The greatest movie ever made..!

Best movie ever!

A lot of fun.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Brenda (Blair) is a tough, streetwise chick who loves nothing more than hanging out on the streets of Hollywood with her group of friends named The Satins (remember when friends used to do that?) - but her one soft spot is for her deaf/mute sister, Heather (Quigley). Trouble arises when a group of no-good street toughs called The Scars, who do nothing but annoy and harass everyone, cross paths with The Satins. Led by the sinister Jake (Dryer), he and his boys continually up the ante, until they go WAY too far, and Brenda, who was already on the edge and getting into catfights at school with the cheerleader Cindy (Perle), snaps and begins wearing black fingerless gloves. Suspended from school by Principal Underwood (Vernon), she is free to use her time to get her revenge against The Scars. Will she complete her mission? Find out today! This movie is so, so great. Imagine if Foxes (1980) was an exploitative revenge movie. The awesomeness of the 80's is cranked to 11, and the film seemingly makes no apologies for its unabashed, for lack of a better word, raunch. To the delight of viewers, political correctness is light years away, and everything from the dialogue on down has a wickedly entertaining power that is impossible to resist. Linda Blair has absolutely never been better - her level of sassiness is off the charts, and her exchanges with just about everybody give her some great lines - but her best on-screen partner is John Vernon, and their scenes together are priceless.The fashions not just the Satins, but everyone wears are mind-boggling, and the music is perfect, especially the songs by John Farnham. You thought the songs he did for Rad (1986) were great, just check these out. Someone needs to do a CD reissue stat. Whoever created the signs in the movie truly outdid themselves - "Doctors Hospital" and at the club MX there is a sign on the wall that simply reads "Rock and Roll". You truly cannot beat that. Outside of a record store there are posters for Kiss, Def Leppard and Motley Crue, and it wouldn't be a high school-set movie without a 42-year old student, this time it's Cindy's boyfriend Wes (Frishman). Or at least that's how it seems.We really have nothing negative to say about Savage Streets. If you love awesome things and fun times, you will love it. Not to mention 80's nostalgia. The movie truly shows why revenge movies are among our favorites. It delivers exactly what you want, and then some. If there are any haters out there, don't listen to them. Savage Streets is an out-and-out winner!

(23%) What should have been fun example of 80's trash cinema sadly leaves a bad taste in the mouth. All the elements were there, the great cheesy soundtrack, the sleazy plot, the cast/setting, all good. But the rape scene featured is so amazingly poorly judged beyond all moral reason that it pretty much ruins the whole movie. Grotesquely the scene in question is intercut back and forth with a borderline soft-core porn scene involving Linda Blair cat-fighting a completely naked girl in the showers. So what kind of response is the director trying to achieve here? To be honest I don't really want to know as it just feels like the man is more of a sleazy pervert than an actual film maker. If the movie overall was handled a little better it could have been a minor classic, but its sexulisation of abuse (intended or not) is really too morally backward - even for a mid-budget sleaze picture - to warrant praise from me.

This is definitely one of the better 80's white trash b movies out there. It also falls into the long running category of rape/revenge themed films, but this is not nearly as gory as many of them are. This is more a mix of 80's cheese, with a decent dose of nudity, sexuality, foul language, and fairly tame low budget violence. There is no question that this film all out glorifies revenge, at least when the crimes against are severe enough, "Made things right" is truly it's conclusion. Obviously, if you like 80's trash or sleazy revenge tales, this is a film for you. There is no doubt that this film was mostly aimed toward the dirty old men and horny young men audience, although I'm not saying that those are the only people who will enjoy it or did enjoy it necessarily. Overall as a film I'd say it's worth a look."Disco sucks/Punk is dead/Give me rock/Or give me head"6/10

A gang of drug-dealing scumbags, real despicable bastards, known as the "Scars", make the mistake of raping the innocent deaf mute sister of Brenda(Linda Blair)incurring her wrath once she discovers they were responsible. When gang leader Jake hurls her best friend Francine off a bridge, this fuels her rage even further escalating into a major climax of violent revenge.I think SAVAGE STREETS is an example of a film about high school run amok, in the vein of CLASS OF 1984, where the students have become unruly, hard to control, where the faculty attempting to teach them have lost their power. We witness teachers(..and especially the principal, played by a very disgruntled John Vernon)swear at their students in an effort to silence them, often still unable to get a grip on their kids. Linda Blair sheds her wholesome image(..Reagan she's not!)and really gets into her role as a strong-willed, "take no crap from anybody" leader of a group of gals known as The Satins, lighting up a cigarette in the principal's office(..or whenever she feels like it), ripping apart a rival student's shirt(..also engaging in a silly shower room catfight with Cindy, played by the voluptuous Rebecca Perle)during a fight in class, or telling a boy who wants a piece to f-off. Seeing Blair as a high schooler is a bit of a stretch in credibility, but when she "suits up", ready to make those cretin Scars bleed, it's certainly radical(..to use an 80's term). All that hair, wearing a scowl, ready to tear some vermin to pieces for harming her beloved sister, Blair delivers the goods and then some. Gotta love her.The Scars are a real piece of work. You couldn't develop a nastier, loathsome, truly repulsive brood than these vulgar heathens..I'm sure many will be in anticipation(..with bated breath) to see how Blair wreaks vengeance on them. Robert Dryer(..ferocious gang leader Jake, with a venomous smile, always antagonistic), Sal Landi(..Jake's muscle, a real thug who enjoys humiliating and tormenting females), and Scott Mayer(..as the unhinged Red, a real thrill-seeker who enjoys causing disturbance)embrace their roles as the troublesome Scars. Johnny Venocur has the role of Vince, the kid who made the unfortunate mistake of aligning himself with this pack of wolves, eventually squealing about their actions against Brenda's sister. Linnea Quigley is the adorable tragic victim of the Scars, who endures a really harsh rape, undeserved of her brutal treatment at their hands. It's quite a startling contrast seeing Quigley and Blair in direct reversals of the characters they normally portray. I could very well see Quigley in the role of Brenda and Blair as the victim. But, Quigley(..always abused as nothing more than that extra willing to expose her breasts), impresses as an uncorrupted and pure "victim of circumstance", unable to evade her attackers..it had to be a difficult scene, dragged into a room, her clothes ripped away, as this band of brutes just grope away while they giggle in celebration.The film will be recognized for it's hideous fashion statements of that time(..it's also undeniably quite dated which worked for me, to tell you the truth), loaded with profane dialogue(..delivered with gusto by all involved) but has a bitchin' rock soundtrack and the conclusion where Blair gets even delivers. Really a film for fans of base and unsavory exploitation. A relic of the 80's that fans of trash cinema owe it to themselves to see.