Emanuelle Escapes from Hell
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Emanuelle Escapes from Hell (Italian
: Emanuelle fuga dall'inferno), also known as Women's Prison Massacre, Blade Violent, and Emanuelle in Prison is a 1983 Italian
women in prison film directed by Bruno Mattei
and starring Laura Gemser
, Gabriele Tinti, Carlo De Mejo, Lorraine De Selle, and Franca Stoppi. The film was written and co-directed by Claudio Fragasso
(a longtime Mattei collaborator), and was shot in 1982 with a mostly French crew. The film has achieved a certain level of cult status recently due to its exploitive nature, extreme violence, and cheesy dialog.
Following a series of cat fights and arguments the women's lives are interrupted by the arrival of four male death row inmates led by "Crazy Boy" Henderson, who break into the prison. The male convicts proceed to rape, mutilate, and torture the female inmates (involving a sick game of Russian roulette), and executions. One convict is killed when a SWAT team attempts to invade the prison. Another is killed by a female inmate who hides a razor blade inside her vagina before enticing him to have his way with her. Henderson and the remaining male con attempt to break out using the warden, Emanuelle, and a wounded sheriff as human shields. After a gory finale, Emanuelle and the sheriff are the only characters left alive, and the sheriff promises to reopen her case.
Although the film contains scenes of violence, these are portrayed in an over the top cartoonish manner, something Mattei did regularly with his other films throughout the 1980s.
Italian language
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: Emanuelle fuga dall'inferno), also known as Women's Prison Massacre, Blade Violent, and Emanuelle in Prison is a 1983 Italian
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women in prison film directed by Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei was an Italian film director, screenwriter and editor who gained a cult following for a wide variety of exploitation films that covered many genres, ranging from women in prison to zombie films...
and starring Laura Gemser
Laura Gemser
Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films.Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most...
, Gabriele Tinti, Carlo De Mejo, Lorraine De Selle, and Franca Stoppi. The film was written and co-directed by Claudio Fragasso
Claudio Fragasso
Claudio Fragasso is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films.- Filmmaking history :...
(a longtime Mattei collaborator), and was shot in 1982 with a mostly French crew. The film has achieved a certain level of cult status recently due to its exploitive nature, extreme violence, and cheesy dialog.
Plot
Emanuelle is sent to a violent women's prison. While she is in prison, she comes into confrontation with the "top dog" inmate Albina, ending in a series of fights. Albina gets the worse of it, including a broken arm, a knife in her leg, and her wig pulled off.Following a series of cat fights and arguments the women's lives are interrupted by the arrival of four male death row inmates led by "Crazy Boy" Henderson, who break into the prison. The male convicts proceed to rape, mutilate, and torture the female inmates (involving a sick game of Russian roulette), and executions. One convict is killed when a SWAT team attempts to invade the prison. Another is killed by a female inmate who hides a razor blade inside her vagina before enticing him to have his way with her. Henderson and the remaining male con attempt to break out using the warden, Emanuelle, and a wounded sheriff as human shields. After a gory finale, Emanuelle and the sheriff are the only characters left alive, and the sheriff promises to reopen her case.
Although the film contains scenes of violence, these are portrayed in an over the top cartoonish manner, something Mattei did regularly with his other films throughout the 1980s.
Other information
- Filmed back to back with Emanuelle in Prison (1982) A.K.A. Caged Women (1982).
- Shot on a budget of $60,000.
- Protagonist "Emanuelle" (Laura GemserLaura GemserLaurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films.Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most...
) and antagonist "Crazy Boy Henderson" (Gabriele Tinti) were married in real life at the time. Tinti's voice for the English version was supplied by Ted RusoffTed RusoffTed Rusoff is an Canadian actor, voice dubbing artist and dubbing director known for his extensive work in the English language dubbing of foreign films ....
, who was married to actress Carolyn De FonsecaCarolyn De FonsecaCarolyn De Fonseca is an American actress and voice dubbing artist based in Rome. She has worked extensively as a voice actress for the English-language dubbing of several hundred foreign films from the early 1960s and onwards...
. Fonseca supplied the voice of Albina, the antagonist during the first third of the film. - The film was partially financed by a French Pantyhose company, which is why the female convicts seldom remove theirs.
- The last film in the hugely popular, great and successful Black EmanuelleBlack EmanuelleBlack Emanuelle is an Italian softcore sexploitation film from 1975, the first in a series made to cash in on the success of the French film Emmanuelle, which was released the year before...
series.