15 Greatest Guilty Pleasure Movies Of The 1980s

Ninja 3: The Domination isn't the only film on our list with an Exorcist connection. The young Academy Award-nominated star of William Friedkin's horror classic, Linda Blair, went on to become a major player in low-rent trash cinema once she reached adulthood.

While Blair headlined more than her share of guilty pleasure greats - Exorcist II, Roller Boogie, Chained Heat - the one trash-fest to rule them all is 1984's bad girl exploitation classic, Savage Streets.

Directed by Danny Steinmann (a former porn director who would go on to helm Friday the 13th Part V), this extraordinarily sleazy flick casts a 26-year old Blair as Brenda, the leader of a high school girl gang who cross paths with some thuggish male drug-dealers.

After Brenda and co spurn their advances and publicly humiliate them, the enraged thugs swear revenge - and they take it by brutally beating and gang-raping Brenda's deaf-mute sister Heather (future scream queen Linnea Quigley). Once Brenda learns the truth, she sets out to get some bloody retribution of her own.

From that synopsis, Savage Streets might sound fairly edgy and grim; and unsurprisingly, the rape sequence is very unpleasant. Beyond this, though, the film is filled to bursting with trashy 80s delights: garish fashions, big hair, screechy power ballads, profanity-strewn trash talk, and blouse-ripping cat-fights aplenty.

Although it's clear very early on that the film should in no way to be taken seriously, Blair at least is really giving it her all, particularly in the utterly deranged final act. The whole endeavour will doubtless be too distasteful for some, but good taste does not enter the equation with great trash cinema.