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The reporter Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is on an undercover mission in a prison. If you ever watched any of the women-in-prison movies of the 1980s, you know: prisoners are not treated kindly there. However, "Violenza..." is a little bit superior to most of this genre insofar as it is not only into shower scenes. It's a tough, dark, fast moving flick with an amazing Laura Gemser and her husband Gabriele Tinti as a doctor who helps her to escape. The slowly evolving love interest between the doctor and Emanuelle is well scripted. Not for the fainthearted, however, is a scene where Emanuelle is locked up in a dark cell with a bunch of rats attacking her. Two years later, director Bruno Mattei went on to shoot "Rats - Notte di Terrore" with many more rats - a kind of unhealthy fascination, if you ask me. Laura Gemser and Gabriele Tinti continued with another prison movie "I Violenti" which is a sequel (not as good as the first film) to "Violenza..." although Tinti plays a different character.

After the sordid delights of 'SS Camp 5 - Womans' Hell' and the bleakly disturbing 'Womans' Camp 119', Bruno Mattei says farewell Nazis and, plumps instead, for a bunch of jailbirds for his next 'women incarcerated' chunk of sleaze.

It is unfortunate I didn't have a copy of 'Blade Violent' to compare this with, this film used the same cast,same sets and virtually same plot. A plus point is that I can review this purely on single merit. On a whole this is a fairly average entry in the Women In Prison genre, featuring three scream queens Gemser, Stoppi and De Selle taking the main roles. Unfortunately these stalwarts of sin cannot save this movie from being a little mundane. The movie tells the tale of our intrepid reporter Emanuelle (Gemser)undercover in a female penitentiary as an inmate. Her task is to report on the corruptive and inhumane practices within the prison/penal system. Eventually we are thrust into the unsavoury W.I.P world where beatings are regularly brandished out by deadpan officers with bad hair, sapphic shennanigans are occurring regularly by the suitably looking 'rough' females and there is of course the obligatory humiliation, mental and physical.

I am unsure whether it is because this is Matteis' first stab at the W.I.P genre (though SS films can't be all that dissimilar surely ?) but I feel the whole movie is rather a tame effort. There a few nasty surprises that borderline on the humourous such as the 'poo punch-up' and a very novel way of bell ringing. The rape sequence, although voyeuristically unsettling to begin with, you gradually find yourself amused as two inmates play pass the parcel with a scantily clad virgin most of this sequence and you wonder in disbelief whether this will end or not.

The direction is well achieved as Mattei uses commendable editing, although the sets are basic, there is still an oppressive decay to the whole affair. Most of Matteis genre films 'Zombie Creeping Flesh','Rats;Night Of Terror','Womens Camp 119' seem to have this vein of industrial atrophy, clinical but chemical and it is this polluted environment that always is the backdrop to some of Matteis' movies making them seem 'nasty'.

Despite sniggering at the dialogue, cringing at the effects and laughing at the dire continuity you always sense a stagnancy that sets the tone from the first frame and lingers throughout until the very last credit. I appreciate Mattei as a director for his grim 'simplicity' and his matter of fact 'I-made-the-films-because-thats-where-the-money-was' attitude. I often think Mattei could've moved onto bigger things but on occasions has been incorrectly underrated.

Buy this to add to the Emanuelle collection, The Mattei collection or WIP Collection that may grace the living room shelf.

VIEWED; UNCUT UNRATED R1 DISC - 99 MINUTES

Violenza in un carcere femminile (Caged Women) is your typical women in prison flick. Laura Gemster, the star of the popular "Emanuelle" series, poses as an undercover journalist trying to find out how hideous the conditions are inside. This film is a bit sleazy and dark at times. Laura Gemster is well known for the sleazy roles she playes in the (Italian) "Emanuelle" films. There are a couple of lesbian scenes but, nothing to shout about. These scenes do not include Laura Gemster. All being said, this film is just average in my opinion.

Ugh...this is only my second Black Emanuelle experience (after the even more infamous "Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals") and I'm already bored senseless with the character. "Violence in a Women's Prison" is a textbook example of the temporarily popular Euro-exploitation culture. These WIP-movies are notorious for their many vicious-sounding alternate titles and their supposedly controversial substance but, if you actually take the effort of seeing one, you'll agree that they're in fact very dull and far too inept to be taken serious. The ambitious reporter Emanuelle sets up a fake criminal record and goes undercover in a feared women's prison with the purpose of exposing the inhuman barbarities that take place inside the penitentiary's walls. She soon finds out that it was a lousy career move as she ends up in hell itself! All the inevitable sleaze-tricks to stuff up a typical exploitation flick with are exaggeratedly present: sadistic lesbian guards, humiliation, girl-on-girl action, rapes & beatings and a seemly endless amount of cat-fights. Everything the avid cult-fanatics adore, in other words, but I suppose that even they can't get passed the awful dialogues or the completely irrational plot-twists. The film isn't gory or shocking at all (apart from that one sequence in which our heroine is almost entirely devoured by red-eyed rats) and the uninspired overload of nudity becomes boring pretty quick. Slightly positive aspects are the neat musical score and the surprisingly well-handled directing by Bruno Mattei (or Vincent Dawn, as he likes to call himself here). The success of "Violence in a Women's Prison" – as well as of the entire Black Emanuelle series – entirely depends on the gorgeous Laura Gemser. She sure is one of the most beautiful women who ever lived...but she hasn't got the slightest bit of acting skills. If you browse around IMDb regularly, you'll notice that there are many WIP-movies on the market. Jess Franco made a lot of them, of course, like "99 Women" and "Barbed Wire Dolls", but even the more respected filmmakers like Jack Hill (Big Dolls House) and even Jonathan Demme (Caged Heat) have them on their repertoires. You can either do like everybody else and avoid them because they are "naughty" or watch one and see for yourself that's it's a whole lot of fuss about nothing.

(AKA Caged Women, AKA Women's Penitentiary 4)

Italian exploitation flick directed by low-budget gore and sleaze specialist Bruno Mattei (here under the alias 'Vincent Dawn'). An undercover journalist gets herself into a notoriously brutal prison, hoping to do an expose on the chief warden, her staff, and their inhumane methods. However, once she's incarcerated she finds herself at the mercy of staff and inmates alike.

It ticks most of the boxes for these; degrading medical examination, brutal punishment/hard labour, 'perverted'/voyeuristic staff, softcore girl-girl sex... although it is missing a shower scene! Everybody knows shower scenes are obligatory in WIP movies! It does, however, feature a 'scat fight'... Yep, that was a new one on me; apparently this is the term for a 'cat fight' where the women involved are rolling around in what is supposed to be human excrement. This film is nothing if not educational.

It stars Laura Gemser, best-known as the lead in the softcore Black Emanuelle films, and it's kind of an entry in that series, although apparently that was an afterthought. As best I can tell (and this does get confusing), this was originally going to be a standalone WIP movie. Then Mattei got the idea of tying it to the Black Emanuelle series that had concluded four years earlier (and that he wasn't involved with). So he cast Gemser as lead and named her character Emanuelle, although she's undercover as 'Laura Kendall'. In the original Black Emanuelle series Gemser's character name was 'Mae Jordan' and Emanuelle was just her nickname, but here her actual name is Emanuelle, although she's working under an alias... And somehow Mattei wanted all this to tie together... It's not worth trying to work it out in all honesty, because that's more effort than the film deserves. Gemser & co are attractive, but the film is often slow, even at times bordering on boring (unforgivable for a WIP flick; they may be trash, but they shouldn't struggle to hold your attention!). Worth seeing once if you're a fan of Gemser (she has many), but as a movie it's a 4/10.

Bruno Mattei's "Violence in a Women's Prison" is an enjoyable exploitation film.Laura Gemser plays a reporter named Emanuelle,who is going under cover to investigate reports of brutality and abuse of the inmates.She is exposed to beatings,forced sexual encounters,being chewed on by rats etc.The film has plenty of nudity and violence,but there is not enough sleazy exploitation for my liking.Mattei's obscure "Nerone e Poppea"(1983)is certainly more nasty and gore laden.Still the cast is pretty familiar for fans of Italian horror with Laura Gemser,Gabriele Tinti,Lorraine de Selle,Carlo de Mejo and Franca Stoppi to boost.So if you like WIP movies you can't go wrong with this one.7 out of 10.

This sleazy "women-in-prison" flick has everything you might expect: sex (both "straight" and lesbian), beatings, catfights, weird tortures, revolts, escape attempts, etc. You've seen it all before; usually less graphic perhaps, but, nevertheless, you HAVE seen it. Nothing new here. So the big question is: WHAT IS THE POINT? (*1/2)

Violence in a Women's Prison (AKA Emanuelle in Hell) sees Italian trashmeister Bruno Mattei (as Vincent Dawn, just one of many silly aliases the guy operated under) tackling the WIP genre with the same lack of subtlety, skill and style that he applied to most of his work; in other words, the film is an inept but gloriously cheesy slice of exploitative garbage that offers lots of misogynistic action, cartoonish violence, and unintentional hilarity, interspersed by moments of extreme drudgery and sheer tedium.

Laura Gemser, she of the dusky skin and perky breasts, once again stars as intrepid reporter Emanuelle, who this time around poses as a hooker and drug pusher to go undercover in a women's correctional facility and, with the help of Doctor Moran (Gabriele Tinti) and some friendly inmates, expose the depravity and corruption that goes on within. This flimsy plot is all the excuse Mattei needs to give fans of such dubious fare (myself included) over an hour and a half of poorly acted, badly directed sleaze, including the obligatory lesbian action from big breasted bimbos, assorted scraps, a rat attack, a touch of rape, a smidgen of buggery, a little drug abuse, some torture, and best of all, a scat-fight (that's a cat fight that takes place in human feces). It's not art, but it is fun (some of the time).

I give Violence in a Women's Prison 5.5 out of 10, happily rounded up to 6 for Lorraine De Selle's unmissable performance as the prison's nasty head warden, who parades around in black stockings and sussies, forces Doctor Moran to have sex with her (the poor man), and watches on with glee as a virginal female prisoner is raped by two leering inmates borrowed from the neighbouring men's prison.

Not credited but the director was no one less then Bruno Mattei. This flick was espescially in Belgium a major hit and the VHS of this flick titlled Emanuelle Reports from a Women's Prison says it all. Another Emanuelle flick. Be aware with double LL so not the dutch soft core franchise but th eflicks with Laura Gemser.

And if you say Laura as Emanuelle then you know what you will have, a lot of nudity. And being a WIP flick is surely offers on that point. But seeing it nowadays it's lost his values from then. It's boring and not erotic at all. The effects are laughable and some acting is really poor.

Strangely the version I've seen clocks in at 98 minutes and is the full uncut but can't see what the cut must have been with the 'clean' version.

Nevertheless, a must see for WIP geeks or Laura fans. And as so many Italian flicks, dubbing is done which gives it a cheesy atmosphere when they are hitting the girls.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 3/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

its true, not just anyone can! . why are they certain trashy exploitation movies we hold dear?

Mattei did bring style/substance to his films. Watch "Violenza in un carcere femminile" There is a dark mood to this film--done by style of cinematography, the score, the right cast, great flesh, script and direction. And by the way; cheese was intentional!! I really believe this. God I love this movie; I think I'll watch it tonight.



I like "women's camp 119" and "Night of the Zombies" aka Virus for the same reasons but "SS girls" is my favorite. Those who do not believe Mattei Cheesiness was not intentional should see this. In fact all of you who have not seen this film, should. It may be his masterpiece.

This is the second women in prison style Emanuelle film made by Bruno Mattei - and is not to be confused with Emanuelle Escapes From Hell which was made a year later. This one goes by the title Emanuelle Reports from a Women's Prison, among others; the best of which being Chicks in Chains. The plot is basically similar to the other Bruno Mattei Emanuelle women in prison flick, and this one sees the enthusiastic journalist in prison...to research how inmates are being treated by the guards. I would call this film the better of the pair; although only just and really it's about on the same level as the other women in prison garbage that was made en masse in the seventies and eighties. The fact that the beautiful Laura Gemser takes the lead role does make the film more interesting, however, and as always the popular actress lights up the screen every time she's on it. The film is decked out by all the usual sleaze as you would expect and the quality of filming is actually quite good; especially when you consider who is the in the director's chair. An extended lesbian sex scene towards the start is one of the film's main standouts. The film features a catchy soundtrack that is played most of the way through also. I have to say that I started to get a bit bored towards the end, mostly because I've seen it all before, but this is at least a worthy addition to an overpopulated genre and women in prison fans might get a kick out of it.

I enjoyed this way too much considering who was responsible for it (the lamentable team of Fragrasso and Mattei). It's certainly a superior WIP flick- plenty of funny stuff, camp dialogue, ludicrous stereotypes and sleazy exploitation. The production is surprisingly polished though, and actually manages to maintain a plausible narrative throughout, which is quite an achievement in the circumstances!

Although Gemser appears as "Emanuelle", the character is considerably toned-down from her previous outings. In fact, she only has consensual sex once in the whole film! The "Emanuelle" thing seems to be more a commercial, tacked-on after-thought than an indication of what this film is actually going to be like.

Anyway, it's fun, check it out.

WIP title conceals an entry in the "Black Emanuelle" series. Journalist Em (Laura Gemser, of course) goes undercover at a women's prison to get copy for an exposé. Naturally the place is a hellhole. Gemser bares her skinny body a few times, has sex scene with Gabriele Tinti (what a surprise), dumps a bucket of feces on a guard and spends time in the hole for it, where she is rather unconvincingly chewed on by hungry rats.

Standout inmates here are a haystack hair blonde of about 30, a little overweight but it sure looks good on her, who does a lesbian exhibition to entertain a femme guard, and a tall skinny teenish brunette who is stripped and manhandled by a couple of male guards while Lorraine de Selle, in hooker undies, voyeurs from her boudoir and gets groped by her own b.f. I don't ID either of these inmates but would not mind seeing more of their work. Dubbing is so-so and tech credits about average for an Italian Poverty Row production. This seems to have an authentic US R-rating so is probably a somewhat abridged version of the original. I saw this on big screen in the early 80s and later added a copy to my own video library but it's still just a modest entry in the WIP sweepstakes.

Violence in a Women's Prison (1982)

** (out of 4)

Infamous Italian director Bruno Mattai takes a stab at the WIP (Women in Prison) genre as well as makes another entry in the famous Black Emmanuelle series. Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) goes undercover in a prison to see if it's true about the sadistic warden who likes to beat, torture and rape the women prisoners. If you've seen one WIP film then you've pretty much seen this one since the director doesn't try to do anything new or original here. You've got the countless lesbian scenes and constant nudity but this here grows old after a while. There's really not any shock value and the violence is rather low and contained to one scene where rats attack Gemser. Okay film but there are better WIP movies out there.

This WIP movie delivers all the goods in an almost plausible story. Laura Gemser, reprising her role as Emanuelle, is incarcerated in a sleazy women's prison where the warden is corrupt, the guards get excited by torturing prisoners, and the inmates use one another as pleasure toys.

Although intended for mature audiences only, this is a film that delivers the goods in this genre without trying to hold back; even the characters are interesting and developed.