Sadomania - Hölle der Lust (1981)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Jesus Franco

Writers:

Günter Ebert (screenplay)
Günter Ebert (story)

Release Date:

27 March 1981 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Nude Fight Scene | Breasts | Bestiality | Sex | Nude Woman Murdered

Cast

Ursula Buchfellner	...	Tara
Ajita Wilson	...	Magda Urtado
Antonio Mayans	...	Gov. Mendoza (as Robert Foster)
Gina Janssen	...	Loba Mendoza
Andrea Guzon	...	Conito
Uta Koepke	...	Olga
Marie Luise Lusewitz	...	Uschi
Otto Retzer	...	Mario
Ángel Caballero	...	Michel
Tania Sandoval	...	Miriam
Patricia Quow	...	Juna
Diana Capdevila	...	Head wardess
Consuelo Tejera
María del Carmen González
Raymond Hardy	...	Prison guard

Also Known As:

Hellhole Women (USA)
Prisoners of the Flesh (UK) (censored version)
Sadomanía (el infierno de la pasión)

Runtime:

Netherlands:84 min | Spain:103 min | USA:67 min | Germany:84 min

Country:

Spain | West Germany

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated | UK:18 (slightly cut) | France:-16 | Germany:18 | Denmark:16

Company:

Gold Internacional Films

Trivia:

In the scene where Lucas is seen having sex with a young man, the role of the young man is actually played by lead actress Ajita Wilson, minus her wig and wearing a fake mustache.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scenes where Mario is rescuing the girls at the brothel and at the prison, he changes from pants to shorts, and then back to pants again.

Dumb, fun an reprehensible

This is the story of a young woman, kidnapped on her honeymoon, and send to a womens prison, somewhere in the latin world. Her husband spends the rest of the movie trying to save her. That, however is only an excuse for a story, as the real focus of the film are the scenes of degradation committed to the female inmates. This being a Jess Franco movie, you know you're in for a treat, if you're a badfilm fan. It is reprehensible, but most of all, this movie is just silly fun although in a seriously un-PC way. The film is astonishingly misogynistic, and that is unforgivable, but it is fun to see how cheaply this movie was made. A prisoner is eaten by a plastic crocodile, guards are armed with toyguns, the governors car is a beaten up Simca 2000 and the costumes are a riot. Jess Franco himself, however, has the most memorable scene in the movie as he is sodomised by a black youth in his role as a slavetrader. The role as the prisonwarden is played by the late american transsexual actress Ajita Wilson.