Escape From Women's Prison (1974)

Director - Giovanni Brusadori



"They're Bustin' Out!"

I'll say.

Four political prisoners escape from the big house, high jack a charter bus full of 18 year old tennis playing chicks then it's a home invasion on the judge who put them behind bars. The jailbait is locked up in the basement, but they're in mini-skirts and naturally the tops start flying off. The tough convict broads go about raping any and all other females and males in this fancy mansion, run around with guns, use foul language, and so on and so forth.

It's nothing special, girls with armpit hair take back their freedom while beating the shit out of dudes all the while their shirts are off. Other chicks get smacked around, again just tons...tons of rape. Suddenly the movie turns into a hostage kinda flick, a dude pisses his pants, the girls get even more naked, and of course a dude gets fed dog food by one of the bad ass chicks.

This is a weird movie. It saw a DVD release as a double feature disc, paired with Deported Women of the SS (1976) and it's pretty much only lived on in that format for while. I however tracked down this VHS copy at Ron's Coin and Book in Yakima, Washington last week. That place is where I first bought Fulci's Zombie 2 back in middle school, it's an institution and I can trace back a lot of my life through that crappy store. Anyway the VHS is just awful, there is a high pitched "hummmmm, weeeeeee, hummmm" throughout the entire god damned movie but I couldn't not watch this great piece of cinema. This is the Videoline VHS, and in a twist of fate the "Crazy Mike's Video" sticker is still on the tape with the 2612 W. Nob Hill address (one of the 2 video stores in Yakima that I grew up going to about once a week. I've been working at one of the only surviving Crazy Mike's Video stores for the past 4 years here in Bellingham, WA) and if they used our color coding system the orange dot on the tape indicates this video would have been found in the "Drama" section at the Nob Hill store. Ha. Probably rented really well there.

It's not exactly a Women-in-Prison movie as it is a tough chicks kind of movie. There aren't any prison scenes it mostly takes place at this mansion. It's really bad, but if you're looking for gratuitous nudity, absurd editing ("GET BACK HERE! Me? I'm Hungry" aaaaaaand fade to black? What the fuck?), and some decent girl on girl fights/soft core then this is really the movie for you...and me. Only bummer is the run time, it's 100 minutes. No thanks. Cut and dry movie, you get what you get, hence why this review is so short. More movies of this ilk should be like this.

6/10