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"Bad Girls Go to Hell" is an American 1965 sexploitation film, written, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Gigi Darlene, George La Rocque, Barnard L. Sackett, Harold Key and Darlene Bennett.

This film marked the end of Wishman's lighthearted nudist camp series and "nudie-cutie" comedies (such as Nude on the Moon) and a shift toward serious stories dealing with sex and violence. The new wave of harder-edged sexploitation and violent "roughie" films had already arrived a year earlier with Russ Meyer's Lorna, Michael Findlay's Body of a Female, and Joseph P. Mawra's Olga's House of Shame and its sequels.

Many trademarks of grindhouse film-making are present. Post-dubbed dialog, grainy and shaky camera-work, and an incredibly sleazy cool-jazz / go-go score. Hell, only "Last House on Dead End Street" and "Blast of Silence" are better when it comes to this film-making style. Darlene is fantastic, but the rest of the acting is uneven. However, that only adds to the fever dream atmosphere of the film. Doris Wishman is often viewed as being an incompetent director, and most of her works certainly suggest this. However, she shows some amount of skill here. Kudos to Something Weird Video for bringing this forgotten gem to the masses.

This was also released on DVD as part of a large box set of vintage exploitation films called Girls Gone Bad.

PLOT

Meg (Darlene) is a housewife in either Boston or Chicago, who, after making love with her husband (Sackett), takes a shower and dresses. When putting out some rubbish, she is assaulted and raped by a janitor (Key). The janitor blackmails Meg into coming into his apartment, wherein he again attempts to rape her. She kills him with a bowl. Fearing discovery, Meg packs her bags and travels to New York by bus. When befriended by a man in Central Park, she changes her name to Ellen Green, and claims she is from Chicago. The man offers her a room in his apartment, but after drinking heavily, he beats Meg/Ellen with a belt.

Moving on, she notices a newspaper headline stating: “Police seek blonde suspect in Boston murder!” Ellen rooms with Della (Bennett), a lesbian, and claims she is an acrobatic dancer, standing on her head in her bra and panties to prove it. After sleeping with Della, Ellen moves on again, stating that, because Della loves her, she has to leave. Ellen rents a room for 20 dollars a week at a couple's house, but is attacked and raped by the landlady's husband (La Rocque). She flees that scene and becomes a companion for an elderly woman but then discovers the woman's son is a detective working on the Boston murder case. Just as she is found out, Meg wakes up. It has all been a nightmare. As her husband leaves for work, Meg goes about her daily chores, but yet again she is attacked by the janitor in the stairwell.

Included are clips from NIGHTS OF LOVE IN LESBOS

TRACK LIST -

ORGASM - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL - Radio Spot
THE SILENCER - Patti Seymore
BLONDE BOMBSHELL - Enoch Light
NIGHTS OF LOVE IN LESBOS - Erotica Series #5
VAGINA - unknown
DO IT AGAIN - April Stevens
SAUVAGES ET CANDIDES - Les Terribles
LITTLE CHICKIE - Jim Kelly
NIGHTS OF LOVE IN LESBOS
HOT KISS - Juliette Lewis & The Licks
MACHINE GUN - The Riptides
FUCK ME FOREVER - Connie Lingus
WINSTON CIGARETTES COMMERCIAL - Radio Spot
CIGARETTE - The Visions
FISHNETS & CIGARETTES - New York Dolls
MEMPHIS PHONE SEX
FEVER - Elvis Presley
NIGHTS OF LOVE IN LESBOS
RED EYED RATS - Danny Davis & His Orchestra
EVER FALLEN IN LOVE - Nouvelle Vague
ROLLERCOASTER BLUES - Diana Dors
NIGHTS OF LOVE IN LESBOS
TURQUOISE - Earl Warren & Milt Buckner
STREET SCENE '58 - Lou Busch & His Orchestra
NIGHT TRAIN - Alvino Rey
DADDY - Julie London
ANATOMY OF MURDER - Anatomy of Murder (OST)
GET OFF THE ROAD - R. Lewis Band

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