Ten Violent Women

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Ten Violent Women is a 1982 American film directed by Ted V. Mikels.

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It led to a sequel in 2015. [1]

Production

The film was made in 1979. Mikels said:

It had been a couple of years since I had made a film, ‘Well let’s put one together, even if we can’t’ James Gordon White, a good writer, had written a thing called The Violent Sex, it was only a prison thing. I decided to make a story that has some action, and there’s a reason for the girls to go to prison. This thing about the girls using water pistols to rob jewelry stores and it led to a bit of difficulty there. And I took a big part. They said if everybody is going to take a part then I had to take one too. [2]

Mikels made the film for only $145,000. He shot on existing locations including a disused Los Angeles, and used some of his polygamous "wives" at the time as eight of the ten violent women. [3]

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References

  1. Ten Violent Women Part Two at IMDb
  2. Ashmun, Dale (2000). "Ted V Mikels". Psychotronic Video. No. 32. p. 44.
  3. Smith, Richard Harland. "Ten Violent Women". Turner Classic Movies.