IRON ANGELS (1987)

If you ever felt Charlie's Angels needed piles of henchmen riddled with machine gun wounds, then IRON ANGELS (aka FIGHTING MADAM) will give you that—as well as a sadistic villain who seductively eats ketchup while watching a man be tortured. Part of a wave of "girls with guns" low-budget action coming out of Hong Kong in the late 80s/early 90s, IRON ANGELS is near the top of the heap for its excess and odd touches such as exploding fashion accessories and oxygen saving Buddhist meditation. Notably this hyper-violent, hyper-kinetic video assault was helmed by hyper-hyphenate Teresa Woo who wrote, produced, and directed this as well as two of its three sequels for her own distribution company (Godfrey Ho directed the mostly unrelated fourth, whoops!).

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¡DEATHBLADE! is hosted by Zack Carlson, with assistance from Laird Jimenez.

About Zack: Zack Carlson is a third-generation atheist who hosted/co-created the Vice series OUTSIDER, has written multiple projects for Adult Swim, and is co-author of Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film and Bleeding Skull: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. He doesn't eat fruits or vegetables.

About Laird: Laird Jimenez worked at video stores and movie theaters, and briefly appeared in the music video for the Georgia Satellites 1986 hit "Keep Your Hands to Yourself." He has watched many action movies with burned in Greek and Japanese subtitles. Some of them were pretty good!