The Naked Cage

Although it is written and directed by Bill Milling it's already been redone before. With a new cast and a new lead starring Sharri Shattuck she's put into a women's prison for a crime she did not commit. Only then to experience corruption as well as the same antagonistic girl who placed her there in the first place. One of her many problems is that the warden is gay and expects favors who allows a sadistic officer to do anything he wants. This movie has many flaws and has been done before with Pam Grier and so forth. It's not 100 perdcent exploitive even though it was nothing more an excuse but a vehicle to show naked girls.

Paul Nicholas directed and wrote Chained Heat - and Julie Darling - so The Naked Cage feels like a ribfest play, going back to play the hits. Michelle (Shari Shattuck, who shows up in some of the worst - and I mean best - movies of the 80s video horror era like Uninvited and Death Spa) has left the farm for the city to work at a bank just in time for her ex-husband Willy (John Terlesky, the second person to play Deathstalker) and his prison lady Rita (Christina Whitaker) to try to knock it over. They take Michelle hostage, Willy gets shot and somehow, the police take Rita's word that our heroine was part of the robbery and that's how we get to, well, The Naked Cage. Of course, Rita ends up in the same jail, which is a hell hole were all the prisoners wear their own versions of the uniform which doesn't make it a uniform when you think about it. Angel Tompkins (The Teacher) is the warden who, of course, is corrupt. Luckily for Michelle, she's in for bank robbery, which wins her some points with her fellow inmates instead of making her fresh meat. As for me, I'm happy that Lisa London - who was in Guns and Savage Beach - and Leslie Scarborough from Stewardess School are in this, because it reminds me that instead of using my mental acuity for doing something that means something for the world, I can instead instantly recall actresses from movies I saw on Cinemax thirty years ago. Also: Carole Ita White, who played Trouble, is like a WIP lifer. Se was also Cheeks in The Concrete Jungle, Spider in Chained Heat, Ms. Jenkins in Savage Streets (not WIP but so close) and Nurse Turner in Hellhole. One has to wonder how the Fabulous Thunderbirds felt about "Tough Enough" being in this movie. I'd like to think they loved WIP films. Right? That song was in every movie that was filmed in 1986, including Gung Ho, Wise Guys, The Money Pit, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ruthless Peopleand Tough Guys.

Nothing like a big hair prison girl film. Michelle (Shari Shattuck) is wrongfully convicted and is forced to three years (90 minutes real time) to be in a woman's prison with a lesbian warden, raping guards, and girl gangs. There are better prison girl films out there. This is also part of a dvd multi-pack. Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, nudity (Shari Shattuck, Lisa London, Valerie McIntosh, Stacey Shaffer, Angel Tompkins, Christina Whitaker, Aude Charles

After reading the reviews, I thought I would give it a chance and ended up regretting it almost instantly. The acting is terrible, especially the extras, who seem to have no clue what to do in the big fight scenes. The characters are stale and have no depth and the interesting scenes are far too short. Give it a miss. There are much better things to do with your life.

I have watched many films set in prisons, the ones with females have the best story lines for me. There will be several spoilers ahead so here goes: A young woman named Michelle living in the country first appears to be in an idyllic life but then we find out she has to cope with an on/off boyfriend who is addicted to drugs called Willy. Willy soon meets Rita a strong and confident woman who manipulates him into trouble resulting in him agreeing to rob the bank in which Michelle works. The robbery goes horribly wrong when the police arrive and after a brief car chase Willy is killed and both guilty Rita and innocent Michelle end up in different prisons. This is only the beginning of the nightmare that Michelle is about to face as whilst in prison she meets top dog Sheila, drug addict Amy, the bitchy lesbian warden and rapist Smiley. Various dramas happen until Rita,who is out for revenge is transferred to the same prison as Michelle causing further problems. There is not much i can fault this film for apart from its depiction of some of the nasty things that are portrayed such as racism,segregation,rape and a brutal murder of one of the female prisoners near the end of the film although these topics are what makes the film memorable. I enjoyed both the roles of Michelle (Shari Shattuck) and Rita (Christina Whitaker) for different reasons Rita because she was cruel,calculating,direct and an outright bitch and Michelle because she was caring,sweet although naive but quickly switched on her survival instincts whenever she needed to. I would give this film 8 out of 10!

A young woman (Shari Shattuck) is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities. When you sit down to watch a women in prison movie, you already expect it to be exploitation all the way, with gratuitous nudity and very likely a girl-on-girl sex scene or two. While this film certainly does that, it is a little less blatant and for that it maybe deserves a little credit. Not that this is good. The basic plot point is that a woman kidnapped at a bank gets sent to prison for the robbery she had no part of. This really makes no sense, but because it jumps from the cops showing up directly to the prison, we never see how such bungling could occur.

"The Naked Cage" is not a classic female prison movie but it is a pretty good one. The story is not original in any way but there are enough dreamy prisoners in various stages of dress to make it a pretty fun watch.

I was really surprised. What could you expect of a movie named "the Naked Cage", produced by Cannon Group and Golan-Globus Company? I myself was expecting crap, but it was fine. This film depicts prison for women and terrible things happening there. Michelle is falsely accused in a bank robbery, and goes to prison where she faces a lot of cruelty and horrible things. Worth watching this movie.

Sweet young innocent Michelle (a winningly perky performance by gorgeous blonde Shari Shattuck) gets sent to a brutal women's penitentiary on a trumped-up bank robbery charge. While serving hard time in the joint Michelle runs afoul of both mean corrupt warden Diane (veteran B-movie actress Angel Tompkins in peak ruthless form) and ferocious predator Rita (essayed with lip-smacking wicked relish by the foxy Christina Whitaker). Writer/director Paul Nicholas tells the entertainingly trashy story at a brisk pace and maintains a perfectly seamy tone throughout. Moreover, Nicholas does an ace job of covering all the satisfyingly scuzzy babes-behind bars bases: A generous amount of tasty gratuitous female nudity, lesbianism, a group shower set piece (natch), a leering pervert racist rapist guard (a deliciously disgusting portrayal by Nick Benedict), a few fierce catfights, and the inevitable climactic riot. This movie further benefits from sound work by Lucinda Crosby as eager rookie guard Rhonda, Stacey Shaffer as friendly and spunky ex-junkie Amy, John Terlesky as Michelle's wormy sleazeball boyfriend Willy, Faith Minton as fearsome top con Sheila, and Aude Charles as tough black inmate ringleader Brenda. Hal Trussell's glossy cinematography provides an appropriately glittery sheen. Christopher L. Stone's syncopated score hits the funky pulsating spot. Recommended viewing for fans of this ever-worthwhile exploitation cinema sub-genre.

Standard fare about female criminals and a female penitentiary certainly doesn't have the best acting in the world and relies heavily on predictable material. Why bother?