prohibited-name-1142 Review of Women in Cellblock 9

Women in Cellblock 9 (1978)

Exquisite torture and rape, Franco's way

[9/10 · 30 December 1998]

A truck full of sweaty girls rolls on a tropical road. Howard Vernon and a mad prison keeper are waiting at the end of the road and stop the expedition to emprison the girls, who are "traitors" to the nation. Which nation, we'll never know, but they'll pay for sure. They are brought to cell block 9, where the expert hands of Vernon will make them say everything they know and even more. One of Vernon's best role, some of Franco's best torture ideas, lots of cruel and funny scenes, including a girl sitting on a BIG rhinoceros horn... Obviously a film with a minimal budget, it ends with a scene you'll never forget : the two surviving women try to escape from their evil wardress and they get shot, and the prison keeper tells her soldiers they can do anything with the bodies. As the camera makes a really beautiful panoramic movement towards the skies, we can hear the soldiers unzip their pants. What a delicious movie.