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Directed by Doris Wishman | 65 minutes | 15+ | 55th Anniversary |
7:00pm Saturday, 31 May | Pink Flamingo Down Under | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
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One of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, writer-director-editor Wishman created DIY collisions between surrealism and exploitation that make disorienting style and gutter poetry out of meagre resources.
In Bad Girls Go To Hell, Boston housewife Meg (the inimitable Gigi Darlene) flees to the big city after killing her rapist, only to find that NYC is another kind of hell. In high-contrast black & white, Bad Girls portrays a nightmarish cycle of violence and retribution through dizzying camerawork and disembodied voice-overs. Lacy lingerie, noir-lit bedsits, and a scuzzy New York skyline bring to life this young woman’s flight from fate in the big bad city. Experience Wishman's unique, empathetic, and truly strange vision on her most famous film's 60th anniversary!
SIMILAR: A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Ms .45 (1981), Repulsion (1965), A Woman's Torment (1977)
CW: This film contains graphic depictions of sexual violence.
"No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman made movies." - The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)
"New York as a purgatory, a personal hell of spiked heels, black-lace bodysuits, leering men, and murder by ashtray. Lost Highway as the roughie it wanted to be ..." - Elizabeth Purchell, queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the founder of Muscle Distribution
Co-Presented with Pink Flamingo Cinema
Country: United States
Year: 1965
Language: English