Caged Heat Review
The award-winning director of Silence of the Lambs began his career, as have many of today's hottest filmmakers, working for Roger_Corman's New World Pictures. This film, produced by Demme's wife Evelyn_Purcell, is one of the best of the tacky women's prison subgenre. Erica_Gavin is sent up the river on a trumped-up charge, only to go through the usual degradations at the hands of her fellow prisoners and wheelchair-bound warden McQueen (cult queen Barbara_Steele). Steele has a bizarre cabaret-style fantasy sequence that is the film's highlight, and there are enough catfights, molestations, and other indignities to keep fans happy. Well-paced and cleverly written, the film also looks good thanks to the work of award-winning cinematographer Tak_Fujimoto. Robert Firsching, Rovi
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