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Femmine Infernali
Escape from Hell
El Infierno de las Mujeres / Escape de un Cárcel de Mujeres / Hell Prison / I'm Coming Your Way / Hellfire on Ice, Part 2: Escape from Hell / Escape / Schwarze Nymphomanin in Sklavencamp / Die Schwarze Nymphomanin Teil 3: Escape from Hell / Die Liebeshexen vom Rio Cannibale
Italy / Spain 1980
produced by Arturo González for Società Nazionale Produzioni Cinematografiche
directed by Edward G. Muller (= Edoardo Mulargia)
starring Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Cristina Lay, Cintia Lodetti, Luciano Pigozzi, Serafino Profumo, Maite Nicote, Yael Forti, Zaira Zoccheddu, Adelaide Cendra, Angela Martinelli, Gilberto Galimberti, Anna Maria Panaro, Omero Capanna
story by Sergio Chiusi, screenplay by Sergio Chiusi, Roberto Estevez (= Gil Carretero), Edward G. Muller (= Edoardo Mulargia), music by Marcello Giombini
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A prison camp for women in the jungle as bad as they come: Not only are
the women worked to the bone and the warden (Luciano Pigozzi) is an
outright sadist, they're also sexually exploited and regularly whiplashed.
And whoever tries to make an escape attempt is routinely first raped and
then killed. What's shocking is that one of the former convicts (Yael
Forti) is now one of the most cruel guards. Only one of the camp's
personnel still has some kind of moral code, prison doctor Farrell
(Anthony Steffen), but all the violence has turned him into a hopeless
alcoholic. The women seem to be more or less resigned to their fate, until
one of them (Maite Nicote), after prostituting herself to one of the
guards (Serafino Profumo) for some tobacco and alcohol, is then brutally
tortured for the possession of same, with the very guard watching with
glee, and ultimately buried in a ditch to be bitten to death by a snake.
It's then that Vivienne (Cristina Lay) convinces her cellmates (Ajita
Wilson, Cintia Lodetti, Zaira Ziccheddu) and a few others that escape is
possible with the help of the doctor, who has long developed a soft spot
for her. So the doctor gives them all a serum faking bulbonic plague, and
at the insistance of the warden then takes them out into the jungle. A
valid plan, as there's an escape boat on the river nearby, only the good
doctor still has an account to settle with the warden and ultimately
strangles him to death, and when the guards find out a few hours later,
they go after the doctor and his women, with the intent of killing them
all ...
A typical women-in-prison sleaze piece of its era, lots of
focus of this movie is put on sex, violence, and sexual violence, in an
exploitative way that would be inacceptable in today's climate - and with
some justification at least, as the film tries to go to the jugular almost
all the time, doesn't even allow a story to develop until halfway through
and crams as much nudity and brutality as possible in even then. But of
course, watching movies only from the present day's point of view often
falls short of understanding them, and while there's little to actually
"defend" this movie apart from some atmospheric camerawork, it's
at the same time an interesting time capsule that gives some fascinating
insights what was at least acceptable entertainment back when. By
the way, this film was shot back to back with Orinoco: Prigioniere del
Sesso/Hotel Paradise
with more or less the same cast and crew, and the two films were so
similar that in 1985 they were both cut together in the movie Savage
Island that was held together by new material starring Linda Blair
and Leon Askin.
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