The Switchblade Sisters

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Stephen C @bob25009 Jul 13, 2025 Funny pride movie in 1 hour and 31 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $41,100.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more

Nick O @Nicki1985 Jul 9, 2025 Jack Hill will always be the king of exploitation cinema and this badass teenage gang flick has enough raw violence and juvenile delinquency to help forever seal his place in movie history. See more

Steve D @RT35616104 Mar 17, 2023 Some good ideas but it never comes together. See more

brad p @Bradster69 Feb 22, 2023 Switchblade Sisters is exploitation sleaze with likable characters and a strong message of female empowerment. See more

Ola G @Ollie1972 Jan 9, 2022 Maggie (Joanne Nail) transfers from across town to a new high school that is essentially run by the Silver Daggers, a rough, hierarchical male gang, and their female counterparts, the Dagger Debs. A confrontation between the Dagger Debs and a repo man gets all the female members — and Maggie — arrested. Because Maggie is new, a lecherous lesbian warden at the juvenile detention center (Kate Murtagh) threatens to physically abuse her. Maggie fights back and eventually the Dagger Debs join her. Subsequently, Dagger Deb leader Lace (Robbie Lee) decides she likes Maggie and entrusts her with running errands while she serves a brief sentence in juvenile hall. One such errand – delivering a love note to Lace's boyfriend, Dominic (Asher Brauner) – ends in Dominic following Maggie home and raping her. Maggie's close friendship with Lace upsets Lace's closest friend, Patch, who lost one of her eyes in service to the gang and now sees herself as second-in-command. Lace is released from juvenile hall and reunites with Dominic, telling him that she discovered she was pregnant during her incarceration. Dominic disavows fatherhood and refuses to help Lace care for the child, encouraging her to undergo an abortion. Meanwhile, the Silver Daggers have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs (Chase Newhart), at the high school... Jack Hill´s exploitation action film from 1975 is a gem I must say with a strong female empowering storyline, despite them doing all sorts of criminal gang activities and also how the female characters are treated by men and also amongst themselves. The movie was not a success at the box office, but garnered a cult following later on. Most of its current popularity can be attributed to film director Quentin Tarantino, who named the picture a personal favorite and re-released it in 1996 under his Rolling Thunder Pictures label. The film's tagline is "So Easy to Kill, So Hard to Love." It´s a true B-movie with wobbly acting, wobbly dialogue, wobbly scenes and action sequences with clearly stuntmen in wigs :). But, that´s ok. It doesn´t take away the entertainment from the film. I love Joanne Nail as Maggie. She rocks. Trivia: While filming, the titles Playgirl Gang and The Jezebels were considered. Hill states in the DVD commentary that he figures not enough people would know what a Jezebel was, however. Thus, Switchblade Sisters was chosen, even though the phrase is not spoken in the movie. See more

Oct 3, 2021 Loads of fun in this camp classic. It may just be Jack Hill's best. It's sleazy exploitation that actually goes for female empowerment over the typical cheap thrills of this genre. See more

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