Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes.

Today’s theme: Slasher!

Supposedly, director Meredith Lucas was unable to find distribution for this movie and unable to pay back her debts, killed herself. Her brother, Michael A. Lucas, eventually was able to distribute the film in 1988. But she never existed. She’s just Michael A. Lucas.

Joe Morton has been on the beat for three decades but he’s never seen anything like these girls. Sarah (Robin Gingold) is a Jewish girl who loves Hitler. Rawhide (Melissa Lawrence) wants to be John Wayne. Fleabrain (Jo Anne Wyman) is, well, a fleabrain. And the religious Dorothea (Simone Margolis) rounds out the crew. They cut classes at St. Jerome’s School for Girls, they drink, they abuse men. And when someone kills Dorothea, they get revenge.

It’s also got a black velvet Charles Bronson.

Sarah gets it, other than the obsession with the Third Reich. At one point, she says, “I hate life. I hate school. I hate my parents. Most of all, I hate every day that passes.” I get it. I feel that way at 53.

Also, there are ninjas.

“When the material and creative forces of women become corrupted by the brutality of the everyday world, a force of incredible violence is unleashed, its bloodlust insatiable. In this modern, enlightened, yet terrible age, even religion seems powerless against the wrath of the female who is, it has been maintained, the deadlier of the species.”

I get why Lucas wanted to have a female name direct this, as it would take away the exploitation of the male gaze. But Ed Wood and Russ Meyer also made movies like this and weren’t afraid to put their name up front. The girls in this would probably abuse him just like every man in this.

Someone gets sodomized with a drill, so there’s that.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.