Director Brunello Rondi, who created the uncompromising and starkly beautiful neo-realist horror film The Demon (1963) starring Daliah Lavi and Frank Wolff, had fallen a couple of steps down the exploitation ladder since that artistic benchmark when he helmed this deliciously trashy women-in-prison picture. French Martine Brochard (A Man Called Blade), Italian Marilu Tolo (Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot!) and Spanish Cristina Galbo (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue) were all old hands at extreme genre films, and flesh out the main roles in this wild and wooly extravaganza of violence and sleaze. French tourist Martine gets framed on a phony drug charge while vacationing in Italy and is thrown into a melee of sordid female penitentiary hijinks, culminating in – you guessed it – a riot! Supremely entertaining.
Marc Edward Heuck discusses Sex Life in a Women’s Prison on the New Beverly blog.
