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16 out of 20 people found the following review useful:
One of the Greatest!, 7 October 1999
Author: Dolemite-19 from US

Every once in a while there are films that come along and enlighten us. For some it was ET for others it was Gone With the Wind and for me it was Women's Prison Massacre! I Felt moved just by picking up the box at the video store. This movie has everything sleaze, torture, sex, rape, throat ripping, violence, forced suicide, more sleaze, more sex, more torture, and more bullet hits then Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs put together. When the credits rolled tears fell from my eyes. Bravo! Bravo! I love this movie!!

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13 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
Unbelievable Italian women-in-prison epic, 15 October 2000

Author: Casey-52 from DVD Drive-In

Bruno Mattei strikes again! After initiating me into his bad movie universe with HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, Mattei once again makes me a full-fledged fan of his with BLADE VIOLENT, one of two back-to-back women-in-prison epics starring Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti and Lorraine de Selle.

BLADE VIOLENT starts with an odd montage of stage scenes with three female prisoners describing themselves. It then escalates into an all-out brawl between prisoners, establishing Emanuelle (the sexy Laura Gemser) as the heroine and Albina as the villain. The warden (Lorraine de Selle) and the guards side with Albina on every issue, as she doesn't incite the other inmates to revolt. Emanuelle, it is revealed, was blackmailed for drug possession by a politician and she vows vengeance. Meanwhile, four convicts on their way to death row (led by Gabriele Tinti) are involved in a police chase and are put in the womens' prison for a short period of time. They manage to take the warden and a guard hostage and demand money. And that's the plot in a nutshell. In-between the actual plot are lesbian scenes, sex with the convicts, an arm-wrestling scene between Emanuelle and Albina, a chicken fight with switchblades, a deadly game of Russian roulette, a necrophiliac fantasy, a convict eating the neck of a guard, a SWAT team member videotaping a bloody shootout, and a female inmate putting a razorblade in her vagina so that one of the convicts slices his penis in half when he tries to rape her! AMAZING STUFF!

Laura Gemser, not known for her acting talents, displays some true acting chops here. Unusual, huh? Lorraine de Selle, who was excellent in CANNIBAL FEROX, has nothing to do here. The woman who plays Albina is amazing when she's clenching her teeth and being bitchy (every scene). BLADE VIOLENT is one hell of a movie and is 100% entertaining! One qualm with the film: the Goblin-inspired synthesizer score gets old after a while, but provides for some great sleazy atmosphere in some scenes.

BLADE VIOLENT is on video in the US as WOMENS' PRISON MASSACRE, not CAGED WOMEN. CAGED WOMEN (or VIOLENT IN A WOMENS' PRISON) is a totally different Mattei film with the same cast, shot back-to-back with this one. Both are great, but this one is a bit better. Watch it if you find it, you will never forget it!

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7 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
CAGED WOMEN strike again, 8 June 2000

Author: rduchmann from United States

This film has been identified in some secondary sources as an alternate title for the one released in US as CAGED WOMEN but they are in fact different, though not *too* different. For the greater part, WIP fans do prefer "the mixture, as before," without innovations, though it helps if there is a plot more coherent than the average Jess Franco production.

In this outing, Laura Gemser is not Emanuelle, doing undercover journalism at a prison, but rather a hard con doing time. Lorraine de Selle is still on staff and still has that hooker underwear she modeled in CAGED WOMEN, and best of all, the haystack hair blonde and skinny teenish brunette are both doing 20-life here too. The blonde looks as if she's eaten a little lasagna since the previous picture. Her opening scene finds her wearing nothing but *tight* kini panties, over which her tummy roll hangs enticingly. Wow! (scene is 'way too short.)

Here, dangerous male cons are temporarily housed in the women's lockup, but they get loose and a riot ensues -- at least when they're not having sex with horny femme cons who haven't seen a man since the Aldo Moro administration. No shower scene in my video copy, which is always a drawback, though it does feature a weird theatrical presentation by the inmates, for the inmates. (And you thought WEEDS was an original idea!) OK of its type.

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8 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Mattei's weirdest (and possibly best) film, 22 December 2001

Author: Michael A. Martinez (aylmer666@juno.com) from Los Angeles, CA

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This is really a tough movie to forget, and surprisingly easy to watch considering how trashy and low-tech it is. Basically, Mattei uses his same grimy super-low-budget look as he did in NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES and RATS: NIGHTS OF TERROR. However, in this film, much like it's predecessor CAGED WOMEN, this trashy look actually really helps it out, evoking some odd sort of fantastical feel to a usually mundane setting.

The movie takes place in a women's penitentiary, but I honestly doubt any women's prison was ever in any way like it is presented. The convicts are almost all at least decent-looking and are a little too keen on fighting each other or having pseudo-lesbian exchanges, every-time showing off a little more than their panties for the camera. The one-up this film has over CAGED WOMEN is the fact that it actually has something resembling a plot as well as some pretty hard-edged violence. Four male prisoners (led by Gabriele Tinti, the only good actor of the group) take over the women's prison and proceed to terrorize the locals. The acting and music are a little less polished (read, pretty darn bad) but they actually really add to the atmosphere of the whole thing.

I really enjoyed the quasi-utopic view of the four male prisoners basically having everything they want right at their fingertips (much like how the four survivors in DAWN OF THE DEAD had everything they wanted within an abandoned shopping mall). All four of the men are sick, depraved perverts and are in the most condusive environment possible for their sort of behavior. Just imagine what happens when you put sex-starved male convicts together with sex-starved female convicts? (A pretty good idea for a movie!) It's also funny to see a lot of fairly classy actors basically making fools of themselves. Lorraine De Selle looks extremely uncomfortable, as does Carlo De Mejo in his last major role.

My only big complaint is that the good characters get killed off way too quickly and stupidly. The goofy guy who keeps the razor blade in his teeth seems to get the most horrible death imaginable, even though he was the most likable of the four male convicts, go figure. The ending is a little hard to decipher as well. Hats off to Mattei though, as his editing has never really looked better. There's also some surprisingly stylish sequences near the beginning and ending of the film, notably the oddly-lit Theater sequence and the flashback montage, which is aided greatly by Luigi Ceccarelli's simplistic synthesizer music. It's a pretty good film overall, surprisingly, if one takes into account the budget (or lack there-of) involved.

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9 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
No typical "Black Emanuelle" sleaze here, but nonetheless GREAT exploitation-movie!, 27 January 2006

Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

In the short period of only one year, the infamous Italian director Bruno Mattei directed TWO films in the "Black Emanuelle"-series starring Laura Gemser that are both set inside the walls of women's prison. Yet, the 1982 film "Caged Women" differs a lot from this "Women's Prison Massacre", and the latter one doesn't even fully belongs in the entirely on sex revolving Emanuelle-cycle, anyway. "Women's Prison Massacre" is a truly brutal and shocking exploitation effort that seemly only carries the popular "Emanuelle"-label because it's a lot easier to promote the film that way! In case you're hoping to see another truckload of pointless sleaze, you'll be sorely disappointed, but in pretty much every other case, you're more likely to be very surprised by this exciting exploitation adventure! Instead of serving the same old and repetitive dish of whipping lesbian guards and helplessly abused prisoners, Mattei brings a versatile story that mainly revolves on 4 dangerously insane male criminals that take hostage over a female prison where they rape, torture and violate the inmates as well as their corrupt guards. Their main interest is the beautiful reporter Emanuelle, who's an innocent girl among a sick bunch of power-mad inmates. "Women's Prison Massacre" is an outrageous movie that covers pretty much every topic that exploitation fans want to see! Mattei's budget possibilities obviously were rather limited and therefore the film doesn't contain much gore, but it surely suggests a lot of sadism and stages several genuine shock-moments (like the tense Russian roulette-sequence, for example). Lead star Laura Gemser keeps her clothes on throughout the entire film (which must be a personal record for her), but for those who can't do without a minimal amount of nudity, there are multiple other gorgeous-looking actresses that go all the way, like Maria Romano Antonella Giacomini. The prison location works well and the script features many ingenious little ideas, like the razor blade payback (ouch!) and the aforementioned Russian roulette game. The ending comes a bit abrupt, though, and the recent DVD-release contains a lot of fuzzy and seemly ancient editing. This is definitely Bruno Mattei's best film and possibly even the finest "Women-in-Prison" flick ever. Highly recommended to cult fanatics and other sick puppies.

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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Wow! Sleazy, Cheesy, and Hysterical, 20 April 2005

Author: shark-43 from L.A. CA

This movie is a hoot. I was lucky enough to just see it on the "big screen" at a revival house and the audience loved laughing at the absurd plot and over the top violence, the brutal sex scenes and some of the worst acting ever. Not to be surprised though - the film is co-written by Claudio Fragasso who wrote and directed one of the greatest bad movies EVER --- Troll 2. This movie has an actor playing a psycho killer named Blade and this guy looks like a thin Bobcat Goldwhait but he overacts more than anyone I have ever seen. I mean, Harpo Marx is subtle compared to this guy. It has to be seen to be believed. Wow!

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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
The last "Black Emanuelle" film..., 25 February 2003
Author: CFVimports from United States

This is in fact part of the "Black Emanuelle" series. Not that the series had any continuity from one film to the next anyway. In this, the last of the series, Emanuelle (Gemser) is wrongfully imprisoned because she was on the brink of exposing criminal activity in the local police department. There is a flashback sequence which explains this. How anyone could watch this film and NOT notice this, saying it is NOT an Emanuelle movie is beyond me. In the opening scene the prison holds a stage play of monologues where each girl tells her name and story. Gemser's character clearly states "My name is Emanuelle, and I am a woman." I sincerely hope that the people who are leaving comments about films on the database have at least SEEN the films they are talking about. Unless of course they're just seeing some edited US video release.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Vegetables, vultures and violence, 3 July 2008
Author: sheenafilm from Hamburg, Germany

"Emanuelle in Prison" is rather a variation than a sequel to „Violenza in un carcere femminile": even though Laura Gemser plays the same part as Emanuelle, Gabriele Tinti plays the leader of the criminals now, without any connection to „Violenza..." where he played the doctor. Anyhow, Emanuelle performs a theater play at prison in such a boring manner that inmates throw rotten tomatoes at her. Nevertheless, she still seems somewhat too popular to the guards. They are trying to humiliate Emanuelle, but their efforts fail, she's got nerves of steel and experience from the previous flick. The situation at the prison changes radically when armed male prisoners attack the guards and take control. The prison is besieged, and it's time to kill... Nothing special for the genre, in fact a bit lackluster, but the haunting soundtrack by Luigi Ceccarelli deserves mentioning; it reminded me stylistically (not quality-wise) a bit of Keith Emerson's compositions for Argento's „Inferno".

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Excellent Emanuelle / WIP sleaze from Bruno Mattei, 15 April 2007
Author: Rapeman from New Zealand

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Emanuelle Escapes from Hell is a classic Italian WIP flick with lashings of the old ultra-violence and loads of nudity & sleaze. This is one of trash auteur Bruno Mattei's many collaborations with Eurosleaze superstar Laura Gemser and a sequel to his previous Emanuelle film Violence in a Women's Prison (aka Emanuelle Reports from a Women's Prison).

The film opens with a strange, almost avant garde play being performed by Emanuelle and her two friends to the rest of the prisoners, they have face-paint on and their faces are lit with a luminous green light as they describe themselves (their characters?) in bizarre prose to the audience. Suddenly it breaks into a frenzied riot when Warden suck-up, Albina starts insulting the play and bombarding the actors with rotten tomatoes. Eventually we come to learn that Emanuelle is incarcerated because she was in the process of uncovering a corrupt government official's involvement in a drug smuggling ring and was framed for possession of drugs then sentenced to 5 years in prison.

She is intensely disliked by sadistic warden Colleen (Lorraine De Selle - Cannibal Ferox, Violence in a Women's Prison, The House on the Edge of the Park) and her equally cruel guards, as well as by the warden's pet prisoner - the aptly named (due to her Albino-ish looks) Albina. Subsequently we see Emanuelle on the receiving end of plenty of beatings, an attempted drowning, and threatened with a switchblade by these corrupt prison officials. Meanwhile, four convicts being transported to death row arrive at the prison to be housed temporarily. The convicts, lead by Italian exploitation regular and Gemser's real-life husband Gabriele Tinti, manage to escape and overrun the prison then take the warden hostage. Here the fun escalates - the men run wild, raping the female prisoners and shooting anyone in their way. In one scene the most psychotic of the bunch, the razor-wielding Blade, forces two lesbian lovers to dance with their male blow-up doll Bobby(?!) before violating them. Later on after her lover is killed by him, the other lesbian hides his dropped razor in her snatch and seduces him, resulting in one mutilated penis!

Overall, this is one fun little flick and a stellar effort from Bruno Mattei. There's plenty of the mandatory WIP sleaze - lesbianism, rapes, beatings, some vicious cat fights, the odd bit of gore, and a classic game of Russian roulette where the losers brains end up splattered all over Gabriele Tinti's face!

Strangely enough, Gemser manages not to lose her clothes for the entire duration of the film, but there's plenty of other naked bodies on display for all you perverts. The first half of the film is straight-up WIP goodness, while the second half is more of a escaped-convicts-on-the-rampage type scenario but still excellent nonetheless. 8/10

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Good in prison exploitation horror..., 8 October 2009

Author: MovieGuy01 from United Kingdom

I thought that Emanuelle In Prison was a good exploitation horror. It is about a woman called Emmanuelle who is a reporter, she manages to expose a corrupt official,and she is sent to prison on charges. what she does not know is that in the prison, the inmates are humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. one of the prison staff Albina who runs the prison. makes an enemy out of Emanuelle. Emanuelle and Albina start to fight each other with knives. There is a lot of blood in the movie as well as Strong Violence, Female Nudity and Lesbianism. I think that there is a very sleazy feel to the film. Which made it a good film to be able to watch.

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