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Speaking of trashy movies and Jess Franco... anybody know a movie called Women in Cellblock 9? Lots of people claim Sadomania or Barbed Wire Dolls as Mr. Franco's darkest and most perverse WIP films. Bullshit. Cellblock 9 is the money. If far from the best WIP film around, but if you just want GIMP oriented pornography, its about as good as the genre gets. It's brutal, simple, and completely hot, and it doesn't go into Mr. Franco's usual (endearing, but distracting) artsy pseudo-surrealism when the sex and violence are onscreen. It's an ugly movie about nasty things happening to beautiful women, and it's as direct and explicit as Franco ever got.
The film starts with a truck transporting female prisoners to a prison in a Latin American Jungle. Among the prisoners, three European-looking girls stick out. They are rebels who are headed off to be tortured for information. We get to the camp and meet the an old torturer (played by Franco regular Howard Vernon) who wonders if he's still "got it." He does. Oh, boy, does he ever.
The torture scenes are the main event, but there are nice, longing shots of the sweaty beauties standing around in chains that are worth the price of admission all by themselves. You sympathize and fear for these poor girls, but lord-a-mighty you are excited about the hell they're about to go through. The movie ends with a great escape sequence. You get to enjoy watching them run naked through the jungle, and you get to feel the tension mount as the baddies close in on them.
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