06.09.2024 | BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (US 1965, Doris Wishman)

Retrospective | BAD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN

US 1965, D: Doris Wishman, A: Gigi Darlene, Charles E. Mazin, Sam Stewart, 65’, English OV, DCP

“I go to New York – I’ll get lost in the crowds there.” After Meg Kelton kills her rapist inside her apartment building in self-defence, she flees to New York with a new identity and without telling her husband. It is only a brief respite, however, because the metropolis also is full of men who are up to no good with her. Doris Wishman’s BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL is an early example of US low-budget exploitation cinema, which on the one hand “exploits” its erotic and violent spectacle values and on the other criticises a patriarchal society in which women face constant threats. 

Fri 6 Sept	UT Connewitz
10 pm	€ 7 (6 reduced)

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