Purple Television
[11/07/2025] : Television
A Purple selection of cult underground classics, film #2: “Ms .45 – Official Trailer”
A harrowing plunge into early 1980s New York City’s grim underbelly, Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) is one of the most uncompromising and visceral entries in the American exploitation canon.
Starring Zoë Lund as Thana, a mute seamstress whose world shatters after two assaults in one day, the film fuses silent trauma, vigilante fury and mythic retribution, re-imagining women’s rage through a .45-calibre lens.
Now restored in 4K by Arrow Video and Drafthouse Films, Ferrara’s grim and feverish vision returns clearer and more unsettling than ever.
