Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Nigel P Uncle Jess Franco's itchy camera zooms away from an austere, guarded prison building to the sound of a young woman, naked and chained as it turns out, screaming for mercy. This will be one of a collection of Franco/Erwin C. Dietrich collaboration then, a 'women in prison' drama.Lucky Lina Romay (as Maria da Guerra) is a new inmate. "The crime you are guilty of could not have been committed by a normal woman," she is told, and is soon sent by duplicitous 'doctor' Carlos Costa (Paul Muller) for electro-shock therapy. The torture is suitably graphic and convincingly played, as are subsequent indignities, both sexual and 'therapeutic'. Mostly, this is conducted accompanied by the inappropriately cheery jazz score from regular composers Daniel White and Walter Baumgartner. And while I'm listing familiar elements from other 'WIP' films, yes, the locations are excellent and the director makes very good use of them.On one hand, this is a series of scenes featuring pretty, dubbed women in various sexual situations. On the other, if you find it possible to look beyond that - and it's not always easy - you have a thin tale of Maria, a mentally delicate girl, being abused in a vile manner in a film only Franco could make. The 'doctor' played by Muller has been dubbed with a very camp voice, which makes his sexual manipulation of Maria unlikely. After sharing with us all the dubious sight of his hirsute back whilst rutting with Soledad Miranda in 1970's 'Eugenie De Sade', here similar treats are in store for Lina Romay - lucky Paul Muller! By this time, Maria's so forlorn, she can barely smoke a cigarette.Maria's crime is told in flashback, and in the telling, provides one of the strangest moments in a Franco film - which says a lot. A slow motion scene of incest and violence between her and daddy (Jess Franco) - although it is acted in slow-motion, but filmed at normal speed - demonstrates Maria's current predicament. This is followed up with some almost penetrative shots of various inmates' genitalia (one with inserted cigarette) and a close-up of a dead mouse in Maria's breakfast. Whilst the story is an overall mish-mash and is leanly spread out, there is no denying the set-pieces are guaranteed to disturb, one way or another.Romay is excellent, as is Martine Stedil as Bertha and Beni Cardoso as deranged Rosaria. Monica Swinn plays the monocle-wearing, trouser-less chief wardress. She's very good, even given the usual wall of dubbing that compromises any performance. Why does she do what she does? Because she can. Just why she reserves special treatment for poor Maria, well ...

arfdawg-1 Hands down this must be one of the worst movies ever made. For a female prison pic, it's at the bottom of the barrel too. There is really no plot. There's a prison for like 3 or 4 women on an isolated island. There are more guards than prisoners! If you've seen any prison flicks, you know the drill only this one is so slow you will fall asleep in the middle of the rapes and beatings!Oh, yes and then there's the crazy lesbian warden who wears a monacle and likes the prisoners to beat HER up!Oy vey. This movie must have had a three dollar budget.When the three prisoners escape, you'd think everyone on the island would know it because they are talking so loud. Don't expect acting. The quality lies somewhere below a 4 year old reading lines.I'm really shocked by some of the good reviews. This movie isn't even bad-good. It's just a bore.

D P i am not sure with what intention the movie is made.. It resembles to cannibal apocalypse (another ridiculous movie)in the sense of its treatment and cheap thrills. On the other hand it shows up naked women without any reason in it's frames.the acting, plot, cinematography, screenplay is obviously, missing and you hope that the pathetic background score should have been missing instead. It is that bad. On the acting front, their are just a couple of seconds when you would see some acting on the screen and that is by the warden. when the leading lady prisoner undresses and approaches her, its the look in her eyes which makes you think that a good actress have been wasted.The effort is so bad that that it get stck up in ur brain as if a chewing gum stuck in hair!!! quite frankly, if u want to show women's bodies and make money, then do just that n do it in a way which makes the experience worth enjoying.. or if u want to show the prison life, show it with some empathy and sincerity.

mr_dark_eyed Can a movie get worse? ever? I bought this movie, not hoping to find great directing or acting. Just nudes and erotica, yet, the BAD acting, BAD directing and lack of anything that shows someone put some effort into making this piece of.. film, was Very annoying. The only, ONLY, good thing about this film is Martine Stedil. Sorry, but Lina Romay just doesn't do it for me. Martine is a Beauty. And you get to see close ups of her 'private' parts! Other than that, the film is Awful. The lack of respect to the viewer shows in every scene. It was like watching a film made for the mentally retarded. Films for children would still be more clever. I'm saying this, and I didn't expect to watch something intellectual or artsy.. just beautiful nude girls being canned, raped, abused, etc. Yet I just couldn't swallow the amount of sh** in this 'film'. 2/10 for the presence of Martine Stedil.