Mankillers (1987) **1/2

1987's Mankillers delivers on its title's promise: men are killed (and many, at that). Like The Dirty Dozen twenty years before it, MK follows a team of prisoners (quickly and barely) trained for a suicide mission, but swaps the gender, lowers the budget, reduces the skill levels, and adds a decent helping of exploitation. There's plenty of '80s staples: slimeballs, scantily clad babes, feathered hair, mullets, cocaine, uplifting power jams (Exhibit A, Exhibit B), a training montage. If you're in the mood for a low-rent, female-fronted Commando (1985) that looks like it was shot in a producer's backyard, this could scratch the itch. These aren't quite the bad bitches you might hope for but they certainly waste a lot of douchey dudes.