We're back, after a break, for season two of Video Store Nightmares! Join us to discuss master exploitation director Jack Hill's foray into high school gang-turf-warfare: Switchblade Sisters. New girl in town - Maggie - helps turn the all-girl Dagger Debs (a sister gang to the all-male Silver Daggers) into a ferocious, independent force. Meanwhile, she's engaged in a power struggle with Lace, the ostensibly tough gang leader who secretly dreams of domestic bliss with fellow gang captain Dominic. Switchblade Sisters pays homage to drive-in juvenile delinquency films that came before, while influencing scores of exploitation film-makers to come. On this episode: an elevator assault, an abusive juvie warden, toilet bowl swirlies, teenage drug pushers, charity fraud, fights over student-union influence, acquiescent adults, derelict cops, teen pregnancy, a roller-rink massacre, Black-power socialists, ubiquitous switch blades, and ostracizing the poor girl who "lost an eye for this gang!"
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