Chained Heat

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Chained Heat (alternate title: Das Frauenlager in West Germany) is a 1983 American-West German exploitation film in the women-in-prison genre. It was co-written and directed by Paul Nicholas (as Paul Nicolas) for Jensen Farley Pictures.[1] Producer was Paul Fine, who had previously produced The Concrete Jungle.

Plot

The film takes place in the California women's prison in which naive teenager Carol Henderson is sentenced to serve 18 months for accidentally killing a man. Warden Backman has a hot tub in his office; his assistant, Captain Taylor controls the prison's prostitutes and has a lover who is also involved in a clandestine affair with Ericka, the leader of the white prisoners, while the black prisoners are led by Duchess. Eventually the administration pushes the prisoners too far and they drop their race-based feuding to revolt against their common enemy.[1][2][3]

Cast

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Production and release

Chained Heat was produced for $950,000. It opened on May 27, 1983 in 404 theaters nationwide and made $2,252,682 in its opening weekend. The film was in theaters for two and a half weeks in total. since 2009Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the film's domestic gross is $6,149,983.[4]

Reception

During its release the film came under fire from critics for its sexism and from gay rights activists for negative and stereotypical portrayals of lesbians as violent and predatory. A Variety review described it as "silly, almost campy" and judged Nicholas to have "display[ed] little feel for the prison genre, emphasizing archaic sex-for-voyeurs scenes".[3] since February 2019Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Chained HeatTemplate:'s rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 56% positive reviews.[5]

The film was nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Actress for Blair and won Worst Supporting Actress for Danning.[6]

Chained Heat (Uncut and remastered edition) was released in 2011 in a Women in Prison DVD box set with Red Heat (1985) and Jungle Warriors (1984).

Sequels

In 1993, the sequel Chained Heat II, starring Brigitte Nielsen, Paul Koslo, Kimberley Kates and Kari Whitman was released. The film was directed by Lloyd A. Simandl and released in Canada.[7] This was followed by the 1998 release of Chained Heat 3: Hell Mountain. The film stars Nicole Nieth, Kate Rodgers, and Bentley Mitchum and was directed by Mike Rhol from a screenplay by Chris Hyde.[8]

Both sequels bear little to no relation to the first film.

References

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  1. ↑ a b Overview, Chained Heat, The New York Times, archived at the Wayback Machine on April 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ Karl Williams, Synopsis, Chained Heat, AllMovie, accessed 2019-02-02.
  3. ↑ a b Review: Chained Heat, Variety, December 31, 1982.
  4. ↑ Chained Heat (1983)
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