Alley Cat

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“This lady owns the night!” Billie has had enough of the thugs and gangsters who have been terrorizing her neighborhood. After her grandparents are savagely attacked on their way home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and, using her knowledge of butt-kicking martial arts, begins dishing out her own brand of vigilante justice. What she doesn’t expect is that it’s not just the local hoods (led by a punked-out freak named Scarface) who have put a target on her back, but the criminal justice system itself is stacked against her and they are ready to make her life a living hell, forcing her to become a one-woman hit squad known to all the bad guys as … Alley Cat! A whacked out mix of action drama, revenge thriller and exploitation madness, laced with some sideways social commentary, Alley Cat is a gritty, fast-paced and unintentionally hilarious crime flick set in the seedy Los Angeles of the early 80s, propelled by a head-busting performance from Karin Mani (Avenging Angel) as Billie, the alley cat with deadly claws and a thirst for vengeance! (Dir. by Victor Odornez/Ed Palmos/Al Valletta, 1984, USA, 82 mins., Rated R)