Hellhole Women (1981)

In all the annals of exploitation cinema, there has never been anything quite like it: Take a luscious young bride (beautiful Playboy centerfold Ursula Fellner) thrust into a brutal prison ... See full summary »

Director:

Jesús Franco (as Jess Franco)

Writers:

Jesús Franco (screenplay), Günter Ebert (screenplay) (as Gunter Ebert)

Stars:

Ajita Wilson, Andrea Guzon, Ursula Buchfellner

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ajita Wilson	...	Magda Hurtado / Man Having Sex with Lucas
Andrea Guzon	...	Mercedes Llorens 'Coñito' (as Andrea Guzzon)
Ursula Buchfellner	...	Tara Lindberg (as Ursula Fellner)
Antonio Mayans	...	Governor Mendoza (as Robert Foster)
Uta Koepke	...	Olga Kowalski
Ángel Caballero	...	Michael Gordon
Gina Janssen	...	Loba Mendoza (as Gina Jansen)
Otto Retzer	...	Mario
Tania Sandoval	...	Miriam
Diana Capdevila	...	Head wardess
Jesús Franco	...	Lucas
Consuelo Tejera
María del Carmen González
Patricia Quow	...	Juna
María Encarna Tejera

Storyline

In all the annals of exploitation cinema, there has never been anything quite like it: Take a luscious young bride (beautiful Playboy centerfold Ursula Fellner) thrust into a brutal prison camp run by a sadistic woman warden (the stunning transsexual adult film star Ajita Wilson). Add generous helpings of lesbian lust, bestial perversion and some very extreme violence. Then mix in a jaw-dropping performance by the films controversial director as a degenerate white slaver. Do you dare take a forbidden taste of the wildest women-in-prison movie ever made?

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Plot Keywords:

female full frontal nudity | transsexual | female nudity | black woman murdered | black woman | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Spain West Germany

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

27 March 1981 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Hellhole Women

Filming Locations:

Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 32,984,708 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Plata Films S.A., Lisa-Film, Gold Internacional Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

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.

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Goofs

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.

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Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob: Brutes and Savages (2009)

User Reviews

More food for thought as the Samaritan Jess Franco continues to show the horror of women's prisons...ho hum

Even though it's not a real word, the title pretty much sums this one up completely. Sadomania is yet another exploitation 'women in prison' film from the insatiable Jess Franco. I certainly don't have a problem with this sort of film in theory; I mean, who wouldn't want to see a bunch of naked lesbians having sex with each other inside a sleazy prison? But the fact is that these films are often really boring, and once you've seen one - you've seen them all. This one actually has a base plot, and it focuses on a couple of newly weds who get pulled over. She gets thrown into a lesbian jail, and he gets set free! (Sounds a bit unfair to me, who's going to cook his dinner?). After that, it's business as usual as the clothes budget was so miniscule that Franco couldn't afford to have his performers wear much; so everyone appears naked, while a few set pieces that involve a woman being 'hunted' and various other sleazy goings on populate the rest of the movie. I actually managed to get myself a copy of the 'uncut' version, which runs at a massive 102 minutes. As usual, a lot of this movie is filler that could have been cut but, I suppose, for what it is; Sadomania isn't a terrible film.