''Bad Girls Go to Hell'' is a 1965 American
sexploitation
A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, Low-budget film, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition o ...
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."
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
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Gigi Darlene as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green
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George La Rocque as the Husband who rapes Meg
* Sam Stewart as Ed Bains
* Gertrude Cross (as Sandee Norman) as Mrs. Thorne
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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
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.
The film was included in the Blu-Ray collection "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years"
from AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) and Something Weird Video, released in September 2022.
See also
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List of American films of 1965
References
External links
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The Criterion Collection
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Reviews
Acid Radio - review*
Turner Classic Movies - reviewBright Lights Film Journal - Analysis of title sequence
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bad Girls Go To Hell
1965 films
American LGBTQ-related films
American black-and-white films
1960s English-language films
1960s exploitation films
Films directed by Doris Wishman
Lesbian-related films
Films set in Boston
Films set in New York City
Films about dreams
1965 LGBTQ-related films
1960s American films