| They Call Me Macho Woman! | |
| Director: | Patrick G. Donahue |
| Producer: | Dee Donahue Patrick G. Donahue Newman Goldstein |
| Starring: | Debra Sweaney Brian Oldfield Sean P. Donahue Mike Donahue Jerry Johnson |
| Music: | Emilio Kauderer |
| Cinematography: | Mike Pierce |
| Editing: | Jules Shapiro |
| Distributor: | Troma Entertainment |
| Country: | United States |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
| Language: | English |
They Call Me Macho Woman! is a 1989 action film written and directed by Patrick G. Donahue and distributed by Troma Entertainment. The film belongs to the girls with guns subgenre.
The story follows city woman Susan Morris (Debra Sweaney), who decides to escape her banal urban life and goes looking for a house in the country. Unfortunately, she's taken prisoner by a group of savage drug smugglers, headed by the ruthless Mongo (Brian Oldfield). After escaping their clutches, Susan is forced to transform herself into a fearsome warrior and exact her revenge on Mongo and his evil henchmen.
"Born to shop...she learned to kill!"[1]
A lot of the original music in this film became trademark Troma songs and were used in a variety of films, including the Toxic Avenger sequels.
TV Guide sees in the film a "Troma thriller (a whole genre of humorously sub-"B" movies)".[2]
The website Girls With Guns said of the film: "Yes, it’s dumb. Yes, it’s cheap. Yes, it makes little or no sense, in particular her sudden transformation from plucky but largely ineffective heroine [who can’t even stab someone in a way that causes them more than moderate discomfort] into a warrior woman, capable of embedding a shiny axe in your head from 15 paces. But, you know what? It’s never boring (...)"[3]