Caged Fury
Tags: violence, cult, sadist

Plot synopsis:
Kat Collins, grown restless with life in rural Utah, decides to 'take her shot' in Hollywood. Along the way she picks up Rhonda Wallace, who just baled out of a would-be-rapist's pickup truck. Together, they head to LA and meet up with Rhonda's sleazy photograph pal, Buck Lewis, who takes the girls out on the town - meaning Mr. G's biker bar, where Kat is nearly raped.
As promised, Buck gets Kat and Rhonda a screen test at Mr. G's casting agency the next day. When the girls tumble to the fact that they're being auditioned for a role in a porno film they try to leave, which leads to an altercation and a trip in a squad car. Then it's a swing through the local kangaroo court, and the girls find themselves in the Honeywell State Prison for Women in no time flat!
Kat is ordered to tell her family she's out of the country on an acting job, and can't be reached - but sister Tracy is already in LA, tracking her down. She learns that Kat was taken away by the police, but is told at the station that there's no record of an arrest. Undaunted, Tracy's plan is to follow Kat's movements, which should lead her to her sister. And it does!
Now Kat, Tracy and Rhonda are together in a place where a two month sentence may in fact be a death sentence. Honeywell may be a prison, but not one sanctioned by the State of California. The pipeline from Buck's studio to Mr. G's casting couch to kangaroo court to Honeywell Prison is all part of a human trafficking organization that captures, subdues and sells young women into slavery.
Fortunately for the girls, martial arts maven Dirk Ramsey is hot on their trail - but will he get to them in time?

Review: There are some films in this world that are just so bad that they're hilarious, and Caged Fury is one of these.
The hero of the story is Dirk Ramsey, a be-mulleted kung-fu superman who attempts to rescue the inmates of a women's prison.
Most of the actresses in the film are porn stars, and spend the movie swoonig over Dirk and his burly chum Victor.
I thoroughly recommend this film for anyone who enjoys a good laugh.
...if you went into this, expecting a MOVIE!Let's just say as a movie, "Caged Fury" makes a great peep show!Same old song: innocent farm girl goes to big city (LA, if I recall) looking for stardom, ends up in the kind of prison that is an actual front for a white slavery ring; her sister goes looking for her, ends up in the same prison.NOW, here is where things get kind of confusing.
You see, this movie doesn't know whether or not it wants to be a sleazy women's prison movie, a porn flick, a cop movie or a kung-fu flick!I mentioned porn flick because this one has a big number of porn stars here, many under assumed names.
If you're a fan, you'll recognize Kashcha, Ron Jeremy, Tyffany Million, Janine Lindemuller and Julia Parton.It also has Erik Estrada (!!!) as a cop/detective looking for the girls and the huge, bulky Richard Barathy as his partner, who happens to know some beefy kung-fu moves that put all the baddies in their place.
And not only are these two here, but there are also appearances by Michael Parks, Jack Carter, Paul Smith (yes, Beast Rabban from the 1984 "Dune" movie) and James Hong.Anyway, there's loads of female nudity (it IS a women's prison flick, after all), kung-fu fighting, simulated sex, plenty of stupidity, truck-loads of prison stereotypes, entire continents of beautiful chicks and an ending where everything turns out okay.
Oh, and did I mention Erik Estrada?You can't expect much from movies like this, but at least "Caged Fury" throws in a lot more than other films do.
Name another women's prison flick with Erik Estrada...
that's what I thought.Two stars for "Caged Fury", plus one more for Erik Estrada - he needs more work like this..
For women's prison movie fans only.
Not a good film, objectively, but a sort of archetype of the women's prison movie genre.
If you are someone who likes women's prison movies, (and you know who you are) you CANNOT miss this one.
When I popped "Caged Fury" into my VCR, I had no idea what to expect because I didn't have the VHS sleeve, so I thought I might be in for a kind of kick boxing movie...
The film revolves around two sisters who get sent to this women's prison unjustifiably.
A women-in-prison-in-Hollywood movie..
Trashy late-'80s/early-'90s American women-in-prison flick Caged Fury stars Roxanna Michaels as naive wannabe actress Kathie Collins, who travels from Utah to Los Angeles looking for fame and fortune, but who only finds misery and suffering after falling for a scam that sees her sent to a women's prison where the inmates are sold as sex slaves.
When Kathie fails to call home after a few days, her big sister Tracy (Elena Sahagun) decides to try and find the missing girl, putting her own life in jeopardy in the process.Unlike the majority of women-in-prison movies, which are usually keen to get to the sleazy prison action as quickly as possible, Caged Fury spends a good third of its running time following Kathie as she falls in with drifter Rhonda (April Dawn Dollarhide), meets slimy Hollywood photographer Buck (Blake Bahner), goes sightseeing in downtown L.A., visits a scuzzy rock bar, almost gets raped by a gang of bikers, is rescued by friendly mercenaries Victor (C.H.I.P.s star Erik Estrada) and Dirk Ramsey (mulletted martial artist Richard Barathy), and auditions for a movie that turns out to be a porno (which forms part of the scam that results in her and Rhonda getting banged up).
All of this is mildly entertaining, particularly with all the ghastly 90s fashion and music on display, but nowhere near as much fun as the action that takes place after the poor girl is thrown behind barsRuled by lesbian dominatrix Warden Sybil Thorn (Ty Randolph), Honeywell State Prison is home to numerous unfortunates who are forced to saunter around in sexy lingerie, take regular communal showers, and satisfy the wicked guards' needs, meaning that the film is loaded with nudity from desperate aspiring starlets and a handful of porn-stars masquerading as actresses (including Kascha, Tyffany Million, and Janine Lindemulder).
Some of these women are complete bitches and cause trouble for Kathie, but this is swiftly dealt with by mean guard Spyder (Gregory Scott Cummins), who delights in punishing the inmates.
Already stunned by her terrible predicament, Kathie is even more shocked when Tracey also gets herself thrown into jail as part of her ill-considered rescue plan.Things look up for the girls when Dirk, a veritable one-man killing machine, storms the prison (which turns out to be directly opposite Mann's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard!); he karate chops and kicks his way through numerous guards (including porn legend Ron Jeremy), is overpowered and locked up, kicks his way through a solid brick wall, and squares off against the prison's massive head guard (played by Paul L.
Meanwhile, the sisters manage to escape and free many of the other inmates; with chaos all around, Warden Thorn orders her men to kill all of the prisoners.
While they're busy blasting unarmed women in their cells, Spyder pursues Kathie, gets a fork jammed in his eye for his trouble, and is ultimately impaled on a crowbar by Rhonda.While not quite as mean-spirited or as sexually graphic as some women-in-prison movies (especially those from Europe and South America), this cheesy, nudity-filled, karate choppin' dollop of low-budget silliness still offers enough random sleaze and violence to make it a good time for B-movie fans and women-in-prison aficionados.6.5 out 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb..
A WIP Flick featuring Erik Estrada and Ron Jeremy?
Innocent women wrongly convicted when they put too much trust into the wrong man are thrown into a hellish prison, where the only break they get from the sadistic lesbians gleefully conducting cavity searches and psychotic male guards smacking them around is when they're allowed to take a long, steamy showers.
Been there, done that, only "Caged Fury" has a twist, one that you'll decipher quickly enough on your own, and spend the rest of the movie wondering why the "prisoners" never catch on (the movie's explanation: women are stupid).
Also, it stars Erik Estrada.Our heroines are a pair of Utah farm girls, Cat (Roxanna Micheals) and Tracy (Elena Sahagan).
Tracy is the wild sister, the one who ran off to New York and came back looking like a mad scientist's experiment to transform LaToya Jackson into Pia Zadora, but retaining a country gal's love of baseball caps and acid-wash denim.
Despite their father's (Michael Parks) misgivings, Cat wants to follow in her big sister's footsteps, only she wants to go to L.A. instead of New York because she's independent that way.
Girls may go for Buck's studly good looks, but they stay for his charming style, such as when he asks his guest from Utah: "Cat, as in p—sy?" The movie's other conceit: the men of Los Angeles are sleazy pigs — except Erik Estrada and Richard Barathy, who rescue Cat from a biker gang rape at the ersatz metal club Buck takes the girls to (Buck would've saved her, but he was busy sexing up Rhonda in a realistically grimy/unrealistically roomy restroom).After Cat thanks Estrada for his chivalry with her body (hey, she pretty much HAS to), Buck takes the girls to an audition that's so intentionally cheesy the actors get eyestrain winking at the camera.
But just when Cat's about to catch on that she's auditioning for—gasp!—a porn video, she and Rhonda are booked on solicitation charges and sent to prison.
Lucky for Cat, her big sister Tracy's got her back.
Unfortunately, Tracy's not any smarter than she is, since Tracy's plan entails getting sent to the same prison and, well, she hasn't quite worked out all the details.
Guess it's up to Estrada and Barathy, the only decent men in all of L.A., to save them.
Uh-oh, Estrada gets shot and spends the last act in an ambulance being tended to by a sexy nurse.
So it's Barathy, with his lethal kick-boxing skills and luxurious mullet, who finally takes down the bad guys.
There is evidence it's trying to be a parody in the vein of "Reform School Girls," but its humor makes the women, not the genre, the butt of the joke.
Ty Randolph, as the dominatrix-outfitted warden, does what she can but she's no Pat Ast or Sybil Danning; and Ron Jeremy and Erik Estrada, who have lent camp cache to other direct-to-video projects, are given little to do here.
"Caged Fury" also doesn't cut it as exploitation.
Director Bill Milling has several adult video credits ("A Scent of Heather," "Blonde Goddess"), but with "Caged Fury" he stays safely inside the confines of an R-rating, not even daring to push into "hard-R" territory.
A guy who directed hardcore porn skimps on the sex scenes?
Guess Milling wanted people to see him as something other than a porn director, but sometimes it's best to stick with what you know..
This has got to be one of the funniest films of all time; featuring the most underrated action hero ever to grace the silver screen.
For those of you who have yet to watch this masterpiece, Dirk Ramsey is the MAN!
He is far superior to Spiderman; his intellect makes Batman look like a dunce, while his strength, even Superman would struggle against the might that is Ramsey.
Throw in sleazy Eric Estrada as his side-kick Victor, and you have all the ingredients for one hell of a viewing.
Also, all the 'ladies' on offer apart from Cat and Tracey Collins, are porn stars in real life, you've gotta love this film..
Prison porn.
Pure 80s cheese for fans of women's prison flicks.Kat (Roxanna Michaels), fresh off the farm, goes to L.A. to make it as an actress and gets thrown in a fake prison where the inmates are sold as sex slaves.
Her sister Tracy (Elena Sahagun) comes to her rescue, along with Erik Estrada and Richard Barathy as a mullet-ed beefcake that karate chops his way though everyone.
Of course, the two guys ride off into the sunset on their Harleys with the two women behind.Typical lesbian, leather-clad warden (Mindi Miller), huge sadistic matrons, shower scenes, simulated sexual scenes, and lots of fighting.
Lots of recognizable porn stars for the fans.For serious fans of this genre only..
Sweet innocent Kathie Collins (foxy Roxanna Michaels) and her rowdy gal pal Rhonda Wallace (a delightfully raucous April Dawn Dollarhide) are wrongfully incarcerated in a brutal women's penitentiary where the vicious staff led by sadistic lesbian Warden Sybil Thorn (essayed with lip-smacking wicked aplomb by Mindi Miller) grossly mistreat the fetching female inmates.
It's up to rough'n'tumble nonstop one man a**kicking martial arts machine Dick Ramsey (beefy wonder Richard Barathy, who sports a truly hideous mullet) to rescue the lovely ladies.
Wiatrak, a constant snappy pace, a wailin' 80's head-banging rock soundtrack, a pleasingly leering protracted shower scene, vigorously hammy overacting from a game cast, one doozy of a surprise plot twist (the prison is actually a front for a nefarious white slavery ring!), a funky, pumping score by Joe Delia, an exciting last reel jailbreak sequence, and a handy helping of tasty distaff gratuitous nudity (the gorgeous Elena Sahagun in particular looks positively delectable in her birthday suit).
Popping up in nifty supporting roles are Erik Estrada as Ramsey's rugged buddy Victor, Michael Parks as Kathie's overbearing dad Mr. Collins, Greg Cummins as slimy guard Spyder, Paul L.
Smith as the hulking brute head guard, Jack Carter as smarmy modeling agency big shot Mr. Castaglia, and James Hong as weary Detective Randall Stoner.
At least writer / director Bill Milling did his part in keeping the Women-In-Prison genre alive with his cheesy effort here.
Sweet and sexy Roxanna Michaels plays Kat Collins, a gal who moves to L.A. in the hopes of being an acting star, and manages to get herself "arrested" and sent to a prison where she and various other very attractive ladies are treated as sex slaves and even auctioned off to interested parties.
Her concerned older sister Tracy (Elena Sahagun) follows her trail determined to find out what happened.
Meanwhile, two detectives, played by Erik "Ponch" Estrada and hulking Richard Barathy, are on the case.
Whether he's kicking his way through a wall or confronting the massive head guard (Paul L.
Smith, 12 years after playing a not dissimilar role in "Midnight Express") or just "acting", the guy is full of entertainment value.
But there are enough other familiar faces on hand to help make this thing palatable: James Hong as a detective, Michael Parks as the father of the two girls, Jack Carter as a lecherous sleaze ball, Gregory Scott Cummins as ultra creepy guard Spyder, and even Ron Jeremy as one of the guards.
Jeremy isn't the only porn star to be seen, though, as there are others here acting under pseudonyms.
The soundtrack, featuring some rocking tunes by a group named Poison Dollys, is enjoyable, and as befitting any movie of this type, we do get an eyeful of our hottie inmates, striking sexy poses and dressed provocatively - when they are dressed; there's enough nudity to keep people happy.
The bottom line, though, is that this is all just depraved enough - and silly enough - to make for a good time for interested B movie aficionados.
A noticeable absence of any slickness (the movie does look pretty rough, overall) helps to accent the effective grindhouse appeal.
Note: Estrada, Smith, Hong, and Parks also all take an associate producer credit.
Charles Bronson looking dude becomes rambo in a women in prison film..
A very tame "women in prison film", there is a bit of nudity which let's face it, that's what you really watch these movies for.Believe or not the main lead girl actually shows her breasts!
The main kick of the film is Dirk Ramsey for sure, played by a famous martial artist.
Bad movie..
Meanwhile, the guard watches another prisoner and cuts a guy with a razor, the runner is trapped and brought back.
Kate Collins of Utah is not quite happy at home.
And so one day, despite the disapproval of his father and a little Sister Tracy, used in a car and leaving for a better future.
The next day, Kate and Rhonda are casting.
When Kate plays an erotic scene, and refuses to continue, after which she is attacked by the director with Rhona.
A court is taking place and the two girls end up in the village.
He's already in Tracy and looking for his sister.
Then Kate goes through the first "interrogation" in the prison.
Kate and Tracy will meet in the crime scene.
The Rhonin criminal will attack the warden and Kate on the guard .
But that's coming near here, Dick, who's getting rid of the guards.
If you are looking for cruelty and nudity, definitely choose another movie and that is it.
I actually never heard about Bill Milling before, but solely based on this movie he is already a true cult/exploitation hero in my book!
Because if you single-handedly realize the production of a film like "Caged Fury", which is basically a montage of severely perverted masculine fantasies, and then still manage to cast a handful of respectable actors (like Michael Parks, Paul Smith, James Hong and Erik Estrada), well then you are one cool bastard; and that's a fact!
Milling had been making adult-entertainment movies since the mid-70s already, but ended his career in the late 80s and early 90s with a couple of cheap and sleazy exploitation movies.
"Caged Fury" is clearly inspired by the successful trend of so- called "Women in Prison" movies, even though the heyday of that particular cult sub-genre was already long over by then, and that basically means that the plot and logic are subordinate to showing naked flesh and gratuitous violence!
The artistic high points in the film thus exist of scantily clad blond babes worming themselves through narrow ventilation shafts and images of the lesbian head- warden parading around in kinky S&M outfits.
And yet, somehow I'm deeply persuaded that "Caged Fury" could have been a much better film and even a sleeper hit if only Milling & Co tried a bit harder.
The cute and innocent Kathie Collins leaves her countryside home and overbearing father to make it as an actress in Hollywood!
She naturally meets up with the wrong people, wrongfully gets accused of prostitution and ends up for 3-6 months in a secluded woman's prison.
Their fate lies in the hands of Kung-Fu macho duo Victor (Ponch from "CHiPs") and Dirk Ramsey (a weirdo with an impressive mullet and mustache), as they slowly discover that the prison is merely just a cover-up for a girl-slaves trading organization.
Apart from the couple of impressive aforementioned names, the cast mainly just exists of adult film stars, like the inevitable Ron Jeremy or the luscious Janine Lindemulder.
Cummins and Paul Smith as misogynist prison guards, but the real hero obviously remains Dirk "Mullet" Ramsey.
He's a late 80s action symbol who kicks in cement walls with his bare feet and seduces all the pretty women even though he's one of the ugliest people in the world.
Best part of the film is unquestionably the ending, when it suddenly gets revealed that this so-called prison institution is located right in the center of Hollywood Boulevard!