Savage Streets - A top heavy, genre bender

Published: April 23, 2018, 10:27 p.m.

b'Somehow we\'ve managed to stay clear of Linda Blair, which is strange because she\'s very easy to bump into. Here she\'s showcasing the gals, while running a gang of gals, and find revenge (eventually) after taking an hour and fifteen minutes to be pushed over the edge.\\n\\nSomehow Savage Streets manages to be a mashup of about every 80\'s budget genre. It\'s a slasher, a sex-romp, a revenge jobber, and a roller-skating boogie in the vein of Grease. Yet it manages to miss being a Romeo & Juliet, a vigilante justice story and Dangerous Minds. It\'s pretty bizarre in how much territory it covers while failing to get to the plot for one hour.\\n

Somehow we\'ve managed to stay clear of Linda Blair, which is strange because she\'s very easy to bump into. Here she\'s showcasing the gals, while running a gang of gals, and find revenge (eventually) after taking an hour and fifteen minutes to be pushed over the edge.

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Somehow Savage Streets manages to be a mashup of about every 80\'s budget genre. It\'s a slasher, a sex-romp, a revenge jobber, and a roller-skating boogie in the vein of Grease. Yet it manages to miss being a Romeo & Juliet, a vigilante justice story and Dangerous Minds. It\'s pretty bizarre in how much territory it covers while failing to get to the plot for one hour.

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Boobs. Wow. Lots and lots. This high school that Linda Blair\'s Brenda attends must have some rigorous testing for enrollment. You must be:

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  1. Over 20 years old
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  3. Have double-ds
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  5. Huge hair
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  7. Enjoy fighting naked
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  9. Have little regard for the rules (that arguably don\'t exist)
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It takes quite a while to get going and once it does, boy howdy, but the front hour is a pretty solid riffer. We\'d say that it\'s good for any midnight movie and especially good for a group of lampooners. So not spectacular but still a solid "do" from us. 

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There is a disclaimer - there is a scene of rape that is especially difficult to get through, but fairly necessary to get to the plot.

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