Chained Heat

Chained Heat
Chained Heat poster
Directed by	Paul Nicholas (writer/director)
Produced by	Billy Fine Monica Teuber
Written by	Aaron Butler, as Vincent Mongol Paul Nicholas (writer/director)
Starring	Linda Blair John Vernon Sybil Danning Tamara Dobson
Music by	Joseph Conlan
Cinematography	Mac Ahlberg
Editing by	Nino di Marco
Distributed by	Jensen Farley Pictures
Release date(s)	May 27, 1983
Running time	95 min.
Country	United States Germany
Language	English
Budget	$950,000
Box office	$6,149,983

Chained Heat (alternate title: Das Frauenlager in West Germany) is a 1983 exploitation film in the women-in-prison genre. It was co-written and directed by Paul Nicholas for Jensen Farley Pictures.^[1]

Plot

Linda Blair of The Exorcist stars as Carol Henderson, an immature and naive teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison after killing a man by accident. Once she arrives, she meets the vicious and perverted Warden Backman (John Vernon). She also encounters the two kingpin prisoners, Ericka (Sybil Danning) and Duchess (Tamara Dobson), who are the leaders of factions in the facility's seething racial tensions. There are also the drug-dealing lesbian rapists and the prostitutes, who answer to the warden's assistant, Captain Taylor (Stella Stevens). In the meantime, Taylor's lover is clandestinely having an affair with Ericka. It's a whirlwind of dread and fury, but when the facility's corrupt administration goes too far, racial considerations are put aside as convicts of all colors and nationalities band together to fight them.^[2]

Reception

Chained Heat 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 all together, its widest release being in 217 theaters. As of 2009 the film's domestic gross is $6,149,983.^[3] During its release the film came under fire heavily from critics for its sexism and from lesbian rights activists for negative and stereotypical portrayals of Lesbians as being violent and predatory. Chained Heat 's current rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 20% positive reviews.^[4]Chained Heat was produced for $950,000.

Sybil Danning won the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, while Linda Blair was nominated for Worst Actress.

Chained Heat (as a shorter edited version) has been available in a DVD box set with Red Heat and Jungle Warriors released in December, 2008.

Sequels

In 1993 the film, Chained Heat II, starring Brigitte Nielsen, Paul Koslo, Kimberley Kates and Kari Whitman. The film was directed by Lloyd Simandl and released in Canada.^[5] This was followed by the 1998 release of Chained Heat 3: Hell Mountain. The film starred Nicole Nieth, Kate Rodgers, and Bentley Mitchum and was directed by Mike Rhol from a screenplay by Chris Hyde.^[6]

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

Cast

Actor	Role
Linda Blair	Carol
John Vernon	Wardan Backman
Sybil Danning	Ericka
Tamara Dobson	Dutchess
Stella Stevens	Capt. Taylor
Sharon Hughes	Val
Henry Silva	Lester
Edy Williams	Paula
Nita Talbot	Kaufman
Louisa Mortiz	Bubbles
Michael Callan	Martin
Greta Blackburn	Lulu

References

1. ^ Chained Heat - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - New York Times
2. ^ allmovie ((( Chained Heat > Overview )))
3. ^ Chained Heat (1983)
4. ^ Chained Heat Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
5. ^ Chained Heat II - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - New York Times
6. ^ Hell Mountain (1998)

External links

• Chained Heat at AllRovi
• Chained Heat at the Internet Movie Database
• Chained Heat at Rotten Tomatoes