Chain Gang Women

Tempting movie poster.

If someone wanted to define the exploitation genre he would probably be under a lot of trouble, because in the exploitation scene, as well in any other movie tendency we have both good and bad stuff,  but, no one defined exploitation as an award winning art, on the contrary exploitation means selling a product by abusing of its content, or part of its content for such matter.

Take today's movie review, Chain Gang Women, a promising title that suggests beaten/tortured women, nudity and plenty of sex. If that was a part of the film, the movie itself would probably be considered in a different movie genre. The movie title is true to its exploitation roots because we have to wait until an hour to see the very first girl, and the chain thing and the gang thing never happens. There are a couple of rape scenes which are lightly covered by the director.

Promising.

Mean guys.

The film is in no way a rip off, it is just an exploitation movie abusing the caged women concept of the late 70's soft core porn/porn films and they are not blame. So if you feel like a true genre connoisseur you will understand my words and probably think to yourself "this loser is right, exploitation was all about promising a concept and then failing to deliver it"

Roger Corman did produce 3 memorable caged women style films, Women in Cages, The Big Bird Cage & The Big Doll House, and believe my friend Chain Gang Women has absolutely nothing to do with those films. It was also stated somewhere in the media, even in DVD double features a la grindhouse style that this film, besides the promising title was also a biker movie (yep, another exploitation fad) and I bet you're guessing this film it is neither a biker flick.

So? what the hell is this movie about? well, here's the answer:

Boy meets boy in jail. Boys escape; and, boy meets girl.

Other boy rapes girl; boys leave girl.

Boys find other girl; other boy rapes girl.

Girl seduces boy. Husband kills both boys.

Girl is miserable.

Not a truly remarkable script, neither a masterpiece, just a party movie as some define films which are not interesting nor hard to follow when doing other stuff.

This is the first girl who shows up after 43'.

Is this a bike? are there any chains?

How would I grade this film? I don't know man, I just think you have to watch films for fun, there are thousands of relevant matters to discuss in life with more in depth investigations after all movies are just movies and today's flick is not about a masterpiece it's just another exploitation film.

Exploitation scene N°1.

Exploitation scene N°2.

Here's the movie trailer as usual:

See you soon!