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Undescribable Perfection

Such a frustrating disappointment

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Beautiful young American tourist Janet Cooper (incredibly buxom, shapely, and drop-dead gorgeous brunette knockout Pilar Orive) goes on vacation to a remote South American country. After being arrested by a corrupt cop and subsequently found guilty of a trumped-up charge involving possession of narcotics, Janet finds herself incarcerated at an isolated castle that serves as a hellish women's penitentiary. The brutal staff at said prison not only treat the inmates as their own sexual playthings, but also force the ladies into prostitution and even allow decadent rich folks to hunt them down in the wild like animals. Writer/director Leandro Lucchetti covers all the satisfyingly seamy chicks-in-chains grindhouse cinema bases: Abundant tasty gratuitous female nudity, sweaty'n'steamy soft-core sex scenes, a cheesy bar fight, lesbianism, fierce catfights, nude gals being drenched with a fire hose, a gloriously lurid sequence in which two dehydrated women lick the perspiration off of each other's bodies, and a raw'n'scuzzy tone that ensures things remain appropriately sordid and slimy throughout. Best of all, the delectable Mrs. Orive ain't the least bit bashful about baring her deliciously ripe body and spends at least 90% of her screen time in the buff. Veteran character actor Aldo Sambrell has a ball as the evil, leering, and sadistic Captain Juan. Elena Wiedermann likewise impresses with her twisted portrayal of depraved guard Gerda. Lanfranco Perini's funky-throbbing score does the groovy trick. Renato Doria's plain cinematography gives the picture a suitably rough and grainy look. A choice chunk of tawdry trash.

This film was released on NTSC VHS videotape in North America by Videoville Showtime Film Distribution in 1993 with the title ....Q.H.S....(QUARTIER HAUTE SECURITE POUR FEMMES) .....It had a small distribution in Quebec and the French speaking areas of Eastern Canada and the northeastern USA....There is no DVD version......It was released in French Language with no English Subtitles.....It is no longer In Print and is rarely seen in French Canadian video stores.....the Ex-Rentals are generally poor quality and and the original tape has often been replaced.....Best to find one with Good Picture Quality........It was released with a French language jacket with a photograph of a beautiful woman tied to a big X......Directed by Leandro Lucchetti and stars Pilar Orive, Isabel Lissobart, Elena Wiedermann....the run time of the North American release is 1 hour 30 minutes.....Extensive Female Nudity and Bizarre Sexual Situations........Caged Women - Le Prede Umane.......A prime example of a European "beautiful women-in-prison" film. This one is one of the best....A Good Italian Cult women-in-prison film...............Similar to the usual genre entries by the likes of Cirio H. Santiago, Jack Hill, or Jess Franco, the viewer is always aware that none of this is too serious ......Very beautiful women....well photographed....

Yes- this IS the best WIP film ever made. I know that Jess Franco did some hotties, but this take the genre Oscar for its combination of sensuality, brutality and downright steaminess.The UK censors murdered this film on certification, and many of us pondered long and hard what was behind the voids and sharp edits that their pointless activities had generated. It was released under the title "Caged Women", but is also known as "Caged - Le Prede Umane" and "QHS" (Quartier Haute Sécurité- French DVD title). It is the French title you need if you want to see this film in all its 90m uncut glory.Pilar Orive, a former Miss Spanish Basque Country, is utterly magnificent as the abused heroine. She is both Amazonian and completely transfixing, and it stirred my teenage heart (and other bits) when released in 1992. That she and many of the cast are stark naked throughout the film is a plus rather than any sort of negative.Its works for me- and I promise will work for you.....

A women in prison film for the low brow in us all.Woman is sent off to prison after rebuffing the advances of a sleazy guy who kidnaps her and sends her to the mountain top prison in some third world country. There the prisoners run around damn near naked as they are abused, raped and hunted by the staff. Meanwhile, the guy who did go home with the woman the night before tries to find out where she disappeared to.For the record I've seen this in two versions undubbed or subbed French version (this is the reason my plot summary is lacking in details) with all of the nudity, sex and violence intact and a Japanese import version in English with Japanese subtitles, shortened by 12 minutes and heavily fogged (which I shut off almost instantly because of the censoring). Given the choice I'd watch the fuller version I'm not sure what I think of this film. Its a good movie if you like these sort of things, but at the same time it seems to be be play acting and not too serious (I can't believe that the women's hair always look perfect). Its a weird feeling, it some how misses the grit and violence of say The Big Bird Cage or Caged Heat, and exists just for the titillation of the sleaze factor. I some how wanted more than just the scenes of naked women running in slow motion, soft-core bondage and trashy lesbianism. On some level its a women in prison film which wants to be something spicier, but no more offensive than the Man Shows girls on trampolines. I think I missed the strong take no crap stands of the women in the Roger Corman produced films of the early 70's.Its not bad, but given the chance I'd probably go with the earlier films (though this does have some classic exploitation scenes including the one with the two women are thrown in a cage in the hot sun with no source of water). If you like women in prison films I'd say try it, though you'll remember the pieces more than the whole.