Ms .45 (1981)
Directed by Abel Ferrara
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
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What critics compared Ms .45 to
If you watch the trailer for Promising Young Woman , the feature directorial debut of The Crown actress and Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, you’ll probably think you’re about to see a glossy proto-feminist tale of revenge, something akin to a 21st-century Ms .45 or a post-Weinstein Veronica Mars .
I’m thinking, specifically, of Abel Ferrara’s righteously furious Ms .45…
Any vicarious thrill from seeing these films’ antagonists hunted down by avenging angels (typically, but not always, the victims of rape) in work as varied in style and quality as The Last House on the Left (1972), Ms .45…