Bad Girls Go to Hell
{{Short description|1965 American film by Doris Wishman}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Bad Girls Go to Hell
| image = Bad Girls2.jpg
| caption = Promotional release poster
| director = Doris Wishman
| producer = Doris Wishman
| writer = Doris Wishman (as Dawn Whitman)
| narrator =
| starring = Gigi Darlene
George La Rocque
Sam Stewart
| music =
| cinematography = C. Davis Smith
| editing = Ali Bendi
| distributor = Juri Productions Inc.
Sam Lake Enterprises
| released = {{Film date|1965}}
| runtime = 65 minutes (worldwide release)
71 minutes (US){{cite web | work=imdb.com | title=Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058933/| access-date=2007-10-22| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071013150237/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058933/| archive-date= 13 October 2007 | url-status= live}}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Bad Girls Go to Hell is a 1965 American sexploitation film written, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Gigi Darlene, Sam Stewart, Barnard L. Sackett, and Darlene Bennett. The film contains soft-core sexual situations and is considered one of the director's first "roughies", "a trash-cinema genre that flourished briefly in the years before court cases legalized hardcore porn, and Wishman was one of the important figures in the form."{{Cite web |last=Surridge |first=Matthew |date=2021-07-21 |title=Bad Girls Go to Hell is Fascinating Sexploitation |url=https://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/bad-girls-go-to-hell-is-fascinating-sexploitation |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=Splice Today |language=en}}
Plot
Meg is a Boston housewife, who is sexually assaulted by a custodian at her apartment building. Killing him during the attack, she flees to New York City. She is then befriended by a series of people with whom she becomes emotionally and sexually involved, all the while trying to evade a narrowing police dragnet.
The film is structured around a long dream sequence and features a surprise ending.
Cast
- Gigi Darlene as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green
- George La Rocque as the Husband who rapes Meg
- Sam Stewart as Ed Bains
- Gertrude Cross (as Sandee Norman) as Mrs. Thorne
- Alan Feinstein (as Alan Yorke) as Ted Kelton
- Barnard L. Sackett (as Bernard L. Sankett) as Tom
- Darlene Bennett as Tracy / Della
- Marlene Starr as the Wife who rents Meg the room (and the actress who appears on the cover)
- Harold Key as the custodian
Home media
In 2008, Apprehensive Films released Bad Girls Go to Hell on DVD.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0212878/ |title=Apprehensive Films [us] |author= |date= |publisher=IMDb |access-date=20 July 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrippledmasters.com/badgirlsgotohelldvd.html |title=Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD |author= |date= |publisher=The GrindHouse |access-date=20 July 2010}}
The film was included in the Blu-Ray collection "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years" {{cite web | url=https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-films-of-doris-wishman-the-moonlight-years-agfa-something-weird?variant=40317636280362 | title=The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years }} from AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) and Something Weird Video, released in September 2022.
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0058933|title=Bad Girls Go to Hell}}
- {{YouTube|r1vMA3k7_M8|Trailer}}
- [https://www.criterionchannel.com/bad-girls-go-to-hell/videos/bad-girls-go-to-hell] at The Criterion Collection
Reviews
- [http://www.forbisthemighty.com/pages/bad_girls.htm Acid Radio - review]
- {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130221152922/http://www.cultflicks.net/drama/bad-girls-go-to-hell.html Cultflicks - review and trivia]}}
- [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/515365/bad-girls-go-to-hell Turner Classic Movies - review]
- [http://brightlightsfilm.com/frame-analysis-title-sequence-doris-wishmans-bad-girls-go-hell-1965/ Bright Lights Film Journal - Analysis of title sequence]
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Category:American LGBTQ-related films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1960s English-language films
Category:1960s exploitation films
Category:Films directed by Doris Wishman
Category:Lesbian-related films
Category:Films set in New York City