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11 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
An embarrassment, a fraud, a hack job....take your pick, 13 May 2007

Author: gridoon

I have this obscure movie on VHS and the cover features Linda Blair in a revealing outfit, holding a machine gun. In the actual movie, she does hold (and fire) a machine gun, BUT: A) Her outfit is a formal dress under a fur coat, B) Her part is a 5-minute cameo (plus a few lines of narration). The rest of "Savage Island" consists of copied-and-pasted footage from TWO Italian/Spanish Women-In-Prison films, one of which I've seen ("Escape from Hell") and one I haven't ("Orinoco - Prison of Sex"). The result is, as you might expect, a complete mess. There is no continuity between the scenes, sometimes even between the shots. 2 women start fighting dressed, in the next shot they are naked (because a lesbian scene in-between has been omitted). In one shot it is night, in the next shot it is day. In one shot the prisoners are in a circle, in the next shot they have formed lines. There are TWO different prison wardens, and the SAME female guard gets killed twice. It's all quite laughable and shameless. Rating: 0 out of 4 stars, pushed up to 0.5 because Linda Blair with a machine gun is sexy.

6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Escape from THIS hell., 13 May 2007

Author: haildevilman from Tokyo, Japan

Escape From Hell??? Prison Of Sex??? Which is it???

This movie su-u-u-u-u-u-u-cked!

Take Linda Blair, put her in furs, have her cap a security guy, (A slumming Penn Jillete.) then put her face to face with a sleazy diamond merchant/slave farm owner. It must have sounded cool at one point.

Both of the early films that were ripped off, and had the Blair footage wrapped around, seemed like passable entertainment. But this horrid mess must have been made as a joke.

No coherence. Characters switching on and off at will. Seemingly endless shots of chicks in jungle gear sweating and running before dying. That does get boring when done wrong. And this was WRONG.

And who/where was that sneering voice coming from? (" Come on! You gotta WOOORRRKKK!!!!")

The late Leon Askin (Gen. Burkhalter in "Hogan's Heroes.") was the lone watchable one. His brief scenes seemed like the only serious ones.

Crap!

9 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
"Quit your blubbering!", 2 June 2001

Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Rightfully atrocious. "Orinoco-Prison Of Sex" (a.k.a. "Escape From Hell") was an Italian-Spanish women-as-slaves-on-a-South-American-island-who-revolt thing, brought stateside in 1985, christened with a new title and spiced with fresh footage of Linda Blair as a vengeful "ex-employee". Those looking for some hot nude scenes and/or violent confrontations between sexy women in loincloths are bound to be disappointed (the Italian footage is dark, muddy, and un-erotic--not to mention coy, it cuts away at the best parts). As for Blair, she's amusing wrapped in cheap fur, packing heat and ordering her former captor around with a snarl. But, alas, Linda is once again stuck in a turkey. NO STARS from ****

5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Rip-off on "Escape from Hell", to avoid at all cost!, 11 December 1998

Author: Artemis-9 from Portugal

If you are into women-in-prison films, "Escape from Hell" in any good copy near the 89 minute Italian/Spanish original, would entitle you to watch the most erotic, and violent, nude lesbian fight - for possession of the third girl in a cell, between black Ajita Wilson and queen-bee Cintia Lodetti; and a gun duel between the same black fugitive and a Nazi female warden (Christina Lay?) to a mutual gory death. Both fights are at close quarters, and filmed in crude detail, which explains so many "director's cuts" of this film, for different markets.

3 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
"Smooth as silk...", 22 July 1999
Author: gantz girle from Isle of Rhodes

"...You're going to remember this for a long time." And I have! Going back a few years, when I must have been so bored as to rent the most ridiculous, low budget films, this gem was etched in my mind. It's full of poorly done over-dubs. Hilarious! "I have some lovely letters and postcards from the outside world. How they ever found their way here is beyond me." Savage beach! A must not rent!

-GG

0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Women in Prison Hack Job, 24 October 2011
Author: peace63 from Valencia, Spain

Linda Blair walks into the opening scenes, where she finds the owner of the prison where her sister was killed. Leon Askin, formerly of Hogan's Heroes, happens to be the wealthy and malevolent head of the evil empire. After Linda Blair shoots her way into his office, she then explains why she wants to get revenge on Askin, and there is where the actual cut and paste film begins.

Savage Island is three movies. The Linda Blair/Leon Askin scenes at the beginning and at the end; the Escape From Hell footage; and the Orinoco footage. The footage from the two European prison movies is all spliced together so that I had no idea who was killing whom, and why some people seem to be coming back after they are dead. It is a very bad hack job.

There is some standard topless scenes (spliced in), and a few of the women in prison shoving and fighting. All the more salacious material was left out of the movie. This is a very boring and soft-core entry in the Prison Women genre. It is not worth watching, not even if you are a die-hard fan of Linda Blair or Hogan's Heroes.

0 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Its takes the best and sleaziest moments of two unrelated women in jungle prison films and combines them, 5 January 2010

Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Patchwork women in prison film was made from combining two Euro shockers with some new unrelated footage. The new footage has Linda Blair (who shoots security guard Penn Jillette in an blink and you'll miss it role) going to confront the man who runs a mine in the jungles of South America where women are abused and forced to dig for gems. Blair says she was one of the girls in the camp and once we get the confrontation the film flashes back to a group of women going to the island and being abused.

This is an okay film with some stand out moments. Its very much of its type with all sorts of abuse heaped upon women who eventually revolt and then make a made dash into the jungle, however there are a few moments where the film creates some genuine tension and creepiness that lift it a bit above the typical voyeuristic level that these films normally operate on. Of course its not high enough to make this something you'd want to watch with your mom (unless she liked these sort of films) but if you're in a mood for this sort of thing you could do worse.

4 out of 20 people found the following review useful:
A masterpiece to treasure for eternity, 20 October 2001

Author: sickcritik (sickcritik@hotmail.com)

Everything in this movie is simply perfect. The script is excellent, what about the acting, it is so good. One of the most innovative movie of all-time. So many great scenes after another. Shower scenes a million times better than Psycho.

Excellent

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