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Caged Heat (Caged Females) (Renegade Girls) (1974)

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Considered the quintessential "girls in prison" flick of the 1970s, novice director Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat is set in a hellish American woman's penitentiary run by vicious, wheelchair-bound Barbara Steele. Statuesque convict Erica Gavin is forced to undergo horrible (but legal) tortures when she is falsely accused of trying to escape. Gavin and fellow con Juanita Brown decide to make a real break, but return to prison to rescue a friend who is about to be lobotomized by the sadistic prison

R, 1 hr. 25 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Cult Movies

Jonathan Demme

Jan 22, 2002

Concorde/New Horizons Home Video

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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (2) | DVD (5)

Jonathan Demme's debut film is campy, choppy, and generally immature, though his bonding themes are fitfully discernible amid the cartoonish action.

March 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Vibrant take on multicultural grindhouse sisterhood

November 27, 2011 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

Contains a skits-within-the-movie sequence that comments on the narrative while also exposing the artificiality, absudity and performance aspect of the 'Women in Prison' trend itself.

September 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Comment
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

An exciting film, and one that proves that even the most exploitative of films can make a relevant statement.

March 28, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's no more than passable as a thriller, but the density of invention and energy in other respects is enough to shame a dozen contemporary major studio movies.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Caged Heat is contractual exploitation, an example of Roger Corman's trademark bargain filmmaking with obligated nudity and violence.

April 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | Comment
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

The director's peppery edge and humour lift this above the normal drive-in fare and Steele adds punch.

August 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

an odd but compelling mish-mash of breast parade and hokey action . . . with dark and visceral imagery that lends "Caged Heat" more street cred than it would normally deserve.

March 18, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

You may have heard this was a cheeky women's-prison-movie spoof that's really clever. It's not.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
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One of the Women In Prison films to end all WiP films, this one is well worth tracking down and something that I'm very happy to have marked off the To-Watch Pile.One of Corman's more iconic releases, and written and directed by Oscar-winner Jonathan Demme, this one is also worth your time to see what a much lauded

January 10, 2012

I think I might have to watch this one again. I was not in the mood. Of course, I was secretly hoping that Pam Grier would appear, but that didn't pan out. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

May 5, 2007
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