Oh, well... Here in my region (Northeast of Brazil), there is a popular term used to refer to something with a very low quality: PEBA. And I think that it is the ideal adjective to describe this. Yes, this is an extremely "peba" movie!
Poor Ajita Wilson. After a few years enjoying kind of a stardom in the sexploitation circuit (her notoriety was such that she was considered for a role in Fellini's "La Città Delle Donne"), the Venus of Ebano had her career severely damaged as a result of some scandals and bad choices in the early 80s. Thus, in the final chapter of her life in show business (1983-1985), she was almost only cast for hardcore porn, with the exception of two ultra cheap Italian woman-in-prison productions shot back-to-back by a certain Gianni Siragusa (who?). One of them is this "Detenute Violente".
Although the print I watched was with terrible quality (the original widescreen aspect ratio was clearly cropped to adjust to a full screen presentation), it is possible to note that little to nothing can be saved here. The atrocious English audio matches very well with the total lack of talent of the cast. Ok, Rita Silva as the sadistic lesbian warden is not that terrible, and Ajita's magnetism compensate her modest acting skill, but all the remaining members of the cast can't even breath in a convincing way! I will give a credit to the protagonist, Linda Jones, only for her exhuberant face
The premise could have resulted in an interesting WIP film: Jones plays a woman whose sister was killed in what was considered an accident, but she believes it was a murder. After knowing the only witness of the tragic event was arrested, our heroine decides to enter the prison passing for a inmate in the hope of having access to the witness and eventually discover the name of her sister's killer. However, the cruel warden makes things very difficult.
All the clichés of the genre are here: the torture of prisoners, a corrupt governor, lots of badly simulated lesbian sex etc. This is not a problem when we have as director a master like Jess Franco, but the complete ineptitude of Siragusa makes the experience of watching this film painful. I don't know if we can consider there was a director here. Everything seems improvised by the cast, and the aesthetic of a poor telefilm rules. The mediocre music is so repetitive and sometimes out of place that gets annoying.
A curious detail is that in her sex scenes, Rita Silva is always with her panties on, while the other actresses have no problem in being fully naked. Well, perhaps the cruel lesbian warden still had some prudishness.
Poor Ajita Wilson. After a few years enjoying kind of a stardom in the sexploitation circuit (her notoriety was such that she was considered for a role in Fellini's "La Città Delle Donne"), the Venus of Ebano had her career severely damaged as a result of some scandals and bad choices in the early 80s. Thus, in the final chapter of her life in show business (1983-1985), she was almost only cast for hardcore porn, with the exception of two ultra cheap Italian woman-in-prison productions shot back-to-back by a certain Gianni Siragusa (who?). One of them is this "Detenute Violente".
Although the print I watched was with terrible quality (the original widescreen aspect ratio was clearly cropped to adjust to a full screen presentation), it is possible to note that little to nothing can be saved here. The atrocious English audio matches very well with the total lack of talent of the cast. Ok, Rita Silva as the sadistic lesbian warden is not that terrible, and Ajita's magnetism compensate her modest acting skill, but all the remaining members of the cast can't even breath in a convincing way! I will give a credit to the protagonist, Linda Jones, only for her exhuberant face
The premise could have resulted in an interesting WIP film: Jones plays a woman whose sister was killed in what was considered an accident, but she believes it was a murder. After knowing the only witness of the tragic event was arrested, our heroine decides to enter the prison passing for a inmate in the hope of having access to the witness and eventually discover the name of her sister's killer. However, the cruel warden makes things very difficult.
All the clichés of the genre are here: the torture of prisoners, a corrupt governor, lots of badly simulated lesbian sex etc. This is not a problem when we have as director a master like Jess Franco, but the complete ineptitude of Siragusa makes the experience of watching this film painful. I don't know if we can consider there was a director here. Everything seems improvised by the cast, and the aesthetic of a poor telefilm rules. The mediocre music is so repetitive and sometimes out of place that gets annoying.
A curious detail is that in her sex scenes, Rita Silva is always with her panties on, while the other actresses have no problem in being fully naked. Well, perhaps the cruel lesbian warden still had some prudishness.