Savage Streets
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Danny Steinmann |
| Produced by | John Strong |
| Written by | Danny Steinmann Norman Yonemoto |
| Starring |
Linda Blair Linnea Quigley Robert Dryer John Vernon |
| Music by |
John D'Andrea Michael Lloyd |
| Cinematography | Stephen L. Posey |
| Edited by | John A. O'Connor Bruce Stubblefield |
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Production
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Ginso Investment Corp.
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| Distributed by | Motion Picture Marketing |
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Release date
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Running time
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.2 million |
Savage Streets is a 1984 American vigilante action film starring Linda Blair. Directed by Danny Steinmann, the film premiered on October 5, 1984.
This is one of the few non-horror films that both Linda Blair and Linnea Quigley star in.
After nearly being run down in the street by a gang known as the Scars, Brenda (Linda Blair) and her deaf-mute younger sister Heather (Linnea Quigley) and their friends trash the car of the gang leader, Jake. Jake exacts his revenge by getting his cohorts to gang-rape Heather. A fight between Brenda and her friends and the Scars at a local nightclub results in Brenda's pregnant, soon-to-be-married friend Francine being murdered by the Scars, who throw her off a viaduct. When Brenda learns who is responsible for Heather's rape, and that Francine is dead and the Scars are responsible, Brenda arms herself and sets out to avenge them. Finding them at a nearby warehouse, Brenda impales one of the gang members, Fargo, with an arrow; kills another, Red, by snapping a bear trap shut upon his neck; and then begins to torture Jake with arrows shot into his thighs and a hunting knife as he hangs by his feet from a gate. However, he then manages to free himself and attacks her. The showdown ends in a nearby paint store; as a burglar alarm blares, Brenda douses Jake in paint and then sets him on fire with a cigarette lighter that she has previously had difficulty getting to produce a flame, just before the police arrive.
The movie ends with Brenda (who is presumably facing prosecution for the murders of Fargo, Red and Jake), Heather and their surviving friends visiting Francine's grave, and Brenda comments, "At least we set things right," to which her friend Stevie replies, "No, Brenda. You set things right."
Variety described the film as having "deliciously vulgar dialog and well-directed confrontation scenes."TV Guide awarded the film one star and said of star Linda Blair "This is Blair's best performance since THE EXORCIST (1973), but that's not saying much." Carol J. Clover in Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film found Linda Blair unconvincing in her role as a female avenger.
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