A Gun for Jennifer

{{Infobox film

| name = A Gun for Jennifer

| image = A_Gun_for_Jennifer_Poster.jpg

| caption =

| director = Todd Morris

| writer = Todd Morris
Deborah Twiss

| producer = Deborah Twiss

| starring = Deborah Twiss

| cinematography = Joe di Gennaro
Eliot Rockett
David Tumblety

| editing = Todd Morris
Rachel Warden

| music = JF Coleman

| studio = Independent Partners

| distributor = Action Gitanes
Conspiracy Films Inc.

| released =

| runtime = 85 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

A Gun for Jennifer is a 1997 rape and revenge film thriller film directed by Todd Morris and starring Deborah Twiss. It follows a feminist vigilante group who castrate suspected rapists and batterers while a female police officer attempts to stop them.{{cite web|last=Bergeron|first=Patricia|title=Deborah Twiss and Todd Morris of "A Gun For Jennifer|date=30 July 1997 |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/deborah_twiss_and_todd_morris_of_a_gun_for_jennifer|publisher=IndieWire|access-date=9 October 2013}} It is shot in a retro exploitation style and premiered at the Fantasia Festival in July 1997,{{cite news|title=A different kind of chick flick|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/436853201|access-date=9 October 2013|newspaper=Courier Post|date=Mar 25, 1999|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610193953/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courierpostonline/doc/436853201.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar%2025,%201999&author=&pub=Courier%20Post&edition=&startpage=&desc=A%20different%20kind%20of%20chick%20flick|url-status=live}} where it was sold-out an hour before screening and received a standing ovation.

The film went unreleased for years; Fangoria reported that it had been picked up for distribution by Mondo Macabro, but the release never came to fruition.{{cite web|title=July 5: A GUN FOR JENNIFER finally gets its shot |url=http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=4587 |publisher=Fangoria (Web Archive) |access-date=9 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623051451/http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=4587 |archive-date=June 23, 2007 }} Finally, in November 2023 it was released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome.{{cite web|title=Vinegar Syndrome Archive: A Gun for Jenniefer|url=https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/a-gun-for-jennifer|publisher=Vinegar Syndrome|access-date=25 November 2023}}

The movie was covered in the documentary In the Belly of the Beast,{{cite book|last=Kerekes|first=David|title=Headpress 23: Funhouse|year=2002|publisher=Headpress|isbn=1900486180|page=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z50gMXoYFJIC&q=%22Gun+for+Jennifer%22&pg=PA16}} which detailed Morris and Twiss's discovery that their financier (whom Twiss had met while working as an exotic dancer){{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Fest features filmmakers far from mainstream|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB422B82A02C37D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=9 October 2013|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=August 13, 1996}} had been embezzling money.{{cite web|title=Manson Family/ In the Belly of the Beast (reviews)|date=April 2005 |url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/manson-family-the-dvd|publisher=Dread Central|access-date=9 October 2013}}{{cite web|title=The Manson Family/In the Belly of the Beast|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/14878/manson-family-the/|publisher=DVD Talk|access-date=9 October 2013}}