Savage Streets (1984) Revenge, eighties style.

Right out of the sea of low budget exploitation movies from the 80's that have a sexual assault and a revenge as part of their plot comes the cheesy and outrageous movie titled Savage Streets, starring Linda Blair (who had a few of these roles in sleazy movies at the time). 

The film is about Brenda, a rebel and bratty high school student who spends the nights messing around the streets with her friends, one day she takes her deaf mute sister named Heather, played by Linnea Quigley (Nightmare Sisters, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama), for a fun night downtown but they piss off a gang of male delinquents. Soon, one of the thugs befriends the little sibling and takes her to be raped and beaten by the rest of the gang. This makes the tough Brenda swear revenge on the group of criminals, murdering them one by one.

Of course this little exploitation flick is kind of rough and silly at points, but aside from being dull at parts it goes by rather fast and keeps you interested in the crazy scenes it shows like shower catfights and, of course, the last 30 minutes of Linda Blair putting on her black outfit, grabbing her crossbow and kicking the bad guy's asses. 

I will say however, that there's a very forced climax when Linda goes after the strongest of the gang members. She is hit in the head by the attacker right when she was about to finish him off, so she falls over and the bad guy frees himself and beats her up, she stabs him and runs away. Linda hides in a store and the thug follows her, she then struggles to find him and the baddie even sneaks up on her (quite a stupid moment). It felt forced because you know they were trying to go for a challenging final battle (with a slasher vibe to it) but in order to do that they softened the character and dumbed her down, which hurts the idea of making their tough female character struggle and fight with smarts rather than brute force because it comes off as very badly implemented, it's at the expense of the characterization and logic.

Other than that, it's an enjoyable movie for what it is. You can tell the makers tried to add more weight to the typical rape and revenge plot and they kind of did it decently while still delivering the fun moments of carnage and 80's playfulness. Average acting but likable characters and good amounts of action at the last stretch.