“Still working the gutter no-budget beat — a correlative to New York's no-wave punk music of the period — [Ferrara] brings a patina of slick visual sophistication to this rape/revenge thriller; more importantly, he allows a coherent, if extreme, feminist position to emerge. Nineteen-year-old Nastassja Kinski-lookalike Zoë Tamerlis plays Thana, a shy deaf-mute who works in New York's garment district. Sexually assaulted twice within hours, she kills her second assailant and chops him up in the bathtub (an episode that finds its way into Alan Warner's novel
Morvern Callar). Gaining confidence, she arms herself and woe to the chauvinist who crosses her path. It's a provocative, disreputable movie, well worth seeing.” – Daniel Baldwin,
Forbes
“With Grand Guignol relish, Ferrara depicts a city in the throes of a Wild West lawlessness that invites vigilante action.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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