Year: 1983 Duration: 01:35:58 Directed by: Paul Nicolas Actors: Linda Blair, Sybil Danning, John Vernon, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson, Susan Meschner Language: English Country: USA West Germany Also known as: Das Frauenlager, Cadenas calientes, Correntes do Inferno, Les anges du mal Description: Young girl Carol was sent to the women’s prison for car accident in which she was guilty. In prison, she has a hard time – the prisoners are divided into warring racial groups, and the prison is totally corrupted.
But in order to save their asses all women are united. Review: There are good movies. There are bad movies. And then there’s Chained Heat, a women in prison epic so stupefyingly out of whack from its opening frames that words can’t describe it. Only the shakiest thread of a plot runs through this insane, darkly lit chunk of exploitation excess, crammed to the corners with a cast of drive-in veterans and every possible cliche you can imagine, driven to its silliest extremes. Steamy showers, prison riots, rapist guards, evil wardens yup, it’s all here, but you’ve never seen it like this.
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Sweet little Carol (Linda Blair, doing nudity for the first time) is on her way to the slammer for a few months after accidentally running someone over with her car. The world behind bars is controlled by two gangs, one white (led by the amazing Sybil Danning as Ericka) and one black (led by Cleopatra Jones herself, Tamara Dobson, as Duchess). Carol rebuffs Ericka’s advances in the shower (where you can also catch a full frontal appearance by Russ Meyer vet Edy Williams), leading to heightened tensions and more than a few ladies being tossed into solitary. Meanwhile the corrupt warden (John Vernon, who’s no stranger to embarrassment) tapes homemade porn flicks with his female prisoners in his office jacuzzi (huh?). “Don’t call me warden, call me Fellini,” he purrs to one unlucky lady as the film stumbles towards its unlikely climax. Then there’s the stern prison matron (Stella Stevens) and the drug-and-hooker dealing guard Lester (Henry Silva), both of whom become involved before Carol decides to blow the lid off the whole corrupt system. While it’s hard to pick a highlight in a film so packed with hilarious moments of sleaze, one can only wonder what Blair (not at her slimmest here) was thinking as the filmmakers primped her up as a luscious sex symbol.
Her shower scene with Danning has become the stuff of legend, and rightfully so, but virtually every scene will have viewers clutching their heads trying to make sense of it all.
Contents. Plot Carol Henderson is an immature and naive teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison for killing a man by accident after. Once she arrives, she meets the vicious and perverted Warden Backman. She also encounters the two kingpin prisoners, Ericka and Duchess , who are the leaders of factions in the facility's seething racial tensions.
There are also the drug-dealing lesbian rapists and the prostitutes, who answer to the warden's assistant, Captain Taylor. In the meantime, Taylor's lover is clandestinely having an affair with Ericka.
When the facility's corrupt administration goes too far, racial considerations are put aside as convicts of all colors and nationalities band together to fight them. Reception Chained Heat opened on May 27, 1983 in 404 theaters nationwide and made $2,252,682 in its opening weekend. The film was in theaters for two and a half weeks in total. As of 2009, the film's domestic gross is $6,149,983. During its release the film came under fire heavily from critics for its sexism and from gay rights activists for negative and stereotypical portrayals of lesbians as being violent and predatory. Chained Heat 's current rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 56% positive reviews. Chained Heat was produced for $950,000.
The film was nominated for two including Worst Actress for Blair and won Worst Supporting Actress for Danning. Chained Heat (as a slightly shorter edited version) has been available in a DVD box set with and released in December, 2008.
Sequels In 1993 the sequel Chained Heat II, starring, and was released. The film was directed by and released in. This was followed by the 1998 release of Chained Heat 3: Hell Mountain.
Chained Heat 1983 Movie
The film starred, and and was directed by from a screenplay. Both sequels bear little to no relation to the first film.
Cast Actor Role Carol Warden Backman Ericka Dutchess Capt. Taylor Val Lester Paula Kaufman Bubbles Martin Lulu References.