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
doctor. Then they stage a robbery, only to find a group of male robbers at the bank ahead of them. A final shootout in the prison yards brings the film to a bloody climax. Caged Heat was also released under the title Renegade Girls. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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.
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.
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.
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
director did in the early days of his career.Give it a rental.
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.
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