Savage Streets
1984, R, 93 min.
Directed by Danny Steinmann, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Linda Blair, John Vernon, Robert Drye, Linnea Quigley.

Linda Blair was nominated for a Razzie for her performance as a girl gangbanger in this Eighties exploitation flick. The rape scene is reportedly long and graphic, but Blair fights back armed with a crossbow. (For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series see austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html.)

This article appears in April 20 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.