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For the best of the Horror/Cult/Exploitation film experience
Volume Four
"You're in a house of desperate women here & a long, long way from home"
I think the most fascinating aspect of women in prison movies is, at least for me, gang rape. I don't condone rape or violence towards women in any way, but when it comes to women in prison movies I say let it rip. The thought of several naked females dominating another naked female...well that's just fuckin' hot!
Caged Heat starts out with 1) a great poster. That poster shows about 5 scantily clad women and has the tagline 'Women’s Prison U.S.A.-Rape, Riot & Revenge. White Hot Desires Melting Cold Prison Steel!'
2) Director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs). And perhaps the best guy at getting a lot outta not much...Roger Corman.
3) Rainbeaux Smith
Caged Heat is a great WIP drive-in movie, complete with nudity, cheese and not a lot of money to back it. My only complaint is....no rape. Not girl-girl rape, anyway.
Barbara Steele makes an appearance as the warden, who needs the help of a wheelchair to get around.
Our story unfolds mostly at Connerville Institute for Women. Upon arrival, the girls are made to strip nekkid and do calisthenics. The first big fight brings the line "I'm gonna knock yer pretty little teeth so far down yer throat your gonna get a picket fence down yer asshole".
We also have a sadistic doctor who likes to dole out shock therapy, Psycho surgery (which includes the medical procedure of injecting the inmate, fondling the breasticles, taking Polaroid’s of the unconscious beauty and finally a vaginal injection), and CPT or Correctional Physical Therapy.
And for me, the funniest part of the whole damn thing...we got an inmate who moves around the facility pretty easily, by timing herself. "4:26, 4:25, 4:24" but all of a sudden forgets how to count, goes to "4:22" and 5 seconds later, "4:20". Anyway, during this scene she's trying to get food for a girl in solitary confinement, she gets caught by an old lady who screams for help. The inmate slams the old girls head against the fridge and knocks her false teeth out. That shit is right up there with "Black Caesar’s Tommy catching his woman with his so-called friend, slapping her and knocking her wig off.
In conclusion, Caged Heat is a fun time, but doesn't rank up there with some of the more serious WIP flicks. Nonetheless, it's worth watching if just for the cheese factor.
Women In Cages
Here we have the tale of Carol Jeffries, a.k.a. Jeff. She's hung up on a heroin smuggling charge by self-proclaimed "player" Rudy. She ends up in an island prison with other American inmates.
The head matron here is played by the great Pam Grier, who switches roles from inmate. She's a bad-ass bitch too. Given more development, I think she could easily give Dyanne Thorne's Ilsa a run for the money in brutality.
As for the rape factor...beyond some teaser scenes with Pam Grier and Sofia Moran (Theresa), nothing. I'll take it though. If I can't get the gang stuff, I'm happy with the hard-ass offering the inmate a little lovin'. I have power issues.
Jeff and her sisters plan an escape. What Jeff doesn't know is that a couple of her cellmates have been offered deals to rub her out. While in 'the hole' (which is pretty much well described), Jeff finds an escape route. With Theresa, navigator of the jungle, in tow, how could they go wrong? Well...there's a scene when Theresa claims it's too dark to see where they're going, which seems strange given that it looks as if it's in the afternoon.
Really, though, I like this one. Pam Grier's performance alone is worth it to me. Another Roger Corman production.
10 Violent Women
Once upon a time, there were 10 not-so-violent girls who worked in a mine. They had a hard-ass supervisor who loosely resembled the Big Boss Man (for all you rasslin’ fans). The girls became tired of his sadistic shit, kicked his ass and became- dah, dah, dah- 10 theivers of jewels. The jewels belonged to a Sheik with lots o’ money (are there any other kind?) and about 75 minutes to get the jewels back.
Now we have the jewelry store security guard. During the heist, the girls manipulate the poor dude, leading him to utter, while scratching his head: “you girls are confusing me”. I took that to mean the sap was really confused, and he forgot his line. The owner of the store plays it way over the top (maybe to compensate for the guards underwhelming performance?).
They hook up with, Leo the Fence, played by director Ted V. Mikels. And I think Ted’s actually the best actor in the damn movie. He’s also a very likeable guy in person. Thanks for signing my DVD, Mr. Mikels. Anyway, they make off with coke valued at 1.5 million bucks when the deal goes wrong and leave Leo with a high heeled appendectomy. Finally, one of our girls tries to unload the dope to a couple of narcs and wham! Prison time for all involved.
Once in prison, the girls run afoul of the head matron, who like Pam Grier in Women In Cages, wants a little…sexy time with the cell mates.
There are flaws in the movie: a towel whipping sounds strangely like Grampa trying to bash Marilyn Burns’ head with the hammer during the dinner scene in TCM.
This may come in handy for any of you prison bound girls: a double Karate chop to the neck seems to always render a person unconscious. The whole movie plays out like a Quinn-Martin production, i.e. Act I, Act II…look it up, non-knowers of which I speak…
This is really not a bad movie…it plays on equal ground with some of the other WIP flicks.
