99 Women

Aroview: Fiery, if comparatively contained first-time outing for cult dir. Jess Franco in the ‘women in prison’ genre: a rowdy sexploitation romp through a slammer of sadistic captors, flesh and bloodletting, and the inevitable inmate uprising.

Drop-dead gorgeous Maria Rohm stars as an innocent imprisoned and at the mercy of a tyrant prison warden (a camp Mercedes McCambridge!), and while this isn’t without sophisticated flourishes, Franco’s hot and heavy sleaze-o-vision means the film regularly perspires caged heat.

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