dye onto his genitals so that he's
marked? Or how they take off the shirt of an obscene caller they
find... and he's a big fat old guy, so they make fun of his man
boobs? Or their dealings with Percy the Pimp, who they see slapping
around one of his ho's? And heck, they start off by training in
karate and they learn from a cougar who is a karate expert and yet
makes Bruce Lee kung-fu noises whenever she fights, and she is the
leader of those ladies on most of their adventures. See what I mean
about the LOL factor?
Sure,
the acting is bad in general and at times you'll feel skeeved out.
But, it is still a female empowerment sort of film (even though it's
exploitative at the same time and you'll see plenty of nudity) so you
should watch it as it's an oddity that is worth seeing if you enjoy
the perverse.
I'll
be back tomorrow night with Twitter stories revolving around a pair
of celebrities... one of them deceased.
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