Blood Games (1990) – the best rape-revenge movie ever made about a woman’s softball team, this movie has been alternately titled Baseball Bimbos in Hillbilly Hell but that makes it sound like it’s silly, and one thing Blood Games isn’t, is silly. One of the few slasher-iffic horror movies directed by a woman (Tanya Rosenberg, in this case, who never made another film) it opens with a women’s softball team invited to a hick town to play the locals for some unknown reason. They mop up the field with the dudes, and that turns out to be a terrible idea because these guys are the original sore losers. Before they know it their team bus has been attacked and they’re being hunted down one by one. Crammed with nudity, teeming with crossbow murders, and sporting a high badass babe to dumb hillbilly ratio, it also features some bizarre, very long, slow motion sequences of gang rape and slaughter – sometimes both at the same time. The only indication that this movie was directed by a woman is that every female in it kicks a whole lot of ass while wearing some of the most unattractive 80′s hangover outfits every put onscreen. An underseen exploitation oddity. (Watch it!)
