![]() A few strange moments that include some medical experimentation are a bit more disturbing than the rest of the film, as they're cold and clinical and lack the camp value that some of the other exploitative elements of the movie have. ![]() An inmate attempting to escape is shot to death against a red and white striped background, and there's a rape scene thrown in for good measure. Before we hit the half hour mark we've found our way into the shower room where the naked and perky inmates rub themselves down as the camera leers. ![]() A slaphappy inmate versus inmate scene provides us with some great 'she ripped me off' dialogue and the required inferred lesbianism that always seems to work its way into the women in prison genre. Rather than go down like suckers, eventually the inmates band together in hopes of making it out of Connorville alive and with all of their synapses still firing properly.Ī few stand out set pieces from the film include a dream sequence where an inmate makes out with her boy toy through the bars of the prison in which she's being held captive while wielding a knife at him. He's got a penchant for illegal electroshock therapy and bizarre medical experiments and she knows just the type of girls who would be perfect fodder for his diabolical machine. To get the dissenting prisoners back for their public display of dissatisfaction, McQueen enlists the aid of the prison doctor to get her revenge. This friendship gets them into trouble though, as the tough as nails warden, Superintendent McQueen (Barbara Steele of Mario Bava's masterful Black Sunday), isn't too happy with their performance. She soon befriends Maggie (Juanita Brown of Foxy Brown) and Pandora (Ella Reid), and the girls put on a skit in the recreation room. ![]() Before Jonathan Demme hit the big time in Hollywood with movies like Silence Of The Lambs, he was part of Roger Corman's stable and in 1974 he was recruited to keep Corman's women in prison gravy train rolling along with his ode to wronged inmates and twisted prison guards, Caged Heat.Ī lovely young girl named Jacqueline (Erica Gavin who will always be remembered for her work in Russ Meyer's fantastic Vixen) is busted for drugs and in turn shipped off to the penal hall in Connorville. ![]()
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