Savage Streets is an American independent feature film of the action genre with an emphasis on the female revenge and girls with guns tropes. It was directed by Danny Steinmann with a screenplay written by Steinmann and Norman Yonemoto. It was produced by Ginso Investments and distributed through Motion Picture Marketing. The movie was first screened in Springfield, Missouri on June 29th, 1984. It then opened to wider release in the U.S. on October 5th, 1984. The film stars Linda Blair as street-tough high school student Brenda along with Linnea Quigley as her deaf-mute sister Heather, Lisa Freeman as friend Francine Ramirez, John Vernon as high school principal Underwood and Robert Dryer as the main antagonist Jake.
This movie does not have a Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes. It has a Popcorn meter score of 52% based on more than 1,000 user ratings, averaging 3.3 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, Savage Streets has a weighted average review score of 3.16 out of 5 based on 6,497 user ratings.