I've come to realise through watching this sort of film that I don't like them very much. Caged Women is yet another 'women in prison' film, and like the most of the rest of the genre; the plot is completely forsaken in favour of simply showing nude women. Now don't get me wrong; I love nude women, but I also like there to be some sort of plot thread to go with the nudity, and since this film has only the basic 'women are in prison' theme running through it (aswell as the essential escape, of course),I got a bit bored before the end. The film is good because there's barely a moment in it where the women are wearing clothes, but that's about the only positive element. Director (and writer, ha ha) Erwin C. Dietrich delights in showing close-ups of the naked female body, but it's never very erotic. The director was the producer on a number of trash flicks, including some directed by Jess Franco. In my opinion, he should stick to producing as his writing talents are non-existent, and he doesn't seem to know how to film a sex scene. This sort of material is rather dry a lot of the time, but I reckon Franco could have made more out of it. Overall, this might suffice for people that are really into this sort of stuff; but I can't say I enjoyed it.

I'd love to write a little summary of this movie's plot, but...there simply isn't one! If you just take a look at the plot keywords for this title, you pretty much know the entire content of the film: sex, breasts, exploitation, female frontal nudity and women's prison! 80 minutes of pure sleaze and nothing more. "Escape of the Island Women" (an alternate title that isn't even listed here) clearly wanted to become another notorious and controversial woman-in-prison classic, but it totally lacks the brutality of one. WIP-flicks are meant to blend graphic sexual images with shocking violence, but the violence here has just been replaced with more sex. Director Erwin Dietrich surely can't compete with specialists in the field, like Jess Franco or Joe D'Amato, and he should have sticked to making ordinary soft-core flicks. The only aspects that slightly look like cult-cinema are the resemblance of the tyrant-president with Fidel Castro and the group-rape of a (minor?) girl by soldiers. The girls are ravishing, though, and the Ibiza filming location looks very enchanting.

"Gefangene Frauen" or "Women's Penitentiary VII" or "Island Women" (and there are many more titles for this one) is a Swiss 90-minute movie from 1980, so it had its 35th anniversary last year. The director and one of the writers is Erwin C. Dietrich and this film here shows how much he had worked with Jesús Franco on several occasions. There is lots of sex in here, basically from start to finish, the women are almost always nude, some of them have big breasts, some have small and some of them have blonde hair (actually the majority) and some dark hair. The diversity in this area may be there, but it lacks entirely in terms of story-telling. It is about a bunch of women who are held prisoner at an island by some evil blonde warden. And she has them fight men (was that a feminist statement, Mr. Dietrich?) and beat them up with kicks to the balls. Then, on other occasions, they have sex with men, with each other or with the warden. Oh well. This is a porn movie, nothing more and the actresses in here are even bad for porn film actors still. I personally prefer brunettes so if you are horny and like blondes, this may be a bearable watch and I have to say I even liked the one petite blonde with the big breasts, aside from the one (yes only one) brunette character. So yeah, there is no reason really to watch this film. If you are horny, go for porn and I do not mean "go for this film here" as it really sucked a lot and was never a rewarding watch. The premise is not that bad, but what they made of it is pretty disastrous. This may not be a Franco film, but it looks exactly like one of the Spanish filmmaker's worst. The only question worth discussing controversially after seeing these 1.5 hours is what was the worst aspect of it: Script? Acting? Sex scenes? I highly not recommend the watch.