Karen Austin stars as a cop who is raped in her own home by
a gang of thugs. After her attackers get
off scot free, she receives an outpouring of mail from rape survivors. She decides to form a club with her doctor
and invites the women into her home to talk about their experiences. Before long, they decide to stop talking and
do something about it. Together, they go
out at night targeting, drugging, and castrating known rapists.
The Ladies Club is a solid exploitation picture that fuses revenge fantasy with
social commentary. It’s not always
successful on either score, but you have to give it points for trying. Things get off to a fine start though and the
scenes of the women picking up rapists in bars and dropping them off to the
doctor for low-rent castrations are often quite funny. Despite that, it’s not nearly as nasty or as
exploitative as it could have been. In
fact, given the subject matter, it’s ultimately kind of toothless. With a few edits here and there, it could’ve
easily played on Lifetime. The ending is
a bit pat too.
The supporting cast is solid. Diana Scarwid does a fine job as one of the
ladies and Arliss Howard is pretty good as her concerned husband. It’s Nicholas Worth who is the most memorable
as a scumbag rapist who justly gets what’s coming to him.
AKA: The
Violated. AKA: The Sisterhood.
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