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Ms .45
7.7
/10
2,008 Ratings

Synopsis

Mute garment-district worker Thana hits the streets to exact her revenge on the men of New York City after enduring two brutal sexual assaults. She dresses suggestively and roams the streets, clubs, and dark alleyways of no-wave downtown seeking to satisfy her bloodlust.

Our take

17-year-old Zoë Lund takes center stage as a traumatized victim turned vigilante in Abel Ferrara’s rape-revenge exploitation film. Like Scorsese’s Taxi Driver before it, this cult classic is a furiously subversive indictment of an especially nasty era for New York City.