Mankillers (1987)
5/10
Mankillers
11 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Shot back to back with Deadly Prey by director and writer David A. Prior, this was originally titled 12 Wild Women.

CIA agent Rachael McKenna (Lynda Aldon, The Wizard of Speed and Time) is hunting down a criminal who goes by John Mickland (William Zipp) who is into drugs, murder and white slavery. To get him, she goes to a prison and releases a dozen of the most dangerous women in there. So, you know, Hell Squad. Or The Dirty Dozen. There's a thin line between love and hate because McKenna and Mickland used to be in love before he left her for dead.

Why she thinks women would be better for her soldiers is never explained. But who cares? We get a training sequence with Edy Williams whipping these raw recruits into shape. The main girls are Maria Rosetti (Christine Lunde, Young Rebels, Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death), Terry Davis (Suzanne Tegmann, Terror In Beverly Hills), Roxanne Taylor (Marilyn Stafford), Vicki Thompson (Thyais Walsh), Christine Rollins (Bainbridge Scott, who is also in the similar Hell Squad and Prior's Death Chase) and Trish Daniels (Cyndi Domino). It just takes a day of boot camp - I mean, Williams is very motivating - and they're ready for war.

The end of this movie is one big battle and just about everyone dies. Including one gentleman who gets stabbed right in the dick. There are also grenades, so many guns that even the NRA may be like "Hey ladies, do we need so many weapons?" and Zipp taking ten full minutes to die.

I learned from this movie that all female prisoners are attractive and they all get to wear cutoffs in the big house. I think it's learnings like this that put me ahead of the average man on the street. Mankillers is the kind of movie I can't defend, the sort of film that's always on when my wife walks in, shakes her head and just looks at me like some kind of manchild. There's an endless fascination with women murdering horrible men with an arsenal of death spitting devices and try as I may to grow up and take my real world values into my movie watching mind, I can't. Shoot everyone. Stab everyone in the dick. Wear headbands. Make that hair high.
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