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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!
From the fevered, wonderfully perverted minds of Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich comes the notorious women-in-prison shocker Women in Cellblock 9 (aka Frauen für Zellenblock 9 and Tropical Inferno). The film stars Franco regulars Susan Hemingway (Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun), Howard Vernon (Faceless) and Karine Gambier (Satanic Sisters) and tells the tale of a gaggle of female freedom-fighters who are taken to a secluded women’s jungle prison where they endure all manner of violent and sexual humiliations.
Like all of the productions in the prolific Franco/Dietrich collaborative canon, Women in Cellblock 9 is a visually lush, erotic and explicit exploitation masterclass, armed with exotic locations, weird performances and a great, dreamy score by composer Walter Baumgartner.
Delirium Home Video is proud to present this revered sleaze cinema classic completely uncut, and while it's not for the easily offended, Women in Cellblock 9 is an essential work of sadistic escapism.
directed by: Jess Franco
starring: Karine Gambier, Howard Vernon, Susan Hemingway, Aida Gouveia
1978 / 77 min / 1.85:1 / English, German DTS-HD MA 2.0
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Overall rating: 4.75 / 5 from 32 reviews.
Review topics: ["packaging","quality","release","extras","art","transfer","franco","film"].
"Another sleaze fest from Franco but this one keeps things mostly off screen. This one is hampered by a very low budget so the blood looks terrible. There’s also very little entertaining that happens and certain scenes seem to really drag out, this is a short movie at just over 70 mins but feels way longer. There’s also very also no extras except from a commentary."
"Women in Cellblock 9 is a grimy, unapologetically sleazy slice of ’70s women-in-prison exploitation that delivers exactly what fans of the genre expect. It’s outrageous, nasty, and politically incorrect in a way that makes it a fascinating time capsule of exploitation cinema."
"Another Franco/Dietrich joint, another sleazefest - this one is kinda the perfect result of this collaboration, and a must buy."
"Beautiful transfer on this new release from master Director Jess Franco. Sound quality is amazing. Terrific Art on the slip cover keep putting these Jess movies out and I will keep buying them You can’t go wrong with women in cages."
"Picture quality is good considering age and budget of the film. No extras but slipcover is very good."
"Interesting release with some good extras. Not my favorite art on the slip to be honest, but it's one step closer to Jess Franco completionism so hats off to Delirium for getting some of his harder to find titles!"
"Another great release of a Jess Franco and Erwin C. Dietrich collaboration."
"Sleazy classic (?) from the insanely prolific Jess Franco. More entertaining than the self-important and self-indulgent Digger. Love the slipcover! Keep these Franco films on blu-ray coming in 2027."
"Crazy nihilistic WIP movie from Franco. Amazing to see Dora Doll play the sleazy warden. Hard to believe she's the same actress from Franco's musical comedy "La Reina del Tabarín. ""
"Love the cover art here, especially since it recaptures one of the best scenes in the film, when Susan Hemingway extracts a bullet from a woman's shoulder using twigs from the jungle floor."
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