32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Utterly boring... Don't waste your money... Not even worth a rental..., July 4, 2006
Two years after "Bare Behind Bars" (1980), Oswaldo De Oliveira has totally lost his touch. This is the most insipidly boring movie I've watched in years. What could go wrong with a movie involving a white slavery ring operating in the Amazon jungle? Well for one, the women featured here are mostly unattractive. There is very little nudity. There is close to zero sex. There is no sleaze, filth or degradation within miles of this jail. There is practically no plot. The acting is lamentable. What you are left with is 90 minutes of utter boredom.
Amazon's website labels this as X-rated. It is NOT. "Bare Behind Bars" is X-rated. This pile of turd would be lucky to get even as high as an R rating. It hovers somewhere above a PG13 at most.
Blue Underground has as usual done a very creditable job of restoring the film. It looks as good as new. Actually it looks far better than this crap deserves. Blue Underground can't be faulted for its commitment to restoration. I just wish they were a bit more discriminating and exercised some taste in what they chose to restore. Don't waste your money on this loser. It's not even worth a rental. Amazon should have a zero-star rating to cater to turkeys like this.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't believe the hype..., June 30, 2006
I bought this DVD based on the review of it on the DVD Drive in web site. Either the person who reviewed it has never seen an exploitation movie before, or was not old enough to view one in the first place. He made it sound like the most graphic and disturbing prison movie ever. You would have thought it compared to the 'Ilsa' movies the way this guy went on about it. I'm not sure what movie he saw, but it wasn't this one. When the most extreme scene in the movie involves a person being shot at falling over bloodlessly like an old western, you have to wonder why exactly it merited an "unrated" version.
I guess it's worth it if you want to see naked women dancing around in a circle, but it you want to see a gritty violent movie, buy something else.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fast forward review, June 7, 2006
The only reason I bought this flick was due to "Bare Behind Bars", for my money the best women in prison movie ever, tainted only slightly by leaning too hard on the lezzing and not enough on the abuse. But still, it was a five star sleaze spectacular. The first problem that crops up on this turkey is, unlike BBB, the bad guys here are mostly dudes, particularly this one long-hair sweaty fat dude who looks kind of like David Crosby on coke and booze at 40, and that cuts back on the NTRL factor (nudity to total running length) obviously - less chicks, less nudity.
Of course, strictly speaking this may not classify as women in prison, more like women in corral, but that's the general idea, though the shower is way too small, and there's no doctor for cavity searches. After a lot of nudity, mostly partying with the dudes, there's an escape and a nude girl gets shot up and dies pretty good, but the absence of bullet holes and blood really spoils it. Then there's some plot that goes on way too long, another escape and finally some brief hard R lezzing including carpet washing, though Fidel Castro eating a london broil comes to mind (I stole that from Opie & Anthony). There's some more lying around topless in the jungle stuff, and then a good catfight that threatens to turn bloody, before the girl on top gets an arrow in the back from stage left, only in close up we see the arrow hit her through the top she's wearing, and . . . she's not wearing a top at that point! Slight continuity problem. Then there's more plot and a little dancing around nude at some mining camp and then . . . it ends. I didn't have the sound up, so I'm not sure what was going on, who cares.
Well, a fair amount of nudity, but the two death scenes were rotten, there was only a brief uni-shower scene (some stream bathing, but not fully nude with all kinds of soapy bodies), zero whipping, limited lez . . . after BBB, a major let down. All I can find for it is two sleaze stars for nudity, I'm hard pressed to award it more. Pity, the director had such potential.
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