Switchblade Sisters
Switchblade Sisters is a 1975 film from the USA, directed by Jack Hill, running 91 minutes. reelscum files it under vigilante.
- Year
- 1975 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Jack Hill
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- Playgirl Gang · The Jezebels · Maggie's Stiletto Sisters · The Switchblade Sisters
Defined in the glossary: Vigilante
Jack Hill doing Othello with teenage gangs. Much smarter than it needs to be.
Jack Hill does Othello with a teenage girl gang, and it is far smarter than it needed to be. The Dagger Debs navigate loyalty, betrayal and a power struggle as a new girl upends their hierarchy, and Hill gives the melodrama real Shakespearean shape under the exploitation surface.
Tarantino loved it enough to re-release it through his own distribution label, and Robbie Lee and Joanne Nail commit fully to the heightened emotions. It takes its young women seriously as characters, which most of the genre did not.
Trash with genuine tragic architecture underneath.
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