Simply Perfect

Sadly Over-hyped

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

I can't tell you how angry I am that this movie caused me to be. I was like what kind of law would not notice this prison and not shut it down. It is such a cruel place to be in, I don't know how these poor women put up with this?!Racism, abuse,self harm, murder,torture and rape were amongst these things involved in the movie that would bring awareness to people that this is still happening! It shows us we have to put in an end to this type of crime that people are up against. It does break your heart, our society doesn't know how to lift this and the only way to stop this is to fight for your human rights. This movie really gives a good example on how any type of people can be treated, not just black people but white people too.

Seriously good women-in-chains exploitation flick that was an ABC Movie of the Week. Deb Raffin and Lynne Moody star as coeds on summer break who pick the wrong backwoods town to have car trouble in. The town is run by a demented sheriff (Chuck Connors, much more effective as a baddie here than he was in "Tourist Trap"). When the girls spurn his advances, he jails them and rapes Moody, and then arranges to have them shipped off to the local prison farm. There, they are abused by the sadistic guards (among them Tina Louise) and brutal warden (Robert Reed). They soon discover not everyone gets out of the place alive, either. Della Reese plays one of their fellow inmates. The film is harrowing and believable, even if all the guards are shapely if not beautiful women. Guards in this type of film tend to come in all shapes and sizes, the better to intimidate and beat up on the inmates. The film is all the more frightening because this stuff happens in real life, or used to. Some decent nudity and whipping and cruelty, obviously added to the video release and for the overseas market.

I saw this movie a month ago and I loved it. The story is about two young college girls passing through a town and get a flat. A African-American helps them before being shooed by the evil cop (Chuck Connors). They stop at the local gas station to get help and they are told that it'll be done in the morning. They camp out in the woods and are awaken by the cop and arrested for trespassing. They are sent to the Ladies Prison in which they find out the true horrors of Badham County. They cannot contact their family and they cannot leave the prison without being killed. This movie is a must see so I recommend this movie to anyone. Few nude scene. Lesbian action and a thriller chase scene. Go and see it!

Combining horror and women-in-chains elements, this little gem is quite scary indeed. The star-studded cast is in great form, with many effectively cast against type--Della Reese as a prisoner with an almost-broken spirit, Robert Reed as a perverted rapist, and especially Tina Louise as a sadistic trustee. Deborah Raffin and Lynne Moody--two highly underrated actresses--are very sympathetic, and the film has a cheap, seedy atmosphere reminscent of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left.Nightmare in Badham County was shown theatrically, in a much more explicit version, outside of the U.S. This version is available on videotape and is the one I've seen. It's memorably depraved, with brutality and full-frontal nudity abounding. One skin-crawling scene in this version has a naked, repulsive lesbian guard (Lana Wood, I think) exchanging food for sex with a terrified inmate. Another has Louise pawing and whipping a naked girl. Still another has a large group of women wrestling in a field until a hose is turned on them; clothes are ripped, and one woman's panties fall down as she stands up. This version could've been a big drive-in hit in the States, but alas, it was shown here only as an ABC movie of the week.Whichever version you get, this oppressively grim torture epic is worth watching if you're an exploitation fan. An obscure cult classic with a very powerful ending.