Barbed Wire Dolls
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This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Suspiria Vilchez) is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

From the creative team behind DELIRIUM magazine comes DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO, a brand new label designed to bring some of the silver screen's strangest and sexiest cinema to your ever-expanding collection. Carefully curated by DELIRIUM's own editor-in-chief, DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO's unique library will explore both hard and softcore erotica, bizarre and bloody European exploitation fare, operatic international horror, obscure dark fantasy and much, much more, with each title presented in stunning HD and packed with all-new special features. Get ready for a wild ride!

One of notorious Eurosleaze auteur Jess Franco and producer Erwin C. Dietrich's most shocking films,1976's Barbed Wire Dolls is the ultimate unholy “Women-in-Prison” exploitation opus. In it, Franco favorite and lifelong muse Lina Romay (Doriana Gray, Rolls Royce Baby) stars as the wide-eyed Maria, an unfortunate young woman who kills her father (played by Franco in a delirious flashback sequence) in self defense after he attempts to rape her. She is tried, sentenced and shipped off to what is perhaps the grisliest, greasiest and most depraved women’s penitentiary in screen history where, at the hands, fingers and fists of psychotic lesbian warden Monica Swinn (The Duke of Burgundy, Female Vampire), she and her fellow inmates are subjected to an endless onslaught of perverse psychological and sexual abuse. 

Filled to the gills with sex, Sapphic erotica, copious amounts of female nudity and offensively staged scenes of genital humiliation, this sleazy Franco masterpiece will rattle your cage in the sweetest way...

directed by: Jess Franco
starring: Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Eric Falk
1976 / 79 min / 1.85:1 / English, German DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0

Additional info:

  • Region A Blu-ray
  • COMMENTARY BY DELIRIUM MAGAZINE COLUMNIST DENNIS DANIEL
  • TRAILER REEL
  • INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR PETER STRICKLAND ON THE FILMS OF JESS FRANCO
  • SISTERS IN THE SLAMMER: THE WOMEN IN PRISON FILMS OF JESS FRANCO
  • INTERVIEW: JESS FRANCO, LINA ROMAY and ERWIN C. DIETRICH
  • English SDH subtitles

Overall rating: 4.4761906 / 5 from 21 reviews.

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Another Great Delirium Title

"Your mileage may vary with Delirium Uncle Jess releases but this is one I have wanted to see for years and it didn’t disappoint!"

— Eli O. (5/5)

Barbed Wire Dolls

"A women in prison movie by none another then Jess Fracno, professional sleazy maker. If you know Franco, you know what type of movie you are in for. The movie itself has never looked or sounded better."

— Derek B. (5/5)

Franco WIP

"Another great release from the Erwin C. Dietrich library. Great slip art and some really cool extras add a lot to this Jess Franco title."

— Simon R. (5/5)

Did Jess Franco invent bullet time?

"Before The Matrix actors had to actually move in slow motion to achieve the kind of immersive spectacle we now take for granted. Also the slip cover art is gorgeous!"

— Joshua G. (4/5)

Nudity

"Nudity, nudity, and more nudity. No plot."

— Aaron M. (5/5)

Among Jess Franco's best smut

"Barbed Wire Dolls is not only smut, it's a good movie. Probably one of the best of this kind of thing from Franco. Buy with confidence."

— Michael W. (4/5)

Uncle Jess on a roll

"I hope these releases never end."

— Mike M. (5/5)

Against the Masterpiece

"Jess Franco made roughly two hundred films and the critical apparatus has never recovered. We are trained to locate the singular achievement, the crowning work, the one you hand to the skeptic. Franco offers no such thing. He offers instead a continuous condition — a body of work that must be entered rather than surveyed, and BARBED WIRE DOLLS is as good a door as any. The women-in-prison picture is among the most rigidly formulated genres ever devised, which is precisely why Franco's indifference to it is so revealing. He has no interest in the machinery of escape, the earned catharsis, the third-act uprising. He drifts. The zoom lens hunts across faces and bars and foliage with an impatience that has nothing to do with coverage and everything to do with a temperament. Scenes dissolve into reverie mid-scene. The plot is a pretext and Franco never pretends otherwise. Lina Romay does not give a performance in any sense the term usually implies. She submits to the film, entirely, and the result is closer to documentary than to acting. The material is genuinely ugly and the film does not soften it. This is Franco at his least ingratiating and his most characteristic. Approach accordingly, and gratefully."

— chris b. (5/5)

Jess's best WIP movie

"One of Franco's more accessible movies. As ever, I wish we had the German soundtrack, but still great to see it on Blu-ray."

— Richard B. (4/5)

A Great Barbed Wired Return for These Dolls

"Jess Franco is a great cult director of depravity and exploitation and was pretty much in league with Roger Corman for his time making films always involving women as their protagonist rather than men. His strongest decade was the 1970's and Barbed Wire Dolls which came later in the decade and starring one of his favorite actresses at the time, Lina Romay is one of his best efforts. Romay stars in the film as woman who is seeking revenge for the death of her father and instead gets thrown into a prison where she is the object of desire and torture by the sadistic lesbian warden (throughout the 70's there was always one of these films featuring almost the same plot which included the Ilsa films and most of Roger Corman's films which were fun). There is plenty of nudity and violence throughout which is an a plus for fans of the director like I've become and many of his films are being remastered like this one with great results. The film was released on blu ray by Full Moon over a decade ago with some pretty sexy art but nowhere near as sexy as this artwork featured for both the slipcover and the regular cover for the film. The film has a great restoration and fans will no doubt be pleased with this excellent release. I'm looking forward to the next Jess Franco restoration because Vinegar Syndrome will give it a proper release."

— DANNY G. (5/5)

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