Jennifer (Yvette Yzon), a tough-as-nails chick, has just been thrown
into the most notorious women's prison of them all, the House of Lost
Souls located somewhere in a faraway corner of the jungle, where the
inmates are beaten and whipped on a regular basis, also raped should need
be, forced to work long hours, even killed on occasion with their bodies
buried all over the place, and the warden (Odette Khan) is nothing short
of a dangerous sadistic bitch. On top of that, the prettiest girls of the
prison are also loaned out to the local brothel to work as whores - and
Jennifer is rather pretty. However, when she refuses to take part in an
upcoming orgy organized by the brothel's head pimp, the Gouvernor (Jim
Gaines), he has another girl killed by inserting a snake into her vagina
just to teach Jennifer a lesson. The conditions in jail get more
gruesome by the day though, so soon Jennifer and a few others start to
make up escape plans, which Jennifer decides to put into action
immediately after her best friend Monica (Dyane Craystan) is almost
tortured to death. However, Jennifer's escape plan involves her and all
her fellow escapees taking part in above mentioned orgy, so Jennifer first
has to make up with the gouvernor again ... The gouvernor is quick to
see through Jennifer's motives, but he hires her and her friends for the
orgy anyways - where they have sex with the gouvernors friends until they
all pass out drunk. Then the girls take off through the jungle. However,
the gouvernor has foreseen this and has made the girls the prey in an
organized (wo)manhunt, in which his friends/clients are to hunt the girls
down and then do with them whatever they want, and they are accompanied by
a gang of natives - who do little though than the customary jungle
drumming and making cartoon-noises (really). One by one, the girls fall
prey to the gouvernor's hunters, but Jennifer has quite a few tricks up
her sleeve to not only survive but also improve the situation of the
escapees, like getting them weapong and the like. Still, eventually, her
group is down to herself and Monica, and though by now the two of them are
armed, they know they won't stand much of a chance - so Monica tells
Jennifer to make a run for it while she will fend off their pursuers - and
she manages to kill the gouvernor and a few of his friends before being
captured and dragged back to jail, where the warden wants to publicly hang
her to set an example. Just before the execution can be performed
though, policecars arrive and the warden is arrested on the spot while a
policewoman saves Monica from the galloows - and the policewoman turns out
to be Jennifer, of course. The Jail: A Women's Hell is a
throwback to the many WIP (women in prison) movies from 20 to 30 years
ago, movies full of sleaze and violence carried by often at best
rudimentary storylines - and director Bruno Mattei has made quite a few of
them back in the day, and if anything, this movie shows Mattei hasn't
forgotten anything over the years. That said of course, The Jail: A
Women's Hell is not exactly a genre classic, rather only more of the
same put onto film in a functional and technically ok way, but without any
imagination. At least though Yvette Yzon makes a pretty good lead.
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