Thirty years later, Father Marek meets Prior Andrzej at a secluded church that serves as a sanatorium where women thought to be possessed by the Devil are brought for exorcism. In his room, Marek unpacks, unzipping a concealed compartment that contains a pistol, flashlight, and other items not allowed on the property, as well as a newspaper clip about a missing woman. At one point, he bares his chest, revealing an unusual scar similar to that of the baby. He begins to experience strange phenomena in his room - the cross on the wall rotates, the bathroom mirror fractures, and the wardrobe makes creepy gurgling sounds.
Marek is called to witness a woman's apparent exorcism. She screams while the Prior recites holy words. In addition, the bed quakes, a strange wind blows, and the Prior's cross catches fire. When Marek investigates the room later, he discovers that all the effects were staged. However, he also experiences more strange and inexplicable phenomena. He joins the priests for meals but has trouble eating the exceptionally unappetizing food, which makes him retch. One day one of his teeth breaks open, revealing a live fly. A few days after the exorcism, he witnesses the priests burying a casket in the church's graveyard, presumably for the girl, whose room is now empty. Piotr, the vice Prior, approaches him stealthily and asks him to meet in the confessional, where he says that the church is watching both of them and warns Marek to be careful, because those who disobey are severely punished. Marek reveals that he is a militiaman investigating an anonymous tip about missing local women, disguised as a priest because the militia does not want to openly meddle in church business after the murder of the priest Jerzy Popieluszko. According to Piotr, the Prior fakes the exorcisms to defraud the Curia and the Vatican; however, he doesn't know what happens to the women following their exorcisms. Marek searches his room for surveillance devices and finds a bizarre bone-and-eyeball device in a gap behind the closet. He hurls the device into the trash and vomits up a dark liquid full of flies that buzz and take off, and hallucinates his face being drenched in the liquid. Later, he sneaks out to dig up the exorcised woman's grave and finds an empty coffin. At this moment, Father Dawid captures Marek, knocking him out.
The Hellhole Women
Marek wakes up tied to his bed. Prior Andrzej and Father Dawid force him to consume four more portions of cooked meat, after which Marek loses consciousness. When Father Dawid dozes off, Marek frees himself; in a subsequent struggle, he fatally shoots the Father. In the kitchen, he finds the bodies of the missing women hanging on hooks in the freezer and realizes he was being fed their organs. Piotr discovers him there and convinces him to go to the library, where he explains that the priests believe Marek to be the "chosen one," a baby born during an eclipse who could be used to complete a ritual that involved eating the flesh of seven sinners and drinking the blood of an innocent, after which it would transform into a demon, ushering in a new era of world order. According to Piotr, the church's former priest had tried to kill Marek at birth but failed. However, the current priests were working to complete the ritual and realize his destiny. Piotr leads Marek to a hidden exit to the sanatorium, where he betrays him to the other priests, who incapacitate him and drag him back to the sanatorium.
In Spain, a newlywed couple parks their car in a deserted land to make love and they trespass a private property. They are taken to a women's prison and the husband is released while his wife is arrested and forced to do hard labor. Soon she learns that the women in the prison are submitted to sexual abuse to satisfy the sadistic lesbian warden and the impotent governor and his bisexual wife. Meanwhile, her husband returns to the prison with a friend expecting to rescue his wife.
The monks of a remote monetary in Poland run a clinic for the possessed. Cut off from the outside world, they record the exorcisms and report to the Vatican, keeping the operation open with their findings. One day, a young policeman, Marek, comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented women. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.
Scream Factory put a good looking Blu-ray. Unfortunately, the negative for this film is lost so they had to pull shots from a print... but they did the best they can to properly restore this Arkoff women in prison gem. Well... sort of gem.
A nasty little shocker that has elements of women in prison films as well as 80s slashers. Eccentric and stylish while maintaining a perfect blend of camp and dark tones this film achieves a uniquely entertaining experience. A non stop freight train of sleaze, violence and terror delivered through a quirky and offbeat rhythm of madness.
Full of dirty scumbags from every direction. The initial mum murderer (Silk is hilarious), girls in the mental asylum(great punch ups), guards of hellhole(Robert Z'Dar), insane doctors, and perhaps the hellhole survivors.
This was birthed from Pierre De Moro's perverted fantasy wasn't it? I'm pretty positive they don't send people with amnesia to sanitariums but how else would Moro have been able to create this b-rate exploitation nudie fest of fucked up scientific experimentation, women in prison film ripping and low lit trashy vibes?
Ray Sharkey (The Rain Killer) delivers a hilariously over-the-top performance as Silk, the murderous bully who steals the show every time he appears on screen. He is a brash, misogynistic sociopath with a quick temper, yet I found myself rooting for him as he is the most interesting character in the picture. Technically, Judy Landers (Dr. Alien) is the leading lady, but as she is a limited actress, the role of Susan appears to have been scaled back and she is more of a supporting character in her own film. If Sharkey has a worthy opponent, it is the inimitable Mary Woronov (Night of the Comet), a lady who knows her way around the cult cinema scene and handily owns every second of her screen time as the intimidating Dr. Fletcher. Here we find her sneering her way through the role of a psychopath ostensibly working to perfect a chemical lobotomy, but dominating women as a catharsis for her latent sexual hang ups. Woronov has performed variations on this hard-ass archetype for decades, yet manages to bring a sincerity to each film and this is part of what makes her such a treasure to the genre.
"Jane Doe found herself hopelessly trapped in a bizarre plot pulled from a Kafka novel," the court documents read. She "was imprisoned in the hellhole of the Harris County Jail for no reason other than being a rape victim who struggles with a mental disability."
According to his wife Josephina, Fermin began to change a year ago, beating her in front of their two children and cavorting with other women. Co-workers noticed changes too: Rodriguez had recently begun to brag about returning to the Dominican Republic, where, he said, he planned to build "a big place with an inside pool." Still many found it hard to believe that he would ever have resorted to kidnapping. "He didn't look like the type," says Frank Ramos, a buttonhole-maker at the factory. "And he don't have the brains." Luckily for Harvey Weinstein, Ramos was at least half right. 2ff7e9595c
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