Emanuelle fuga dall'inferno (1983)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Bruno Mattei

Writers:

Claudio Fragasso (writer)
Olivier Lefait (writer)

Release Date:

1985 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Tagline:

Makes "Scarface" look like a Sunday school picnic!

Plot:

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges...

Plot Keywords:

Corrupt Official | Reporter | Blood | Sixth Part | Female Frontal Nudity

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Emanuelle
Gabriele Tinti	...	Crazy Boy Henderson
Ursula Flores	...	Albina
Maria Romano	...	Laura
Antonella Giacomini	...	Irene
Raul Cabrera	...	Victor "Geronimo" Brain
Pierangelo Pozzato	...	Helmut "Blade" von Bauer
Robert Mura	...	Brett O'Hara
Michael Laurant	...	Prison Official
Françoise Perrot	...	Molly, the guard
Jacques Stany	...	District Attorney Robinson
Flo Astair		(as Flo Astaire)
Carlo De Mejo	...	Lawman Harrison
Franca Stoppi	...	Head Guard
Lorraine De Selle	...	Colleen, The Warden

Also Known As:

Emanuelle Escapes from Hell (Italy) (literal English title)
Emanuelle in Prison (UK) (DVD title)
I violenti (Italy)
Révolte au pénitencier de filles (France)
Women's Prison Massacre (USA)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:R (cut) | USA:Unrated (uncut) | France:-16

Filming Locations:

Incir De Paolis, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Beatrice Film

Quotes:

Albina: Take my advice and die!
Laura: I'll bite your nipples off!

Movie Connections:

Follows Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali (1977)

Put this Film Into Solitary Confinement

"Women's Prison Massacre" is the last of the "Black Emmanuelle" series of films and this time director Joe D'Amato abandons his trademark sleaze for an attempt at an exploitation flick with a plot.

Emmanuelle (Laura Gemser)has gotten a bit too close to exposing a corrupt government official during the course of her investigative journalism, and he has her sent to a vicious women's prison on trumped up charges. 4 dangerous male convicts (including Gemser's real life husband Gabriele Tinti) are transferred there to be held until their trials and manage to create jailbreak mayhem a nasty hostage showdown with police.

I really wanted to like this film, but I just couldn't do it. The plot is a fractured mess, the acting awful and this film is so evasively shot (not enough film or budget for much visual explanation or gore, I guess) that I didn't even know what was supposed to be happening in most of the sleazy scenes (the razor blade castration, horny female convicts ripping one of the guys apart) until I read the DVD liner notes. Also gorgeous Gemser keeps her clothes on the entire time, and the actresses who do disrobe are less than stunning.

3 stars, one for Laura Gemser having a genuine beauty and screen presence that deserves something better than this drivel, one was a whole lot of accidental comedy ("I'll bite your nipples off!" and the blow up doll are the first examples that come to mind), one for Lorraine De Salle sticking it out in a film where she looks extremely uncomfortable in every scene (as if she's ashamed of being in this throwaway, whimpering end to an otherwise fun series).