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Mankillers (1987)

Mankillers poster
Directed by
David A. Prior
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A CIA agent recruits a team of female convicts to form a commando unit. They are sent on a mission to take down a rogue operative.

low-budgetcampyfast-pacedexploitativedatedb-moviecheesyaction-heavy

What happens

Mankillers, also known as 12 Wild Women, is a 1987 action film written and directed by David A. Prior. Filmed in 1986 in and around Riverside, California, United States, it was shot back to back with Deadly Prey as part of the newly formed Action International Pictures. The alternate title notwithstanding, Mankillers actually features fifteen women as members of the titular commando unit, not twelve. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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