From the fevered, wonderfully perverted minds of Spanish
filmmaker Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich (JACK THE RIPPER)
comes the notorious women-in-prison shocker WOMEN IN CELLBLOCK 9 (aka Frauen
für 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.