Bad Girls Go to Hell

Bad Girls Go to Hell
Promotional release poster
Directed byDoris Wishman
Written byDoris Wishman (as Dawn Whitman)
Produced byDoris Wishman
StarringGigi Darlene
George La Rocque
Sam Stewart
CinematographyC. Davis Smith
Edited byAli Bendi
Distributed byJuri Productions Inc.
Sam Lake Enterprises
Release date
  • 1965 (1965)
Running time
65 minutes (worldwide release)
71 minutes (US)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bad Girls Go to Hell is a 1965 American sexploitation film written, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Gigi Darlene, Sam Stewart, Barnard L. Sackett, and Darlene Bennett. The film contains soft-core sexual situations and is considered one of the director's first "roughies", "a trash-cinema genre that flourished briefly in the years before court cases legalized hardcore porn, and Wishman was one of the important figures in the form."[2]

Plot

Meg is a Boston housewife, who is sexually assaulted by a custodian at her apartment building. Killing him during the attack, she flees to New York City. She is then befriended by a series of people with whom she becomes emotionally and sexually involved, all the while trying to evade a narrowing police dragnet.

The film is structured around a long dream sequence and features a surprise ending.

Cast

  • Gigi Darlene as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green
  • George La Rocque as the Husband who rapes Meg
  • Sam Stewart as Ed Bains
  • Gertrude Cross (as Sandee Norman) as Mrs. Thorne
  • Alan Feinstein (as Alan Yorke) as Ted Kelton
  • Barnard L. Sackett (as Bernard L. Sankett) as Tom
  • Darlene Bennett as Tracy / Della
  • Marlene Starr as the Wife who rents Meg the room (and the actress who appears on the cover)
  • Harold Key as the custodian

Home media

In 2008, Apprehensive Films released Bad Girls Go to Hell on DVD.[3][4]

The film was included in the Blu-Ray collection "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years" [5] from AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) and Something Weird Video, released in September 2022.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
  2. ^ Surridge, Matthew (2021-07-21). "Bad Girls Go to Hell is Fascinating Sexploitation". Splice Today. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  3. ^ "Apprehensive Films [us]". IMDb. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  4. ^ "Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD". The GrindHouse. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  5. ^ "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years".

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