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VHS : Ms 45 (Ws)In association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0014381913637 Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Release Date: April 25, 2000 Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: April 24, 1981 Sales Rank: 31720 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: A young, voluptuous New York City woman is intensely shy and unable to speak. Her naive beauty provokes the aggressive attention of all men. One evening while walking home, she is assaulted at gunpoint and brutally raped by two thugs. Her enormous fears, which had driven her inward before, now push her to an outward course of action. After killing one of her assailants, she cuts his body into pieces and disposes of the parts, one by one, at various spots in Manhattan. She carries her dead assailant's .45 automatic, initially for protection, but ultimately for unrelenting revenge against all males. Men, keep your legs crossed for this frightfully erotic thriller that delves into the life of a nubile young maiden out for blood. Amazon.com: Abel Ferrara, the bad boy of American independent filmmaking, made his first splash with this violent twist on Death Wish and the revenge-vigilante genre. Nastassja Kinski look-alike Zoë Tamerlis Lund stars as a beautiful mute seamstress in New York's garment district, a shrinking violet who is brutally raped and assaulted not once but twice in the same day. After dispatching the second predator in an adrenaline-driven rush of panic, she pockets his handgun and disposes of the body in small chunks. Tamerlis makes the most of her wordless role, her wide-eyed vulnerability hardening to a dead-eyed determination as she transforms from quivering victim to avenging dark angel, a one-woman vigilante force hunting pimps, perverts, sickos, and slimeballs and using herself as bait. Consider this Ferrara's Taxi Driver, a very different portrait of New York's mean streets. Though this shot-on-the-cheap production occasionally suffers from amateurish performances in supporting roles, Ferrara's impeccable eye for composition and bravura sense of editing create momentum that carries it through to its memorable Halloween party finale. Tamerlis is decked out in a nun's habit with a slash of lipstick across her face, a handgun tucked in a garter, and a contract out on the entire male sex. It's a deliriously effective exploitation thriller that undercuts every expectation of the genre. Ferrara makes a cameo as the first attacker. Tamerlis later cowrote and costarred in Ferrara's most notorious production, Bad Lieutenant. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating: - IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!MS.45 stars the VERY beautiful ZOE TAMERLIS (who looks like a young Brooke Shields BUT BETTER!) who plays a young,voluptuous New York city girl who is unfortunately raped while buying groceries in a ally way. After picking herself up and wiping the blood from her mouth she leaves for her apartment just to find a burglar their who decides that jewelry is not the only thing he wants! Yet again our heroine is raped but this time she is able to kill her attacker(YEAH!) She cuts his body into ... Read More Rating:  - A spiral into insanity.Though Abel Ferrara's 1981 vigilante flick 'Ms. 45' frequently gets the label of a "female Death Wish", it really is much more than that: it is, like 'The Driller Killer' before it, an elaborate tale about an individual's spiral into insanity with the pressures of life and the pain of, in this case, a dual attack of brutal sexual assaults. The film tells the tale of mute clothing line worker Thana (played brilliantly by the late Zoë Lund) who is a little bit of a misfit at her place ... Read More Rating: - "But the gun was put in a woman's hand..."When two rapists in seperate attacks on the same woman, on the same day, warn her to keep silent, the joke's on them. Thana is a mute, and couldn't scream if she wanted to. She soon finds her 'voice', however, when she fells the second attacker in her apartment and acquires his .45-caliber pistol. It's not long before you can't shut her up-- if you're a man. Thana is a femme fatale with a refreshingly direct approach. Zoe Lund was a remarkable beauty. To cite some other reviews here, ... Read More Rating: - It Will Never Happen AgainI am glad "Ms. 45" is back on the shelf, because for a long time it was hard to find, certainly up here in Canada. This film is superior to "Driller Killer" in every way except for the lead track. Nothing touches the live performance of Tony Coca Cola and the Roosters playing The Grand Street Stomp. It is quite obvious in "Ms. 45" that that is not the sound of a trumpet. Anyway, for those who don't dig this, you can't tell me you can diss it. This, his second film, is night and day between "Driller Killer". ... Read More Rating: - A Feminist Taxi DriverI saw Ms. 45 a few months ago and was completely blown away by it. I understand it's been edited, and I assume I saw a version that had been cut. But I can assure you that it's still worth seeing. Thana is a mute seamstress who is sexually assaulted not once, but twice, on her way home from work. When I read the description, I thought this sounded a bit overly dramatic and far-fetched. However, the way it plays out in the film is very believable, both in the way it is portrayed, and the way ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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