Beaten! Shackled! Raped! Just Another Day In Cellblock 9 From the fevered, wonderfully perverted minds of Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich comes the notorious women-in-prison shocker Women in Cellblock 9 (aka Frauen fur Zellenblock 9 and Tropical Inferno). The controversial film (it was and remains banned in the U.K.) stars Franco regulars Susan Hemingway, Howard Vernon and Karine Gambier and tells the tale of a gaggle of female freedom-fighters who are taken to a secluded women's jungle prison where they endure all manner of violent and sexual humiliations. Like all of the productions in the prolific Franco/Dietrich collaborative cannon (most of which are represented in Full Moon's limited edition Jess Franco DVD Collection), Women in Cellblock 9 is a visually lush, erotic and explicit exploitation masterwork, armed with exotic locations, weird performances and a great, dreamy score by composer Walter Baumgartner. Full Moon is proud to present this revered Jess Franco classic in a digitally remastered and restored and completely uncut transfer struck directly from Dietrich's own archival negative. Not for the easily offended (but what Franco film is?), Women in Cellblock 9 is an essential trash movie gem not to be missed! Special Features: Franco, Bloody Franco: Audio Interview With Jess Franco (French With English Subtitles) Vintage VHS Franco Trailer Reel
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Movie
Love classic movie. It’s a lot interesting and many scenes and actions too
R**Y
Typical euro sexploitation
Beautiful women in prison being exploited while naked running through a jungle
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BUYERS BEWARE BLANK DISK
Buyers beware. This dvd is a blank disk, no readable content. And I would send a picture of my Blu-ray players message, but you require access to my files. I purchased this dvd from HARVEST MOON LLC. They want me pay to return a blank disk!? I'll just absorb the loss($18+) and NEVER do business with them again.
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Exploitation and nudity a great WIP combo.
A good women in prison film.Exploitation,nudity,Karin Gambier NUDE throughout the film.The torture scenes are bad, but tame by today's standards.
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Unsteady picture
Picture skipped or scenes repeated in multiple places. Movie seems out of sync near the end.
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Female Trouble
Women in Cellblock 9 (also known as “Tropical Inferno”) is exactly what you might expect – late 70's european pulp cinema with lots of nudity and plenty of stylised violence. Noted euro starlet Karine Gambier features in this Jess Franco sleaze-fest – made for notorious and apparently conscience-free Swiss producer Erwin Dietrich, as does the beautiful Susan Hemingway (star of Franco’s “Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun”).This is a “Women in Prison” film about female South American revolutionaries thrown into the clink and into the clutches of the prison’s female commandant and her right-hand man, torture specialist Dr. Costa (genre legend Howard Vernon). Somewhat ridiculous interrogation sessions ensue, information is revealed under duress and the women must then escape and warn their compatriots. This is essentially a parade of nubile female flesh (nothing wrong with that!), but I sometimes wish Franco had just tried a bit harder in general.There is slightly (ever so slightly) more substance to this Franco outing than many of his WIP films from this era. It looks a little “bigger” than his usual exploitation quickies and features a reasonably large number of (occasionally confused-looking) extras. The legendary Howard Vernon delivers a believably sordid performance as a piece of human filth, the women all look beautiful and there is at least some semblance of a plot.The Blu-ray looks awesome but it is essentially featureless – you get seven tailers for similarly off-kilter Franco outings and that’s it. If you already own this on DVD, the Blu-ray doesn’t contain anything new. If you’ve never seen a Franco WIP movie, this may well be a good place to start – just don’t complain too much if you hate it or I’ll send Dr.Costa after you![Note: This film is collectable because it was refused classification in the UK and remains officially unreleased there as of this writing (2015)].
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Five Stars
Yes women in cell block 9 met my expectations thank u
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Too expensive on Amazon.
The transfer is fairly decent. Comes with an alternate cover without the rating sticker.
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