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2022 has been, yet again, another fantastic year for Dtv (or more accurately “direct to market”) movies. There have been some great films on VOD, streaming (yes I’m including streaming premieres this year too) and on digital so, as per previous years here on Nerdly, I’ve compiled a list of My personal top 10 of the best direct-to-market titles of the year, be they VOD, streaming or digital downloads. The only criteria is that we’ve covered the film here on Nerdly And I’ve seen the film myself. This list takes in all the films that never made it to cinemas with the list in order of release date not preference, with the month of release listed alongside each film. And man was this list Hard to cut down to just ten films… as it is each and every year!

Nightshade (Jan 2022)

Homicide Detective Ben Hays (Lou Ferrigno Jr....

Stars: Morgan Shaley Renew, Senethia Dresch, Shelby Lois Guinn, Mike Amason, Dove Dupree, Micah Peroulis, Cleveland Langdale, Jonathan Benton, Shane Silman | Written by Christopher Bickel, Shane Silman | Directed by Christopher Bickel

We recently reviewed Bae Wolf from writer/director David Axe, a filmmaker who got his start in features writing The Theta Girl, from director Christopher Bickel who – unlike Axe – hasn’t followed up that 2017 film with any further features. Instead Bickel has, in the intervening years, spent his time making shorts and music videos. Now however Bickel makes his return to filmmaking by directing and co-writing Bad Girls, a girl-gang homage to the films of Russ Meyer and Jack Hill.

Bad Girls follows three “troubled” women – Val (Morgan Shaley Renew), Mitzi (Senethia Dresch), and Carolyn (Shelby Lois Guinn) – who, after spending their youth in and out of detention halls and jail, work together at a strip club. However the...

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Bad Girls is a shocking drug-fueled post-modern female rage-odyssey from acclaimed director of The Theta Girl, Christopher Bickel, and producer Crystal Colligan

Films Colacitta announces the release of Bad Girls, a violent underground film by Christopher Bickel, premiering in early 2021. 2021 is poised to be the year of the underground film. Due to the void of Hollywood content caused by the 2020 pandemic, audiences are clamoring for new and unusual programming. Heading the charge for unique DIY boutique cinema is Bad Girls, an eye-popping artsploitation road movie from acclaimed director of The Theta Girl, Christopher Bickel. The film’s producer, Crystal Colligan, describes Bad Girls as a “shocking drug-fueled post-modern female rage-odyssey.”

Bad Girls gleefully subverts genre tropes in telling its lurid, hyperreal tale. After robbing a strip club, three desperate teenage girls lead a grizzled Federal Agent on a lysergic cross-country chase,...