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Directed by: Pierre De Moro

Actors: Mary Wornov, Judy Landers, Ray Sharkey, Edy Williams, Richard Cox, Terry Moore, Marjoe Gortner

Language: English

Country: USA

Also known as: Hell Hole

Description: One and a half hour of showing the senseless “charms” of women’s mental hospital, called Hellhole. Doctors put on patients diffrent experiments, to turn into a kind of unfortunate animals.

An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!

Objectively speaking, this B flick is a mess, with a sometimes incoherent screenplay by Aaron Butler. Judy Landers stars as Susan, a young woman who’s forced to witness her mother being killed by gleeful thug “Silk” (a scenery chewing Ray Sharkey). While fleeing him, she has a bad fall, gets amnesia, and ends up confined to a mental institution for young women. And it just so happens that the mad doctor in charge, Fletcher (Mary Woronov), is up to no good, performing insidious lobotomy type experiments.

“Hellhole” is not without the charms common to such exercises in pure sleaze. This exploitation-melodrama-horror film comes complete with all of the girl ogling / female nudity that a trash lover could want. There’s even a pointless mud bath sequence that one must assume was in there because the producers demanded it. There is some decent atmosphere, but there is practically no gore to speak of. Some viewers will have to prepare themselves for the fact that some story elements are introduced and then pretty much dropped: the “papers” that the bad guys controlling Silk want so badly come off as a MacGuffin.

Making it all worth watching is a B movie cast to die for. Woronov gives easily the best performance in this thing, camping it up in her turn as the female villain. Sharkey is blatantly comical and offbeat as the psycho goon. She may be very sexy, but the less said about Landers’ acting, the better. Also turning up are Marjoe Gortner, Richard Cox, Edy Williams, Robert Z’Dar (in his first film), Cliff Emmich, Lynn Borden, Dyanne Thorne, and Carole White. Cox is the nominal hero, a nice guy orderly who sympathizes with Susans’ plight. Z’dar is amusing as a sadistic guard. Thornes’ cameo as an inmate who thinks she’s an actress is a highlight.





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