''They Call Me Macho Woman!'' is a 1989

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written and directed by Patrick G. Donahue and distributed by

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. The film belongs to the girls with guns subgenre.

Plot

The story follows city woman Susan Morris (Debra Sweaney), who decides to escape her banal urban life and goes looking for a house in the country. Unfortunately, she's taken prisoner by a group of savage drug smugglers, headed by the ruthless Mongo (

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). After escaping their clutches, Susan is forced to transform herself into a fearsome warrior and exact her revenge on Mongo and his evil henchmen.

Tagline

''"''Born to shop...she learned to kill!''"''

Production

A lot of the original music in this film became trademark Troma songs and were used in a variety of films, including the Toxic Avenger sequels.

Reception

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'' sees in the film a "Troma thriller (a whole genre of humorously sub-"B" movies)". The website ''Girls With Guns'' said of the film: "Yes, it’s dumb. Yes, it’s cheap. Yes, it makes little or no sense, in particular her sudden transformation from plucky but largely ineffective heroine ho can’t even stab someone in a way that causes them more than moderate discomfortinto a warrior woman, capable of embedding a shiny axe in your head from 15 paces. But, you know what? It’s never boring (...)"

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* * 1989 films American independent films Troma Entertainment films 1989 action films 1989 independent films American action films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films English-language action films English-language independent films {{1980s-US-film-stub