The Jail: The Women's Hell [DVD]For his second to last film, the late writer director Bruno Mattei returned to the genre that established his reputation as a true Maestro of EuroSleaze: When a group of women are sentenced to a jungle hellhole prison known as The House of Lost Souls, theyll enter a sweaty nightmare of sadistic guards, menacing lesbians and rampant nudity. But Mattei here under his alias Vincent Dawn also packs his final babes behind bars saga with enough

And the result remains one of the greatest achievements in schlock/shock cinema history

“like Todd Solondz on crack” (Digitally Obsessed) and “the most chilling portrait of the loss of humanity in the manicured lawns of Middle America ever made” (LA Weekly)

depraved torture

THE TIN DRUM) in the tradition of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and BORIS KARLOFF’S THRILLER

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Joan Armatrading

Vintage Featurettes: Behind the Scenes

Also starring Chris Kattan (Saturday Night Live)

a MiniDV cam and a group of friends in Bloomington

Sarah Chavez

VIY remains the height of Soviet fantasy cinema