Terminal Island

Perhaps to prepare us for Stephanie Rothman's upcoming appearance with some of her other films at Alamo Drafthouse in April, this week's Weird Wednesday film is her 1973 film Terminal Island. Let's take it to Lars:

"'Where society dumps its human garbage!' At some indistinct point in the very near future, which looks suspiciously like the early '70s, America has outlawed capital punishment. So murderers are sent to a blockaded island to fend for themselves. A new Darwinian social order asserts itself and the few women on the island have a pretty rough go of it -- until they decide to fight back. This is very likely the first women-in-prison movie directed by a woman, but it's hardly a chick flick. Stephanie Rothman, like so many other talented people in the movie business, was given her start in films by the great Roger Corman, who certainly deserves a statue in Hollywood, albeit an inexpensive one. Her films, while every bit as sweaty and violent as those of her male counterparts, always contain fascinating touches of feminine insight. Featuring the glistening naked torsos of Phyllis Davis, Barbara Leigh and Marta 'Lost In Space' Kristen. Plus, look for Tom Selleck as a coke-snorting doctor."