10 Violent Women

Starring:Melodie Bell, Juanita Morgan Copeland, Lynn Culver, Jane Farnsworth, Claire Gable, Sally Alice Gamble, Anne Gaybis, Sherry Hardin, Peggy Hayes (III), Paula Ian, Sonja Knowlton, Kelly Lancaster, Dixie Lauren, Eileen Lee, Georgia Morgan, Leigh Reynolds, Sherri Vernon, Julie Wakefield, Christina de Gattani
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

Brutal female fury breaks loose in this blistering saga of professional women gone bad! Ten beautiful working girls decide they've had enough of the rat race and find a quick way to solve their problems: robbery. The criminal she-pack turns to jewelry heists (with water pistols!) to make ends meet; unfortunately, their biggest score lands the girls in prison after a bloody gunfight. Life behind bars offers only two choices for survival: submit to the degrading sexual demands of the female warden and her sadistic guards, or bust out! Audio Commentary by director Ted V. Mikels; Trailer for this and other Mikels films; Filmography

Customer Reviews:

Death by High Heel.......2007-04-01

Ted Mikels, director of a long list of cult classics, including "The Doll Squad" also directed, wrote, and starred in the film "10 Violent Women"--a tale that follows the exploits of a group of women who try working for a honest living but then rapidly turn to a life of crime.

The film begins with the 10 women (I could only actually count 8) working in a mine with a male boss. The women turn on him after his careless use of dynamite, and this female revolt is the first step taken in their criminal life. From the mine, there's a leap to a robbery at a jewelry shop, and during the robbery, the women steals a priceless scarab ring that belongs to a wealthy sheik. This sets the sheik on the trail of the all-female gang, but in the meantime, the women try to convert their loot to cold cash using the services of Leo the Fence (Ted Mikels).

For anyone who loves camp or who can appreciate a cult classic, "10 Violent Women" has a lot to offer for the first third of the film, but then goes downhill from there. The film is basically a prison exploitation tale, but the prison scenes are relatively tame (and often much too badly lit) for anyone to get excited over the action behind bars. And that's really too bad, because the film, badly acted with a plot that weakens as it progresses, steadily goes downhill after Mikels leaves the set in a rather ignoble--but at least wildly original--fashion.

The very best thing the film has going for it, is the idea that men have all the power, and the only way these women are going to get a chunk of the action is to take it ... from the men. The men are the power figures here--the mining boss, the police, the security guard, the jewelry shop owner, the fence and the sheik--all men--and all easy to outwit, beat-up, tie up, etc etc. The strongest, hairiest men turn to blubbery jelly ("Let's put him out of his misery") once they fall into the hands of these "violent women." But the problem with this idea--the subversion of the male power structure by violent women--is that it falls apart once the women end up in an all-female prison, and that's when the action becomes tedious and dull. I was hoping for another "Switchblade Sisters" but unfortunately, "10 Violent Women" did not maintain its early camp promise. But there are scenes of girl fights, water pistol duels and the world's worst flamenco dancer, so depending on your interest in such things, you may or may not want to see "10 Violent Women." DVD extras include film commentary from Ted Mikels, a trailer reel and filmography--displacedhuman

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10 Violent Women
Starring: Sally Gamble , Anne Gaybis , Sherry Hardin , Dixie Lauren , and Sherri Vernon
Director: Ted V. Mikels
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000MV9O18
Release Date: 2007-03-27

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