Review of Women's Prison Massacre (1983) by The M — 07 Feb 2009

Another grease epic from legendary Italian exploitation director Bruno Mattei. This film fucking rocks! It is fast paced, violent, sleazy and looks very professional; cinematorgraphically it looks better than most films 100 to 400 times its budget. Easily, one of the best WIP films I ever seen. It is an unusual entry in the genre in that it has a really intelligent script with an intriguing plot with several clever and unexpected twists. Also, the film features a range of goofy characters, different from the stock personalities one is used to seeing in WIP films. The German murderer is particularly interesting, he deliverys some excellent & deliberately comic pantomine. And of course we have the lovely Italian exploitation queen Laura Gemser, looking smoking sexy as always, and delivering a very soulful performance, in this film she excells at delivering haunting experssions of torment. The film is fuelled by a pounding 80s synth & drums score. The editing is slick, fast paced, and even delirious at times. It is wonderfully un-PC by today's standards, and that's what I love about this type of cinema, it harks back to an age when we weren't monitored by a bunch of politically correct, leftie killjoys, an age when men could be men, express male thought without having a bunch of ugly, sex hating radical leftie feminists wanting to purge anything relating to testosteron.

All in all, a rocking good exploitation film, a blast from the first moment to the last. Bruno Mattei really blew some life into a genre which was (at this point in time, i.e. 84, anyway) rather tired.