unwatchedBamboo House of Dolls
1973 · 110m
Shaw Brothers takes on the WIP film. As strange a combination as it sounds.
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obscureBare Behind Bars
1980 · Brazil · 95m
Brazil's Boca do Lixo does women-in-prison with everything the drive-in cut left out.
obscureHouse of Whipcord
1974 · UK · 102m
Pete Walker builds a secret prison to punish the censors who wanted one. Sheila Keith is the nightmare.
▶ watchcultFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
1972 · Japan · 90m
Ito's second, and the most formally daring film in the whole category.
▶ watchcultWomen in Cages
1971 · USA · 81m
Pam Grier as the sadist for once. Bleaker than its stablemates.
▶ watchcultFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
1973 · Japan · 87m
Ito's last. Kaji drags a severed arm through Tokyo in the opening minutes.
▶ watch⊘ bannedcultLove Camp 7
1969 · USA · 96m
The film that invented nazisploitation six years before Ilsa made it a genre.
▶ watchcultThe Big Bird Cage
1972 · USA · 96m
Funnier and better than the first. Sid Haig is having an excellent time.
cultBarbed Wire Dolls
1976 · CH · 81m
Jess Franco's contribution to the cycle. Cheap, delirious and utterly shameless, even for him.
cultChained Heat
1983 · USA/West Germany · 99m
Linda Blair goes to prison. A sleazy 80s update of the formula, with a corrupt warden and a hot tub.
▶ watchcultReform School Girls
1986 · USA · 94m
The women-in-prison film as its own punchline, fronted by the lead singer of the Plasmatics.
▶ watchcultThe Big Doll House
1971 · USA · 95m
Jack Hill and Pam Grier invent the modern formula in the Philippines.
▶ watchcultFemale Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1972 · Japan · 87m
Sold as a women-in-prison quickie. Shot like an art film. Meiko Kaji barely blinks.
▶ watchcultBlack Mama White Mama
1972 · USA · 87m
The Defiant Ones with Pam Grier, shot in the Philippines by a Filipino who actually knew the terrain.
▶ watchcultWomen's Prison Massacre
1983 · Italy/France · 88m
Late Italian entry. Laura Gemser, and a body count instead of a plot.
▶ watchcult99 Women
1968 · West Germany/Italy · 99m
Franco doing the formula early, with Mercedes McCambridge as the warden.
cultIlsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
1976 · Canada · 94m
Same Ilsa, new empire. The harem keeps the whip, loses the swastika.
▶ watchknownCaged Heat
1974 · USA · 83m
Jonathan Demme's debut, and it is visibly a Jonathan Demme film.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownIlsa, She-Wolf of the SS
1975 · USA/Canada · 97m
Shot on the leftover Hogan's Heroes set. Nothing here is defensible; it's catalogued, not recommended.