'You'll have to kill me District Attorney, because when I am free, I will expose you for what you really are... bastard.'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World.
‘I’d like to bite your nipples off’
We’re looking at 1983’s Women’s Prison Massacre.
‘Poor Fools’
A vague sequel to the Black Emanuelle series and belated entry in the women behind bars exploitation sub-genre
directed by Dark Corners regular Bruno Mattei,
who starts off all arty.
It’s Chicago!
Let’s meet the characters
‘Laura’s who I am, of the snake mask.'
Imaginative.
‘Irene is who I am. Irene the slut, filthy slut Irene.’
Less imaginative.
‘My name is Emanuelle and I’m a woman.’
Ran out of ideas quickly there.
This opening is from a play being staged in the prison,
'But that's not what matters now.'
I quite like that. The inmates feel differently.
'Instead of our applause, they deserve this...'
#PRISON FIGHT!#
Did everyone bring a salad with them?
The play was written by Emanuelle and the warden is also not a fan.
'I will not ask you to give me an explanation for this filthy rubbish.'
Boy could that apply to the film itself.
We know what these films are about sex...
‘Let me introduce you to Bobby Saloni’
And violence.
'We'll see about that.'
#I would have added in some female tennis grunting to this scene to really show the battle between Black Emanuelle and rival Albina... oh she's Albino... guess opposites don't attract.#
Ever since we let them watch Over The Top it’s been an epidemic of arm wrestling.
'Stop it! ‘Haven’t you had enough violence?’
Emmanuelle’s adversary is Albina, and their conflict...
#angry internal scream#
is established with typical subtlety.
‘I hate you!’
Boiling over to a yard fight...
It's just possible she saw it coming.
There’s also the obligatory washroom scene,
although even here this prison’s all about pushing the boundaries of live performance.
#Much praise for whoever recognises these famous prison numbers#
If it provokes a response.
But there’s more to Emanuelle’s story.
‘Someone’s gunning for me, I’m certain of it.’
Why? Can someone tell me the backstory in one line?
‘You were investigating a case of stolen drugs just when you were framed and arrested, weren’t you Emanuelle?'
Thanks. A corrupt politician is responsible for Emmanuelle’s incarnation.
‘Infact if he doesn’t get me first, I swear I’ll destroy him.’
and he now sends four male murderers to the women’s prison.
‘They’re due to arrive at the Santa Marta prison anytime now to await sentence.’
Notably Crazy Boy.
‘You can never be sure how the ending will turn out until the enemy is buried.’
A nickname he’s had at least 20 years.
And to be honest, he’s saner than his friends.
'Alight don't try any silly tricks.'
#Crazy laughter like you might here from Nicolas Cage playing the Joker#
Now, I assumed this was the politician’s plan to deal with Emanuelle, who is still a risk to him.
Do a deal with Crazy Middle-aged Man so he kills her.
But at the prison, they take two guards hostage.
‘Drop the gun you stupid bastard or we’ll ring the necks of these two whores like a couple of chickens.’
He’s not backing down.
'You're responsible for this.'
Oh, now she’s dead you hand over the gun.
Now, at the start of the film there is a certain amount of exploitationess.
‘It’s packed with violence and sex’
Alongside the theatre.
But with the introduction of the men, this becomes a different movie,
and one we’re not going to dwell on because,
as they wait for their demands to be met, the men take advantage of the captive population.
Some of whom seem delighted to see them.
Others less so, one woman taking extraordinary revenge that we can’t even hint at on Youtube,
you’ll have to join us on Patreon if you want to know more but, trust me, you don’t want to know more.
‘Sounds like fun guys.’
That’s all that happens in the second third of the film,
culminating in a forced game of Russian roulette between Emmanuelle and Albina.
All that antagonism set up and that’s how it ends.
What about the politician?
‘My God, Emanuelle, alive after all.’
He’s here too.
'You better not shoot or I'll blast them to hell.'
Another plotline satisfactorily concluded.
Speaking of; the getaway car has been tampered with, leading to a high speed foot chase.
Looks like the finishing line of a zombie triathlon, until…
‘Now at last you and I are equally matched against each other’
A climax this has in no way been building to, that doesn’t involve the lead character.
‘Now you’re being stupid’
Okay, I think it goes without saying this is a nasty movie that has no business existing,
but that to one side, the story does irritate me.
Like I said, I thought Crazy Boy was being used to kill Emanuelle – he’s not.
‘What’s going on?’
The only reason for putting 4 dangerous psychopaths in a medium security women’s prison is;
well, the title says massacre, it’s not going to just happen by itself.
Halfway through, this stops being Emanuelle’s story.
All the stuff set-up in the first half hour.
‘I’ll get you in the end.’
...goes nowhere, most notably; Emmanuelle’s play.
‘But if the script is not changed then I shall have to forbid it. The show must not go on.’
That’s the film I want to see.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; you can have sex, violence and a story,
exploitation doesn’t have to be plotless.
It just always is.
'What I don't understand is how you can suffer it.'
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