The Big Bird Cage

In this exploitative women's prison drama, the "birds" in "the big bird cage" are, clearly, women. With the help of an outside revolutionary, the girls of at a rural prison stage an escape attempt. They have little to lose, as the prison is a site of incredible decadence and brutality. Only two of ...more

Though not a sequel to Jack Hill's 1971 The Big Doll House, this entertaining women's prison epic plays all the same cards as the original drive-in hit and helped cement the clichés that similar films went on repeating for years. Once again, our heroines are trapped in a bamboo prison in the Philippines, though this time banana republic politics propel the plot. Everything else will be familiar to fans of this fetishistic subgenre, including the sadistic warden, predatory lesbians, man-starved ...more