The Silencer

No movie poster, this was a straight home video release.

Andy Sidaris was the go to film maker when it came to the chicks & guns topic but, ages before him we had Crown International Pictures, one of the most well known B movies companies, in a way they contributed hundred of films to the exploitation genre, and in the early 90's the exploitation genre had fallen into a deep agony, you know people grew tired of watching the same stories re-told over and over again. However exploitation by meaning is defined as squeezing the fruit's juice to its last drop so Crown International Pictures didn't give up and thought, "hey, La Femme Nikita was quite a blockbuster, how about making our own Femme Nikita", and that's how we got 1992's The Silencer, a cocktail of the Andy Sidaris style and some inspiration from female spy movies. 

Our killing machine.

Nice gums, I mean guns!

Our Angel doing her thing.

Probably the only interesting scene of the movie.

This little nothing is about a female assassin named Angel. Angel has to kill five scumbags who are involved in a child prostitution ring. She uses a Wather PPK with a silencer (hence the title of the film) to eliminate low-lifes. We know that she has a shady past, but this really isn't explored too much in the film. She's being tracked by another assassin who is probably her former boss and possibly lover. The film pretty much just leaves it at that. What's really silly or bizarre is that she plays a video game called "The Silencer" (again, an illusion to the title of the film) to receive information about her assignments. Her former boss/lover/whatever uses the same video game to track her down.

Angel, 100% killing macine.

She's ready anytime!

The acting is mediocre. The plot is nothing new. In fact, the script itself is probably the biggest crime you'll see in the movie, and the title sequences, which were supposed to be from the video game Angel plays would have the original Atari console turning in its grave.

Overall the movie itself proves to be a complete failure, don't get me wrong here but, 90's exploitation was the display of the worst movies ever made. 70's & 80's exploitation was a different thing it had vibes, it had the feeling of making low budget movies with a sense of respect for a little quality. The  only thing that had vibes & feelings in the 90's was the Grunge scene no doubt about it.

Here's the movie trailer:

And here the lame "wanna be a video game" opening scene with the worst 80's style pop song:

I wonder why most of the good exploitation films keep on being out of print or hard to find gems, while some of the worst exploitation films are being re-released! The Silencer has being re-released by Millcreek Entertainment on the 12 movie pack Dangerous Babes, which you can get in Amazon for less than 9 Dollars, a bargain.