Review of Hellhole

Hellhole (1985)
8/10
A choice chunk of mid-80's exploitation trash
2 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Young lass Susan (vapid, but buxom blonde Judy Landers) gets stricken with amnesia after she's almost killed by raving psycho Silk (robustly overplayed to the slimy hilt by Ray Sharkey). Susan winds up incarcerated in an asylum where the staff is crazier than the patients. Worse yet, Silk infiltrates the place as an orderly so he can finish Susan off.

Boy, does director Pierre De Moro happily wallow in the cinematic sleaze: We've got oodles of bare female flesh, a group shower scene, a fierce cat fight, hot girl on girl action, nasty medical experiments being done on hapless innocent women, and Silk even gets it on with two babes in a mud bath. This film further benefits from a top-rate cast of familiar B-movie faces: Mary Woronov as vicious predatory lesbian Dr. Fletcher, Marjoe Gortner as the geeky Dr. Dane, Richard Cox as nice guy Ron, stuntwoman Marneen Fields, the inescapable (and frequently nude) Edy Williams, and Dyanne "Ilsa" Thorne as various inmates, Robert Z'Dar as hulking brute guard Brad, and Lynn Borden as Susan's ill-fated mother. A total scuzzy grindhouse blast.
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