17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best WIP movie by Bruno Mattei!, October 22, 2000
Even though CAGED WOMEN, Mattei's other prison flick, had better music and better lesbian soft-core scenes, this one takes the cake in the trashiest atmosphere yet. Right off the bat you feel immersed in the pure sleaze of this movie, complete with clantily clad women mouthing some of the dumbest dialog I've heard. The film essentially picks up, however, when Gabriele Tinti and 3 other male inmates escape from a prison escort and take a guard (Carlo De Mejo from CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD and TERROR EXPRESS) and the warden (Lorraine De Selle from CANNIBAL FEROX) hostage. The following half-hour or so, in which the male con's brutalize and rape the female prisoners is completely hallinatingly dirty. Luigi Ceccerelli's piano music and some weird attempts by Mattei to get some Dario Argento-ish lighting help the atmosphere out a little, and there's plenty of action and gore to keep most fans of the genre awake. The best part hands down has a girl blowing her brains out after a game of Russian roullete -right all over Gabriele Tinti's face while he laughs gleefully!
Genre fans should also watch for Jacques Stany and Laura Gemser, who used to be a big porno sensation worldwide. One of the pseudonyms for this film was EMANUELLE ESCAPES FROM HELL and Gemser's character is named "Emanuelle", but other than that there is little or no relation to any of the other Emanuelle films I've seen. Mattei's subsequent efforts were by far less polished and original, though some of them so laughable (like ROBOWAR, ZOMBIE 3, and COP GAME, that they remain outrageously entertaining.
I urge most fans of sleaze and depravity to check this one out.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
All the real nasty stuff is missing!!!!!!!!!!!, May 2, 2005
Yes, this is a very sleazy WIP from Italian exploitation master Vincent Dawn, but don't record over your bootlegs just yet. Hopefully WPM will someday be released by Shriek Show or Blue Underground, because this DVD is cut to hell. A quick flashback near the end of the film even contains scenes that were trimmed from the source print. We shouldn't still have to put up with this crap in 2005! An exploitation movie without the exploitation is like porno without the penetration.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
R-RATED MORE LIKE PG, November 1, 2005
Just finished watching this movie and all i got to say is that i see a lot more violence on a saturday morning cartoon show. the movie is so badly edited i couldn't follow the story the film transfer is crappy, all the blood and guts are cut from the movie, everytime there is an action scene there's this big jump in the film and sound. it was almost like watching an r-rated movie on primetime television. the worst part about it all is that this movie looks entertaining but because they cut everything out you can't tell. whoever is responsible should go to jail.
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