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\"\"Chained Heat <\/strong>(1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jensen Farley\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 88 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, violence, rape, full frontal nudity, sex, drug use, racial comments)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Paul Nicolas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Aaron Butler (Vincent Mongol) and Paul Nicolas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joseph Conlan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Mac Ahlberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 27, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Henry Silva, Sharon Hughes, Susan Mechner, Greta Blackburn, Robert Miano, Edy Williams, Jennifer Ashley, Kendal Kaldwell, Dee Biederbeck, Leila Chrystie, Jody Medford, Louisa Moritz, Nita Talbot, Michael Callan, Mae Campbell, Monique Gabrielle, Carol White, Irwin Keyes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $6.1M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Yes, I freely admit it. I like WIP (Women in Prison) movies. They\u2019re an integral part of exploitation cinema. Titles like The Big Doll House (and the sequel The Big Bird Cage), Black Mama, White Mama and Caged Heat are classics of the subgenre. Chained Heat<\/strong> is the mother of all women\u2019s prison movies! Check out the awesome cast- Linda Blair (Savage Streets), John Vernon (Animal House), Sybil Danning (Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf), Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones), Stella Stevens (The Poseidon Adventure), Henry Silva (Sharky\u2019s Machine), Louisa Moritz (Death Race 2000), Nita Talbot (Frightmare), Monique Gabrielle (Deathstalker II), Carol Ita White (The Concrete Jungle)\u00a0 and Irwin Keyes (The Exterminator). Chained Heat<\/strong> also includes all the usual elements of the subgenre- fights, lesbianism, nudity, a hot shower scene, corrupt guards, perverted warden, drugs, prostitution, rape, racial tensions and a riot. It\u2019s a lot of fun provided you like this kind of movie.<\/p>\n

Carol Henderson (Blair), sentenced to 18 months for a fatal car accident, is new to the penal system. I\u2019m guessing she\u2019s never seen any of the above mentioned movies either as she\u2019s constantly surprised by the sleazy goings-on in her new digs. Just moments after being processed, she witnesses a racially motivated attack and gets accosted by queen bee prisoner Ericka (Danning). The warden (Vernon) has a hot tub in his office and gets off on taping his sexual encounters with inmates. The warden\u2019s assistant Captain Taylor (Stevens) and her slimy accomplice Lester (Silva) smuggle drugs in and inmates out for purposes of prostitution.<\/p>\n

Racial tensions get worse after the attack on the black inmate while she\u2019s being transferred to an all-white cell block. Queen bee Duchess (Dobson) demands to know who did it. Taylor wants the warden\u2019s job and will do anything to achieve this goal. This, of course, includes murder. As is prone to happen in situations like this, things go too far. The inmates put their differences aside and band together to bring down the corrupt administration. This entails getting an incriminating videotape in the hands of the people investigating the facility.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to recently come across an uncut copy of Chained Heat<\/strong>. For years, the only version available on DVD was an 88-minute cut with all the good stuff (i.e. all the nudity and girl-on-girl action, the hook murder scene) cut out. Where\u2019s the fun in that? It\u2019s a WIP movie! Those are essential elements. The two rape scenes (including the one involving Blair and Vernon) are also fully restored. This is the version I remember watching on VHS in November 1985 (around the same time I saw The Concrete Jungle). I wanted to see it at the movies, but it was a parental OMDB (Over My Dead Body) title so I had to content myself with seeing Flashdance with my dad that day instead.<\/p>\n

Chained Heat<\/strong> is epic! The cast is a virtual who\u2019s who of B-movies. Blair is awesome as the na\u00efve young prisoner who discovers her inner bad ass. Vernon, with whom Linda would reunite in 1984\u2019s Savage Streets, makes a great sleazy villain. The statuesque Danning is smoking HOT! Dobson (in her final theatrical feature) is totally bad ass. She gets off one of the film\u2019s best lines when she calls Danning a \u201cchalk-faced whore\u201d. Stevens camps it up to the skies as the antagonistic Taylor. It\u2019s always a pleasure seeing Silva play a villain. Monique Gabrielle does what she does best, gets naked. One of my favorite character actresses, Carole Ita White (listed in the credits as Carol White), plays Spider, a lesbian inmate with a violent streak. Although her part is small, she definitely stands out. I love seeing her in exploitation flicks. The late Irwin Keyes shows up briefly as Lester\u2019s driver. I could go on and on about the cast of Chained Heat<\/strong>. It\u2019s pure coolness.<\/p>\n

The storyline isn\u2019t all that different from other WIP movies. The situations and character types are pretty much the same. Director Paul Nicholas (The Naked Cage) adds neat little touches like the punk rock girl dancing like nobody\u2019s watching in the waiting cage. Chained Heat<\/strong> is well made and a lot of campy fun. I think it\u2019s great! Great in terms of trash cinema, that is. It\u2019s most definitely trashy. It\u2019s also sleazy, violent and perverted. That\u2019s what I love about it. It doesn\u2019t even try and pretend it\u2019s anything else. Realism definitely doesn\u2019t factor into the equation. If it did, I\u2019d be asking if prison inmates in the 80s had access to mousse and hair stylists. Nicolas understands what fans of the subgenre expect and gives it to them. It isn\u2019t art in the traditional sense of the word; it\u2019s its own kind of art. You can\u2019t fault an artist for staying true to form and genre.<\/p>\n

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