AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

preppy-3 Zoe Lund (who was only 17 at the time of filming) plays Thana a mute woman who works in the garment district of NYC. When going home one day she's viciously raped. She stumbles home and finds a burglar in her apartment. He also rapes her but she kills him. She then gets his gun and goes out at night and kills all the men who try to attack her or other women. Then she starts killing men who have done nothing wrong.Dark and depressing film. Filmed in the early 1980s on location in NYC it presents a very negative view of the city and its citizens. All the men are portrayed as scum that deserve what they get. Surprisingly this was written and directed by two men! It's tough stuff but you have to applaud a movie that doesn't hold back. Lund is terrific in her role (hard to believe she was only 17) and it's very well-directed by Abel Ferrara. LOVE how he stages the scene when Thana is stalked by four men in Central Park. There's actually not a lot of violence in the movie but what's there is pretty strong. This was not a big hit when it came out. It was too dark for most viewers. However it did well on the midnight movie circuit. It basically just disappeared (cable TV stations won't touch it) until it was reissued in a beautiful transfer on DVD a few years back. Dark and gritty but important.

trashgang The discussion between so many horror geeks is which revenge flick started it all, the notorious I Spit On Your Grave (1978) or this less known and harder to find Ms 45 made by Abel Ferrara who just came out the cult classic Driller Killer (1979). What makes Ms 45 a must see are two reasons, see how New York looked back then, a filthy place. Secondly, the main lead, Zoe Lund, died at the age of 37 due a drug-related heart failure. Even as this is a revenge flick I'm more into I Spit On Your Grave. That one has more brutality and the rape scene's are more explicit. Still, Ms 45 made in the slasher era is low on gore but it's a slow builder. The mute Thana (Lund) is raped twice on one day. I've seen the full uncut version and the rape scene's for that era are low on everything. But this flick is cult due the revenge done by Thana. From killing one man by shooting him in the head to transform herself into a sexy looking killer. It's a typical Ferrara flick, love or hate it. I'm always left with mixed emotions. Just look at the last scene, slo-mo for over 10 minutes and a weird score. It's not that bad but to say it's a horror I can't say therefor there isn't any gore to catch. But for so many it's a cult flick, for me a mediocre revenge flick.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

SnoopyStyle Thana (Zoë Lund) is a shy mute dressmaker. She is raped at gunpoint on the way home. When she gets home, she is surprised by a robber who also rapes her at gunpoint. She manages to kill the home invader and cut up his body. She turns into a vigilante with the robber's gun. She suffers from the trauma and kills anybody who scares her. She dresses up to lure attackers. Then at the company Halloween party, her boss's advances end in horrors.This is an uneven but compelling violent indie. Some of it can be taken as camp but it works even as a serious movie. It's in the long tradition of using shock and awe to sell a no budget movie. It's interesting that Lund is playing a mute. It probably turned a disadvantage into a compelling advantage. The two rapes can seem like overkill but it actually makes sense to force this shy girl with something outrageous.

Adam Peters (63%) One of the more bold and effective exploitation movies to come from the 1980's. When mute woman appears in a movie such as this you pretty much already know what is going to happen to her. The rape scenes themselves are as shocking as they rightly should be, but are not overly explicit, or remotely glamorised, which marks this movie apart from the more muddled morality of other films of this type (Savage streets). The very sadly late Zoe Tamerlis is fantastic in a hugely difficult role involving not one spoken line throughout the entire movie. As films of this type go, this is maybe the best of the lot. A gritty slice of 80's vigilante cinema.