Red Heat / Jungle Warriors (Double Feature)
Note: This disc is Disc 1 from a 2-Disc Set that also includes "Chained Heat." Disc 1 is available to rent separately.
Red Heat (1985, 90 mins)
American tourist Chris Carlson (Linda Blair) is wrongly sentenced to three years in an East German penitentiary known for its torturous violence and the brutality of its inmates. As Chris battles against bad girl prisoner Sofia (Sylvia Kristel, Emmanuelle), her fiancé strategizes an all-out rescue attempt.
Jungle Warriors (1984, 92 mins)
Also starring Sybil Danning and John Vernon, finds a group of models captured by the mafia after their plane crashes in a remote jungle area. When the pilot is killed and the women are captured and subjected to extreme punishment, they map their escape and plan revenge.
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Not the Arnold movie, and not much fun either - Superdave
A few years before the Arnold S. / Jim Belushi team up action movie Red Heat, Linda Blair made yet another prison flick under that same title. As these exercises go it wasn't bad. The look of the picture is very Eastern Bloc - lots of dimly lit concrete corridors and depressing gray uniforms - and pretty realistic. The tone is one of grim Cold War authoritarianism. East Germany is made to look like just about the least welcoming place on earth, which it pretty much was. Plus, the script is a bit more literate, more realistic, less exploitative and more politically aware than what we usually get in one of these women-in-prison flicks. The resulting movie is a little better but a lot less fun to watch than the typical women-behind-bars (WBB) flick.
I mean, just who exactly wants a more realistic, less exploitative WBB? Most of these movies are chock full of exploitative silliness and don't take themselves very seriously, which makes for a fun, if campy viewing experience. This movie's companion piece (Chained Heat), for instance, is objectively a pretty terrible movie but a lot of fun to watch, mostly because it IS so exploitative and silly. Red Heat by comparison, is more convincingly realistic than Chained Heat, but also relentlessly grim and more than a little tedious as its unpleasant tourist-in-hell story line slowly works it way along.
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Not the Arnold movie, and not much fun either - Superdave
A few years before the Arnold S. / Jim Belushi team up action movie Red Heat, Linda Blair made yet another prison flick under that same title. As these exercises go it wasn't bad. The look of the picture is very Eastern Bloc - lots of dimly lit concrete corridors ...