Caged Heat (Caged Females) (Renegade Girls)

Caged Heat (Caged Females) (Renegade Girls) (1974)

  • 82% of critics liked it
    (11 reviews)

  • 37% of users liked it
    (2,912 ratings)

Considered the quintessential "girls in prison" flick of the 1970s, novice director Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat is set in a hellish American woman's penitentiary run by vicious, wheelchair-bound Barbara Steele. Statuesque convict Erica Gavin is forced to undergo horrible (but legal) tortures when… More

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R, 1 hr. 25 min.
Directed By
Jonathan Demme
Written By
Jonathan Demme
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Cult Movies
In Theaters
Dec 31, 1974 Wide
On DVD
Jan 22, 2002
Concorde/New Horizons Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    Jonathan Demme's debut film is campy, choppy, and generally immature, though his bonding themes are fitfully discernible amid the cartoonish action.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Vibrant take on multicultural grindhouse sisterhood

  • John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

    Contains a skits-within-the-movie sequence that comments on the narrative while also exposing the artificiality, absudity and performance aspect of the 'Women in Prison' trend itself.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    An exciting film, and one that proves that even the most exploitative of films can make a relevant statement.

  • , Time Out

    It's no more than passable as a thriller, but the density of invention and energy in other respects is enough to shame a dozen contemporary major studio movies.

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  • Doctor S


    Your eyes do not deceive you - that is THE Jonathan Demme with the director's credit for this Roger Corman exploitation and one of the most influential of the WIP (women in prison) subgenre. And you know what, it ain't half bad! Don't get me wrong, nobody would… More

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