Jun 11, 2023
Lady Street Fighter (1980)
"Go back home, Linda. Take my advice: don't try to get to the bottom of this. Or you'll be killed. Get it?"
"What a kook."
#lady street fighter#street fightin' cinema#1980#american cinema#exploitation film#renee harmon#james bryan#jody mcrea#trace carradine#liz renay#tony romano#bob morris#steve sexton#stephen machey#elisa m. kipp#gil grace#mark glover#mio shy astarr#lalania castinni#aww yeeeh more street fightin' goodness.. but hold on‚ where's Sonny Chiba? or Etsuko Shihomi? come to think of it this doesn't even look#like Japan... yes it's time for a trash cinema ripoff from the US of A! whether this was ever intended as any kind of cash in on the Street#Fighter franchises or if the title was simply pulled from a hat i couldn't tell you. this is real indie exploitation rubbish‚ from the man#who made Don't Go in the Woods (released the following year)‚ quite genuinely one of the worst slasher films ever made‚ and German born#star writer and producer Harmon‚ who plays a high kicking karate badass smuggler and has multiple shower scenes (as an aside‚ Harmon was#50 or so when she made this‚ so genuinely props to her on some fearless choices made in this production‚ good for her dot JPEG)#the plot is barely comprehensible but involves multiple assassins and double and triple crosses. it's dumb as rocks and twice as cheap but#i have to admit it has... something. a certain endearing quality‚ a kind of amateur filmmaking charm. fx are pretty much non existent (a#guy gets shot point blank with a shotgun at one point and just falls over yelping without a spot of blood) and the soundtrack is largely a#terrible muzak cover of Morricone's score for The Good the Bad and the Ugly (almost certainly done without permission)#but this is DIY cinema people‚ you can't expect it to be GOOD. can you? asking bc there's a sequel and I'm scared to watch it