I watch a surprising amount of prison movies. It's not that I have any special affinity towards prison, but the setting makes for an easy method to tell tales of violence, drama, and survival against harsh odds often imposed by other people. Prison makes for an exploitative arena, though the films that focus on it, … Continue reading Scum (1979)
Yep, it's a movie about beautiful, scantily-clad women stuck behind bars in a place run by sadists and supplied by two horny dudes who really need to find a better line of work. Not for their sake, for the prisoners. Collier is thrown into a prison in an unnamed tropical country for murder, where she … Continue reading The Big Doll House (1971)
I so wanted this to be a Finnish attempt at Red Dawn. Just think, a bunch of American guerillas taking on the entire USSR, all on the snowy border with Russia. Sadly, we can't always get what we want, so instead of Red Dawn, this is a prison movie. A prison movie staring Chuck Norris' … Continue reading Born American (1986)
If your first thought from reading this title is, "Wait, they made four Bloodsport movies," congratulations, your brain is in perfect working order. Jean-Claude Van Damme had long since stopped appearing in them (he only did the first), so it was up to Daniel Bernhardt to suffer through these movies as the lead. The best … Continue reading Bloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite (1999)
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