Cherry Bomb (2011)

Cheap-o-rama rape revenge flick, so low-budget they couldn’t afford for it to make any sense. The cute heroine (well-built brunette Julin Jean) helps to ease the pain a little in this story of a stripper called Cherry Bomb who’s gang-raped by some well-connected creeps. After she gets out of the hospital, she plots to kill ’em all one by one.

It’s the most lightweight rape revenge movie ever made. Its intended audience seems (seriously) to be young girls. There’s some head-crushing, eye-gouging, bullet-blasting gore briefly at the end, but nothing harsh happens onscreen early on. There’s hardly even any nudity. We know that a rape happened most because we’re told so through exposition and Ms. Cherry Bomb seems to have a split personality. Sometimes she’s a sassy girly girl with a sing-song voice, sometimes she’s an enraged victim. She’s whatever the plot needs her to be at any moment. It all adds up to a Kill Bill knock-off on a $20 budget and a script hacked-out over a weekend. Check out the homage to Tarantino in the flashbacks where the camera points upward at the pack of rapists all lined up to look down at their victim.