Bad Girls Go to Hell is a 1965 American sexploitation film written, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Gigi Darlene, Sam Stewart, Barnard L. Sackett, and Darlene Bennett.

Plot

Meg (Gigi Darlene) is a Boston housewife, who is sexually assaulted by a custodian at her apartment building. Killing him during the attack, she flees to New York City. She is then befriended by a series of people with whom she becomes emotionally and sexually involved, all the while trying to evade a narrowing police dragnet. The film is structured around a long dream sequence and features a surprise ending. It contains soft-core sexual situations.

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Cast

Gigi Darlene as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green

George La Rocque as the Husband who rapes Meg

Sam Stewart as Ed Bains

Gertrude Cross (as Sandee Norman) as Mrs. Thorne

Alan Feinstein (as Alan Yorke) as Ted Kelton

Barnard L. Sackett (as Bernard L. Sankett) as Tom

Darlene Bennett as Tracy / Della

Marlene Starr as the Wife who rents Meg the room (and the actress who appears on the cover) Harold Key as the custodian

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Home media

In 2008, Apprehensive Films released Bad Girls Go to Hell on DVD.

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The film was included in the Blu-Ray collection "The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years" from AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) and Something Weird Video, released in September 2022.

See also

List of American films of 1965

References

External links

at The Criterion Collection

Reviews

Acid Radio - review

Cultflicks - review and trivia

Turner Classic Movies - review

Bright Lights Film Journal - Analysis of title sequence

1965 films

American LGBT-related films

American black-and-white films

1960s English-language films

1960s exploitation films

Films directed by Doris Wishman

Lesbian-related films

Films set in Boston

Films set in New York City

Films about dreams

1965 LGBT-related films

1960s American films