SAVAGE STREETS - SPECIAL EDITION [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1984
• Genre: Action, Crime
• Plot: The performances rule, the direction is masterful, and for all the other moments in between, there’s an equal dose of cheesy music, bad hair, outlandish costumes and a ton of vulgar one liners. That’s not even including the cat and mouse finale that any slasher would be proudly claim. Savage Streets is the eighties revenge movie at its finest, cutting through the bleak brutality of Bronson and the monosyllabic monotony of Eastwood and finding a trashy oasis in the heart of exploitation. There’s nothing clean about these streets, but scattered around is great, great trash.; ; Now this is how you make a rape revenge flick! Savage Streets is a surprisingly skillful effort, with masterful direction of release and restraint by Danny Steinmann, and great performances around the board with Linnea Quigley the silent standout. And make no mistake, whether you’re paraphrasing Linda Blair or John Vernon, you’ll be quoting this one for years. The image quality is stellar, clean and vibrant, and the audio is clean and clear. The supplements cover over five hours of information, and it’s all filled with cult names and high energy. Those new to the film, you have to check it out. For those who own it on tape, I hope your old VHS tapes are double jointed, because they can kiss their asses goodbye. This is definitive.; ; Savage Streets has been cleaned up nicely for its twenty fourth birthday, looking very colorful in 1.85 anamorphic widescreen. The night scenes are filled with those neon hues that were everywhere in eighties street flicks from Escape From New York to The Terminator, and they come through very vivid here. Blacks are very solid and there’s a nice amount of detail, from the coarse wood on the gym bleachers to the scar on Heather’s face that was otherwise unnoticeable on VHS. Aside from the opening opticals, which always lend themselves to inherent dust and specs, the film is very clean with hardly any blemishes. About the only complaint is that it’s interlaced... you never know what you’re going to get with BCI, I guess. Still, a beautiful restoration.
• Cast: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Robert Dryer, Johnny Venocur, Sal Landi, Scott Mayer, Debra Blee, Lisa Freeman, Marcia Karr, Luisa Leschin, Linnea Quigley, Ina Romeo, Jill Jaxx, Mitch David Carter, Richard DeHaven, Bob DeSimone, Susan Dean, Joy Hyler, Brian Frishman, Catherine McGoohan, Sean O'Grady, Rebecca Perle, Paula Shaw, Kristi Somers, Troy Tompkins, Perla Walter, Judy Walton, Carole Ita White, Louis Zito, Helen Kelly, Suzee Slater
• Director: Danny Steinmann, Tom DeSimone
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Motion Picture Marketing, Savage Streets Productions, BCI
• Media Format: Movie