Needless to say that I had never heard about this 1976 movie titled "Frauengefängnis" (aka "Barbed Wire Dolls") prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. And with it being a movie that I had never seen, nor actually heard about, of course I opted to take the time and sit down to give the movie a go.
I assumed that I would be in for a sleazy exploitation movie, given the movie's cover. So I have to admit that my expectations to director Jesús Franco's 1976 movie were almost non-existing. But still, I opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt; maybe I had been missing out on something grand here.
The storyline in "Frauengefängnis" was you're generic and overly used women in prison thing. Boring, to say the least.
Of course I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here. The acting performances, despite the laughable dubbing, was actually fair enough for a movie in the exploitation genre. Of course you're not in for an evening of Shakespearian theater here, when you sit down to watch an exploitation movie.
And to make matters worse, then I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon an English dubbed version of the movie. That was just atrocious. The dubbing work was dubious and laughable, and that just made it even more difficult to sit through this heap of rubbish that is "Frauengefängnis".
"Frauengefängnis" was an abysmal movie, and suffice it to say that I didn't stick around even halfway through this dumpster fire. I just found nothing interesting or entertaining in the movie or about the pointless storyline.
My rating of "Frauengefängnis" lands on a one out of ten stars.
I assumed that I would be in for a sleazy exploitation movie, given the movie's cover. So I have to admit that my expectations to director Jesús Franco's 1976 movie were almost non-existing. But still, I opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt; maybe I had been missing out on something grand here.
The storyline in "Frauengefängnis" was you're generic and overly used women in prison thing. Boring, to say the least.
Of course I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here. The acting performances, despite the laughable dubbing, was actually fair enough for a movie in the exploitation genre. Of course you're not in for an evening of Shakespearian theater here, when you sit down to watch an exploitation movie.
And to make matters worse, then I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon an English dubbed version of the movie. That was just atrocious. The dubbing work was dubious and laughable, and that just made it even more difficult to sit through this heap of rubbish that is "Frauengefängnis".
"Frauengefängnis" was an abysmal movie, and suffice it to say that I didn't stick around even halfway through this dumpster fire. I just found nothing interesting or entertaining in the movie or about the pointless storyline.
My rating of "Frauengefängnis" lands on a one out of ten stars.