British exploitation guru Pete Walker graduated from sex comedies to controversial horrors in the ’70s, films so rinsed in nihilism and anti-establishment rage they not only helped put the nail in Hammer’s coffin but bore comparison with the nightmare movies emerging from America.
Deciding that “sadism and flagellation” turned viewers on, Walker and screenwriter David McGillivray served up this bleak tale of a mad old judge who runs his own private prison, capturing ‘immoral’ women and flogging them for their sins.
Unfortunately for the girls it doesn’t end there: he hangs ’em, too.
Argh! A buxom beauty is stripped and strenuously whipped. Thresh that flesh.
Remake rights: Hello Eli Roth...
Death Weekend (1976)
House Of Whipcord (1974)
Road Games (1981)
Isle Of the Dead (1945)
Blind Beast (1969)
The Sect (1991)
Habit (1996)
Dead Of Night (1974)
Messiah Of Evil (1973)
Inside (2007)
Spider Baby (1968)
Daughters Of Darkness (1971)
Shock (1977)
Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)
Lemora - A Child's Tale Of The Supernatural (1973)
The Hour Of The Wolf (1968)
Viy (1967)
The House With Laughing Windows (1976)
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (1970)
Infernio (1980)
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