A Gun for Jennifer

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A Gun for Jennifer
A Gun for Jennifer Poster.jpg
Directed byTodd Morris
Written byTodd Morris
Deborah Twiss
Produced byDeborah Twiss
StarringDeborah Twiss
CinematographyJoe di Gennaro
Eliot Rockett
David Tumblety
Edited byTodd Morris
Rachel Warden
Music byJF Coleman
Production
company
Independent Partners
Distributed byAction Gitanes
Conspiracy Films Inc.
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Gun for Jennifer is a 1997 rape and revenge film thriller film directed by Todd Morris and starring Deborah Twiss. It follows a feminist vigilante group who castrate suspected rapists and batterers while a female police officer attempts to stop them. [1] It is shot in a retro grindhouse style and premiered at the Fantasia Festival in July 1997, [2] where it was sold-out an hour before screening and received a standing ovation. The film has not left the festival circuit; Fangoria reported that it had been picked up for distribution by Mondo Macabro, but the release never came to fruition. [3]

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The movie was covered in the documentary In the Belly of the Beast, [4] which detailed Morris and Twiss's discovery that their financier (whom Twiss had met while working as an exotic dancer) [5] had been embezzling money. [6] [7]

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