Jail House Eros
Director: Kenny Ha
Year: 1989
Rrating: 6.5
The budget for this film must
have been huge. All those clothes being ripped off in the many cat fights
and the amount of water for all those showers! This is not really the typical
“women in prison” film though as it throws in some other HK elements – geeky
guys chasing after the girls and ghosts inhabiting the grounds. Amy Yip and
a number of other females are prisoners serving their jail sentences in a
prison run by Stanley Fung. Stanley does not run a real tight ship, as men
seem to find it rather easy to sneak in to woo Amy and the others.
Loletta Lee comes back
as the spirit of a girl that died years ago trying to escape. She needs the
help of a prisoner to get her beyond the prison walls because she can not
be reincarnated within. She is a nice ghost who helps out the women when
the evil ghost of a dead female guard comes back to wreck havoc.
Though this film has
elements of exploitation, it is really much too mild and gentle to reach
that level. There are a few quick glimpses of nudity throughout but nothing
really salacious. Amy does have some great scenes. One in which the evil
ghost comes back as a baton and Amy first swallows it and then regurgitates
it. Later a female Tao priest puts a charm around a small table and everyone
must get on top of it to be safe from the ghost. The problem is that a certain
part of Amy’s anatomy stretches over the boundary and the ghost can reach
it. Not a classic by any means, but somewhat fun and goofy.
