Switchblade Sisters

Quentin Tarantino, a longtime fan of Jack Hill's work, bought the rights to the film and re-released it in 1996 through his film company Rolling Thunder Pictures. He held a huge premiere and a celebration at a theater in Los Angeles, where the original cast attended. Co-star Marlene Clark remembered the event in an interview many years later and laughed about it. "My commercial agency called me and said "We have an invitation to a screening of SWITCHBLADE SISTERS!" Clark laughed. "[Rolling Thunder] actually sent a car to bring me to the screening! All the way over I thought, "This is a flashback. I'm having a breakdown." Nope! I got to the theater, and it was for real! All the other women from the movie were there, and there was a nice little party afterwards at a place called the Red Room. It was amazing."

When introducing the film at the Fantastisk Film Festival 1995 in Lund, Sweden, where it was screened under the title Switchblade Sisters, writer/director Jack Hill claimed that he had based the script on William Shakespeare's Othello.

Writer/director Jack Hill, when interviewed at the 1996 re-release of the film, pointed out that it did have some authenticity - he interviewed girl gang members and rewrote the script. "But the idea of doing a realistic movie about street gangs with beautiful blondes in hot pants was preposterous, so we tried to make it a wacky fantasy."

Kitty Bruce (Donut) is comedian Lenny Bruce's daughter.

Co-star Marlene Clark said during an interview in 2000 that, even though she did not have a very big part, it was fun to play. "I had a copy of Mao Tse-tung's Red Book stuck in my jacket pocket, and I had the best time." But she did admit that filming the shootout scene where she was firing a machine gun from atop a modified car/tank nearly sent her to the emergency room. "That wasn't handled well at all. The guy who was supposed to be the stunt coordinator was really just a stuntman. He didn't put me in a special jacket or brace or anything. I had no support whatsoever, and when that thing drove up onto the sidewalk and hit the wall, my ribs just shook all over the inside of my body. I really thought something was broken."