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What if—and I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out—womanhood itself is a cage?
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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It's just as wacko as its sisters in the genre, but somehow it's just not as fun. Takes a couple bizarre, serious turns, that make it hard to have fun with it. It's exploitation to the highest degree, but it needs to be more entertaining. Though if you're a fan of Big Doll House, most of the cast is reunited here.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/27/19
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Carol 'Jeff' Jeffries (Jennifer Gan) is set up by her boyfriend, Rudy (Charlie Davao). Jeff doesn't realize that Rudy runs a ship-board prostitution, gambling and drug dealing empire. Rudy sees the heat closing in on him and stashes his illegal goods in poor Jeff's purse. Thrown into a harsh prison, Jeff encounters Alabama (Pam Grier), a sadistic lesbian guard fond of torture. Cellmate Stokes (Roberta Collins) is a heroin addict who agrees to a plot against Jeff that will secure her more heroin. Another cell mate Sandy (Judith M. Brown) also agrees to a plot against Jeff that could secure her own release. Their other cellmate Theresa (Sofia Moran) is Alabama's girlfriend. Jeff endures a horrible experience made worse by her cellmates as she struggles day to day. Finally realizing her boyfriend is not helping her, Jeff hopes to escape through the jungle. She then learns that local poachers are paid to track and kill escapees, who inevitably become lost in the wilds surrounding the prison. When Theresa falls out of favor with Alabama and loses her privileged position in the cell block, escape becomes an attractive option to her. Theresa reveals that she knows the jungle well and can obtain outside help. Despite the fact that two of her three cellmates had previously agreed to covert plots against Jeff, all three of them accompany her on the escape...
"Women In Cages" is an early 70s exploitation women in prison flick. This is pretty poor in terms of production values, acting and then there´s the fact that women are abused in all sorts of ways in the movie. We see stabbings, nudity, violence, torture, rape and lesbian love in a mix with uneven and poor editing as the icing on the cake. I reckon classic topics in the genre. The genre itself is "special" to say the least, and it truly feels like something in the past these days. Why did I see "Women In Cages"? The beautiful, underrated, strong and will powered Pam Grier is my answer. Despite the fact that she is "evil" in this one.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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Superior WIP film, and one of the first to kick off the genre's popularity at the outset of the 1970s. Some unique casting adds interest as Pam Grier plays the sadistic warden while personal favorite Roberta Collins, frequently the sympathetic cellmate, is the conniving junkie with orders to kill the new girl! That new girl is Jeff (<i>Jeff?!?</i>) played by Jennifer Gan whose acting credits are limited, mostly bit parts on TV, and don't extend beyond 1972. And for a very good reason too: she's absolutely terrible! Probably the worst acting I have seen in the genre, and these roles aren't honeypots for the next Charlize Theron. So she's a significant drag factor, but Collins & Grier keep the ship from sinking while showing some boobie among the showerings, stabbings, riotings, plottings, escapings, and torturings on the Wheel Of Misfortune. In all, a gritty guilty pleasure good time.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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This is the weakest of Rodger Corman's "Women in Prison" series with Pam Grier. The story is weak and the acting is bad. There are plenty of nude women. Pam Grier's prison guard uniform is ugly. The props are fake looking and the bloody makeup is just red streaks painted on the girls bodies. The whole premise of the story of four American girls in a Philippine prison seems unlikely. And for a Philippine prison to have a black American woman from Harlem as the head matron is also kind of far fetched. Despite the name of the movie, the women spend most of the time in a prison cell and are never placed in any cages like the one shown on the cover of the DVD box. The movie's story made it seem like there was a Philippine mafia that controlled the country. When this movie was made Marcos was dictator of the Philippine Islands and controlled everything in the country with an iron fist. If the Marcos government wanted to throw a drug smuggler into prison they wouldn't need his girlfriend to testify against him. They'd just frame him and send him to prison.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Pure genius its like an episode of Prisoner Cell Block H on acid. Serious twitch off Pam Frier as the sadistic head screw with a taste for the female prisoner.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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