Women in Fury

Women In Fury

Genre: Exploitation, Women in Prison

Original title: Femmine in fuga

AKA: Jailbreakin' Women

Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini

Year: 1985

Covering for her brother, who killed a Brazilian drug lord, Angela Duvall is sent to a women's prison. Trapped behind bars, Angela's beauty excites the passions in her fellow prisoners and the guards alike. Unfortunately, she also catches the eye of a group of inmates who work for the man her brother murdered.

Soon after filming the entertaining Cannibal Adventure picture Massacre in Dinosaur Valley director Michele Massimo Tarantini was off to Brazil to shoot this trashy Women In Prison flick, Women In Fury. He also took with him a handful of the cast from his previous picture including Brazilian beauty Suzane Carvalho.

Carvalho plays our lead girl named Angela who has covered for her brothers murder thinking she would only receive a lenient jail sentence, a big mistake, she gets 18 years & prison is no place for a good looking girl. 

This is Carvalho's final acting credit as she took the surprising career path of becoming a race-car driver! She would go on to be a champion in South America in Formula 3.

Shot on location in Brazil the film plays out for the first half as your typical Woman In Prison B-movie flick with the usual traits including sexual discrimination, beatings, gratuitous nudity & of course, lesbianism. Despite these strong themes the film never feels too sleazy or mean spirited as it's shot more for entertainment rather than shock or titillation. You get plenty of big characters that are all overacting to grab screen-time including a Pam Grier lookalike & a character I'll refer to as 'Big Momma', I think you get the picture! Here our innocent jail-bird is subjected to several types of abuse, she's hosed down (as an excuse to shot wet breasts!), whipped with wet towels & sexually abused (as an excuse to shot wet breasts) & forced into a lesbian scene with a prison guard. After 45 minutes of this I was becoming tired of the setting so thankfully the film moved into a new direction.

That's one women I wouldn't want to share a cell with.

After a Dr suspects that Angela may be innocent he puts pressure on the prison guards to do something about it, they don't take nicely to his interference & decide to have her killed off by giving another inmate a knife. When its time to attack 'Big Momma' steps in and decapitates the women! It really caught me out by surprise as I never expected it to go that far. This leads to the prisoners rioting & attacking the guards, they acquire their guns and attempt to escape. This follows with a shoot-out againt the army but eventually a handful (including Angela) break free and make a run for it in the Brazilian jungle. The girls struggle with the terrain & fight amongst themselves as the army close in on the girls.

It was a much welcomed change of scenery & nice idea to get the film out of the prison, it gave the filmmakers an excuse to have some more action orientated scenes with snakes, shoot-outs & also helped to stop the film becoming tiresome.

Women In Prison flicks usually aren't my cup of tea at all. The limited setting of the prison usually prevents there being much in the way of action & usually are just an excuse to show trashy sexual orientated stuff without much in the way of substance so it was nice to see one that took the action out of the prison to give the film a little variation. 

Having said that, the action scenes are poorly shot and lack the excitement which perhaps they should of had. Also, with it's hour and forty minute running time it could of done with 10-15 minutes trimmed off to keep it a much tighter picture. Still Women In Fury is a mildly entertaining flick, if you love yourself a WIP movie then I'd imagine you'd be satisfied with  this. Though for me it's the kind of flick I'll find an easy watch & be kind of enjoying at the time but will have forgotten about by the next day.

Rating: ★★½

I think you can figure out where that stick is going to end up.