A ★★★ review of Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)

Anyone who thinks that sleazy movies are solely the province of male directors ought to take a look at the ouevre of Doris Wishman. Right up until her death in 2002 at age 82, Wishman was still making movies like Satan Was a Lady and Dildo Heaven. This movie, her tenth as director, is perhaps her best-known, maybe because it can be read as a proto-feminist drama, or maybe just because of its title. Gigi Darlene is Meg, a housewife who endures a catalog of abuses from aggressive men and even a lesbian. Like many "roughies" of its day, it