To me, this movie is perfection.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Chained Heat (1983) * 1/2 (out of 4) Ten years after becoming a star with THE EXORCIST, Linda Blair got top billing for this women-in-prison flick. In the film she plays a sweet young woman who commits a crime and has to spend a year and a half in prison. This prison is full of wicked women, crazy guards and a perverted warden (John Vernon). In terms of American WIP films this one here goes pretty far out but it still can't hold a candle to the various Euro films like Jess Franco's BARBED WIRE DOLLS, SADOMANIA or even any of the ILSA movies. With that said, there's a certain amount of charm that comes with seeing Blair and Vernon doing a movie like this but that's not enough to keep this thing moving throughout the running time. The biggest problem is that the film itself doesn't know what it wants to be. The film starts off extremely corny with all sorts of silly fights, girls cussing at one another and even a shower scene, which is a must for this type of movie. The word exploitation is all over the picture but around the half way mark the film takes a more serious note as it tries to tackle the corruption going on inside the prison. Blair gives a fairly good performance but she has several crying scenes where you can't help but feel bad for her and this isn't the type of feelings that need to be in a WIP film. We really don't need these type of dramatics when the film sets out to be exploitation. Vernon was a real hoot in his pervert role and you can obviously tell that he is enjoying his character and the hot tub he has in the office to sleep with the female prisoners. For fans of filth there's still enough here to enjoy, although it certainly falls into the "so bad it's good" league. Blair's shower sequence has become rather legendary in terms of exploitation over the years but it was somewhat of a letdown.

"Chained Heat" is the kind of Women-in-Prison film for those who don't like the genre.**SPOILERS**Arriving at a new prison, Carol Henderson, (Linda Blair) finds that the other inmates coming in with her, Val, (Sharon Hughes) Bubbles, (Louisa Moritz) and Blue Eyes, (Jody Medford) are out to protect her from Ericka, (Sybil Danning) Bobbi, (Dee Biederbeck) and Lulu, (Greta Blackburn) some of the tougher inmates. As they all get processed into the facility, they realize that Warden Bacman, (John Vernon) has big plans for them, since they are also in league with her to run a drug ring in the prison. As they spend more time in the prison, they all realize that a war within the prison's inmates has them all in the palm of Captain Taylor, (Stella Stevens) who has plans on taking control of the prison. Not standing up for the deception, they revolt against the authorities to get better conditions for themselves and throw the corrupt heads in charge out of power.The News: As far as Women-in-Prison films go, this one is a more classy version, for better or worse. Despite being a mainstream film, this one still features enough requirements of the genre to make it count. There's the butch authority figure with the manly haircut and the constant cigar-chomping attitude, the women inside taken out to be sold as prostitutes, higher motives for those in charge and then the sleaze angles, featuring everything from the nudity to the sex and much more. There's a requisite shower sequence that features a couple of full-frontal shots, the dominating one forcing the rookie to wash her down and more that are prerequisites of the style. Even the sex scenes are pretty sleazy, with the fact that they're recording it and forcing others to watch or perform special moves which is where the sleaze comes in. From the interactions in the yard to the way the newbie is handled by the others all the way to the fight against the higher-ups, this one really plays well with the conventions of the genre, only doing them in a sanitary way without being too dirty or disgusting. The sanitation in here is perhaps the biggest flaw in the film, since it gets to be able to do all of that without going to the lengths the other ones have done, which is what made them fun. Going all the way and being as sleazy and disgusting as they were was what made the others work, but this one here goes around that and makes it too clean-feeling, ruining much of that and feeling too much like a high-brow attempt at making a genre entry, which doesn't work at all. There's also the sanitized deaths in here, with really lame kills that don't have anything to offer up, with just about all of them being done in bloodless manners or hidden so that there's nothing that can be seen when its done. It's hard to get into the dirtiness of the film when everything is so clean and sanitized. Aside from these, there's also some good points to this as well. The riot through the prison at the end is really great, with the fully impressive and full-on action that takes place. It's a long series of brawls that culminate with some big action in here with a long battle that is perfectly needed to end the film on a great high. The other part that works is a rather tense chase through the catacombs early on, where an unseen force runs down an inmate through a darkened series of hallways, walkways and more, with some tense moments and a great send-off that makes it work. All of these, though, are mostly undone by the rather tame feeling it has.The Final Verdict: A more upscale exploitation film that offers up what the genre has to offer without the sleaze, this doesn't really reach the depths the best have to offer. If you want the option of seeing one with getting as offended with the other ones, give it a try but more adventurous exploitation fans have better options.Rated R: Graphic Language, Full Nudity, Violence, drug use and a couple mild sex scenes

Gave it 8 because of Linda Blair she is one of my all time favorites. It's really is a chick flick women behind bars, this movie was made in 1983 stars the Late John Vernom,Sybil Danning which her role in this was brilliant she played the bad girl,and Stella Stevens as a women's Sergent. The plot Linda Blair killed her boy friend by accident and sentence to 18 months in the womens prison, which is run by John Vernon who rapes,and makes out with some of the girls,so they can get stuff. This is diffidently a 80's movie almost a lesbian movie, when some of the girls get out of prison to go to a party with Linda a prostude party Linda freaks out in a up stairs bedroom. then they went to there dorms,linda goes to the head warden and she gets rape by him, So in the mean time Linda kind of befriends a black chick and her possie, then she had a friend with Val who got killed by a guard after she killed the warden. This movie is action,some what slow,but with a budget probably about 20.000 it would have been better or if the made it now. But,things are different now,so Linda Blair goes commando and gets revenge at the-END. some OF IT'S BAD ACTING LIKE Linda B;LAIR SHE KINDS OF FAKES it. but,the plot of the movie is great,it's not like OZ,but kind of like Savage Streets she goes on the rampage. Linda Blair as robocop or the terminator. It is on DVD and have a lot of specials (i think) John Vernon should have sticked with another role but he did good, and Cybill is a riot,her big tits should have a second screen.

Ugly women-of-the-cellblock flick rakes the bottom of the midnight-movie barrel, combining pulpy sleaze with the hoariest of girls-in-the-shower clichés. Linda Blair plays an innocent sent to jail (we learn offhandedly she was involved in running over some guy with her car), facing hard time in the Big House with some of the nastiest characters this side of a Russ Meyer pic. Blair is continually pawed at, punched, raped, humiliated and harassed. The dialogue is four-letter-word disgusting throughout, and the flick offers no let-up from its barrage of violence and stupidity. Still, some viewers see this as a camp classic, though perhaps its tongue isn't far enough in cheek. * from ****