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Arguably the finest women in prison (WIP) film ever made, CAGED HEAT proves that even a trash exploitation film can aspire to decent artistic values. Jackie (Erica Gavin), an accomplice in a drug related crime, is sent to a southern penitentiary run by an oppressive, wheelchair-bound warden (Barbara Steele).
Mar 28, 2007 Full Review Time Out It's no more than passable as a thriller, but the density of invention and energy in other respects is enough to shame a dozen contemporary major studio movies.
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- Juanita Brown
Jonathan Demme directs a typical piece of 70s female exploitation, Caged Heat looks out of date but the gun toting action stands up.
Oscar-caliber director Jonathan Demme is another name who got his start through Corman with this quintessential woman in prison movie Caged Heat. Erica Gavin (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) is involved in a robbery gone wrong and sentenced to a women's prison.
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Dec 24, 2019 · Caged Heat is pretty much your standard WIP genre film on the surface. All the ingredients are here: Nude shower scenes, cat fights, an evil, sexually repressed female warden and an explosive break out.
Caged Heat is contractual exploitation, an example of Roger Corman's trademark bargain filmmaking with obligated nudity and violence. Full Review | Apr 6, 2004
Jun 14, 1975 · Caged Heat: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Erica Gavin, Ella Reid. In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the crippled female warden and the corrupt prison doctor.
