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Hellhole (1985 film)

Hellhole is a 1985 American exploitation women-in-prison film directed by Pierre De Moro and starring Ray Sharkey, Judy Landers, Marjoe Gortner, Edy Williams, and Mary Woronov. It was distributed by Arkoff International Pictures, marking the studio's final theatrical release.

Plot

After seeing her mother murdered by a killer, Susan, an amnesiac woman, is sent to a mental institution presided over by Dr. Fletcher, a power-crazed female doctor who performs lobotomies on the patients.

Cast

Production

Principal photography of Hellhole began in Los Angeles on July 2, 1984. Director Tom DeSimone directed additional footage after principal photography was completed, though he is not credited.

Release

The film was released theatrically by Arkoff International Pictures on March 15, 1985.

Home media

Shout! Factory cancelled its original plans to release the film on DVD and Blu-Ray due to the film having missing footage, but it has since been released on Blu-Ray in late 2016 by Scream Factory, a subsidiary of Shout Factory.

Reception

Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times panned the film, writing that it is "hard to think up anything else nice to say about a film that is so crammed with tawdry sex scenes (mostly between women), drug use, sadomasochism, frontal nudity and bad acting."

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