Ms. 45

Ms. 45
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Abel Ferrara
Produced by	Rochelle Weisberg Richard Howorth Mary Kane
Written by	Nicholas St. John
Starring	Zoë Tamerlis Lund
Music by	Joe Delia
Cinematography	James Lemmo
Edited by	Christopher Andrews
Distributed by	Image Entertainment (2000) Drafthouse Films (2014)
Release date	April 24, 1981 (1981-04-24)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$62,000

Ms. 45, also known as Angel of Vengeance, is a 1981 American exploitation thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Zoë Tamerlis Lund.

Inspired by films such as 1973's Thriller – A Cruel Picture and 1974's Death Wish, the film is a rape and revenge story about Thana, a mute woman who becomes a misandristic spree killer after she is raped twice in one day when going home from work. It was critically maligned on its theatrical release, but is now generally highly regarded among fans of underground and independent film.

It was acquired by Alamo Drafthouse Films in October 2013 and remastered in HD from the original negatives. The distributor released the film on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy in March 2014.

While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a mysterious, masked attacker. She survives and makes her way back to her apartment, where she encounters a burglar and is raped a second time. Thana, her name an allusion to Greek god of death Thanatos, hits this second assailant with a small sculpture then bludgeons him to death with an iron, and carries his body to the bathtub. She goes to work the next day, and after encountering working with an iron, watching her boss Albert rip a shirt off a mannequin, she goes into shock state, which worries her co-workers. However, when she looks at the trashbin at her office, she decides to dismember the burglar's corpse and throw the parts away in various locations of the city.