Caged Heat (Caged Females) (Renegade Girls) Reviews
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
An exciting film, and one that proves that even the most exploitative of films can make a relevant statement.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Jonathan Demme's debut film is campy, choppy, and generally immature, though his bonding themes are fitfully discernible amid the cartoonish action.
Time Out
Top CriticIt'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.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Caged Heat is contractual exploitation, an example of Roger Corman's trademark bargain filmmaking with obligated nudity and violence.
Film4
The director's peppery edge and humour lift this above the normal drive-in fare and Steele adds punch.
eFilmCritic.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Filmcritic.com
You may have heard this was a cheeky women's-prison-movie spoof that's really clever. It's not.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
