My review was written in September 1986 after a screening at UA Twin theater in Manhattan.
"Womens Prison Massacre" (sic) is a substandard Continental exploitation film first released domestically in May 1985. Originally titled "Emanuelle's Escape from Hell", picture was filmed back-to-back in Rome in 1982 with the 1984 release "Caged Women", featuring mainly the same cast.
Laura Gemser is Emanuelle, an undercover reporter in "Caged Women", but here unjustly incarcerated as a result of a frameup by the corrupt district attorney. Lorraine de Selle again plays the beautiful warden, but a low budget provides fewer than a dozen femme prisoners and only a couple of guards.
While Emanuelle and her two lesbian cellmates are warring with a feisty prisoner named Albina, four male prisoners led by Crazy Boy Henderson (Gabriele Tinti, Gemser's real-life husband) are delivered to the coed facility, and immediately take the warden as hostage and start a siege. The d.a. Shows up with lots of police leading to a hokey bloodbath and an unhappy, pointless ending of Emanuelle back in stir.
Though director Gilbert Roussel occasionally provides an interesting composition or lighting effect, the film is the usual mixture of sadism and titillation. Its best element is grotesque huor provided by the overacting, poorly dubbed thesps, especially one of Tinti's henchmen, who resembles comedian Mark Blankfield in rolling his eyes and pulling faces.
"Womens Prison Massacre" (sic) is a substandard Continental exploitation film first released domestically in May 1985. Originally titled "Emanuelle's Escape from Hell", picture was filmed back-to-back in Rome in 1982 with the 1984 release "Caged Women", featuring mainly the same cast.
Laura Gemser is Emanuelle, an undercover reporter in "Caged Women", but here unjustly incarcerated as a result of a frameup by the corrupt district attorney. Lorraine de Selle again plays the beautiful warden, but a low budget provides fewer than a dozen femme prisoners and only a couple of guards.
While Emanuelle and her two lesbian cellmates are warring with a feisty prisoner named Albina, four male prisoners led by Crazy Boy Henderson (Gabriele Tinti, Gemser's real-life husband) are delivered to the coed facility, and immediately take the warden as hostage and start a siege. The d.a. Shows up with lots of police leading to a hokey bloodbath and an unhappy, pointless ending of Emanuelle back in stir.
Though director Gilbert Roussel occasionally provides an interesting composition or lighting effect, the film is the usual mixture of sadism and titillation. Its best element is grotesque huor provided by the overacting, poorly dubbed thesps, especially one of Tinti's henchmen, who resembles comedian Mark Blankfield in rolling his eyes and pulling faces.