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Bad Girls Go to Hell
Bad Girls Go to Hell
	Promotional release poster
Directed by	Doris Wishman
Written by	Doris Wishman (as Dawn Whitman)
Produced by	Doris Wishman
Starring	Gigi Darlene; George La Rocque; Sam Stewart
Cinematography	C. Davis Smith
Edited by	Ali Bendi
Distributed by	Juri Productions Inc.; Sam Lake Enterprises
Release date	1965;
Running time	65 minutes (worldwide release); 71 minutes (US)
Country	United States
Language	English

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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.

References

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

External links

Reviews

[Bad_Girls_Go_to_Hell-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.

[IMDb-3] "Apprehensive Films [us]". IMDb. Retrieved 20 July 2010.

[Bad_Girls_Go_To_Hell_DVD-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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-'''''Bad Girls Go to Hell''''' is an [[United States|American]] 1965 [[sexploitation]] film, written, produced and directed by [[Doris Wishman]]. The film stars Gigi Darlene, George La Rocque, Barnard L. Sackett, Harold Key and Darlene Bennett.
+'''''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."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Surridge |first=Matthew |date=2021-07-21 |title=Bad Girls Go to Hell is Fascinating Sexploitation |url=https://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/bad-girls-go-to-hell-is-fascinating-sexploitation |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=Splice Today |language=en}}</ref>
-This film marked the end of Wishman's lighthearted nudist camp series and "[[Nudity in film|nudie-cutie]]" comedies (such as ''[[Nude on the Moon]]'') and a shift toward serious stories dealing with sex and violence.  The new wave of harder-edged sexploitation and violent "roughie" films had already arrived a year earlier with [[David F. Friedman]] and [[Herschell Gordon Lewis]]' ''[[Scum of the Earth!]]'' (1963), [[Russ Meyer]]'s ''[[Lorna (film)|Lorna]]'' (1964), [[Michael Findlay]]'s ''Body of a Female'', and Joseph P. Mawra's ''Olga's House of Shame'' and its sequels.
-This was also released on DVD as part of a large box set of vintage exploitation films called [[Girls Gone Bad]].
 ==Plot==
-Meg (Darlene) is a housewife in [[Boston]], who, after making love with her husband (Sackett), takes a shower and dresses. When putting out some rubbish, she is [[Sexual assault|assaulted]] by a [[janitor]] (Key). The janitor [[blackmail]]s Meg into coming into his apartment, wherein he again attempts to [[rape]] her. She kills him with a bowl. Fearing discovery, Meg packs her bags and travels to [[New York City|New York]] by bus. When befriended by a man in [[Central Park]], she changes her name to Ellen Green, and claims she is from [[Chicago]]. The man offers her a room in his apartment, but after drinking heavily, he beats Meg/Ellen with a belt.
+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.
-Moving on, she notices a newspaper headline stating: “Police seek blonde suspect in Boston murder!” Ellen rooms with Della (Bennett), a [[lesbian]], and claims she is an [[Acrobatics|acrobatic dancer]], standing on her head in her bra and panties to prove it. After sleeping with Della, Ellen moves on again, stating that, because Della loves her, she has to leave. Ellen rents a room for 20 dollars a week at a couple's house, but is attacked and raped by the landlady's husband (La Rocque). She flees that scene and becomes a companion for an elderly woman but then discovers the woman's son is a [[detective]] working on the Boston murder case. Just as she is found out, Meg wakes up. It has all been a [[nightmare]]. As her husband leaves for work, Meg goes about her daily chores, but yet again she is attacked by the janitor in the [[stairwell]].
+The film is structured around a long [[dream sequence]] and features a [[surprise ending]].
 ==Cast==
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 * Barnard L. Sackett (as Bernard L. Sankett) as Tom
 * Darlene Bennett as Tracy / Della
-* Marlene Starr as the Wife who rents Meg the room
+* Marlene Starr as the Wife who rents Meg the room (and the actress who appears on the cover)
-* Harold Key as the Janitor
+* Harold Key as the custodian
+== Home media ==
+In 2008, [[Apprehensive Films]] released ''Bad Girls Go to Hell'' on [[DVD]].<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0212878/ |title=Apprehensive Films [us] |author= |date= |publisher=IMDb |access-date=20 July 2010}}</ref><ref name="Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD">{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrippledmasters.com/badgirlsgotohelldvd.html |title=Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD |author= |date= |publisher=The GrindHouse |access-date=20 July 2010}}</ref>
+The film was included in the Blu-Ray collection "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years" <ref>{{cite web | url=https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-films-of-doris-wishman-the-moonlight-years-agfa-something-weird?variant=40317636280362 | title=The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years }}</ref> from AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) and Something Weird Video, released in September 2022.
-== DVD Release ==
+==See also==
+* [[List of American films of 1965]]
-In 2008,<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/company/co0212878/ |title=Apprehensive Films [us] |author= |date= |work= |publisher=IMDb |accessdate=20 July 2010}}</ref> [[Apprehensive Films]] released ''Bad Girls Go to Hell'' onto DVD.<ref name="Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD">{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrippledmasters.com/badgirlsgotohelldvd.html |title=Bad Girls Go To Hell DVD |author= |date= |work= |publisher=The GrindHouse |accessdate=20 July 2010}}</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 *{{IMDb title|id=0058933|title=Bad Girls Go to Hell}}
-* {{Amg movie|3728|Bad Girls Go to Hell}}
+*{{AllMovie title|3728|Bad Girls Go to Hell}}
-* {{YouTube|r1vMA3k7_M8|Trailer}}
+*{{YouTube|r1vMA3k7_M8|Trailer}}
+*[https://www.criterionchannel.com/bad-girls-go-to-hell/videos/bad-girls-go-to-hell] at [[The Criterion Collection]]
 '''Reviews'''
 *[http://www.forbisthemighty.com/pages/bad_girls.htm Acid Radio - review]
-*[http://www.cultflicks.net/drama/bad-girls-go-to-hell.html Cultflicks - review and triva]
+*[http://www.cultflicks.net/drama/bad-girls-go-to-hell.html Cultflicks - review and trivia]
 *[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=515365 Turner Classic Movies - review]
+*[http://brightlightsfilm.com/frame-analysis-title-sequence-doris-wishmans-bad-girls-go-hell-1965/ Bright Lights Film Journal - Analysis of title sequence]
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