Chained Heat contains every stereotyped character, every impossible (or at the very least improbable) plot point, and every bit of risible dialogue you have ever seen and heard in every other women-in-prison movie, pumps them up tenfold, and unleashed them in a never-ending barrage on your senses.

And yet for all that, its a movie thats virtually impossible to dislike.

It seems to make up for all its shortcomings by never, ever being boring, unlike many other examples of the genre.

Star Linda Blair says that the script kept getting re-written and that the film ended up not resembling the script she had originally signed up for.

That included adding several nude scenes, including her topless shower scene.

She didnt want to do it, but producers told her, Well, if you dont do it, youre never gonna work again.

The boom microphone is visible multiple times during the movie.

The 1986 and 1990 UK video versions were cut by 1 min 38 secs by the BBFC to remove the rape before the fight on the roof and to heavily edit fight scenes including groin kicks, face slaps and a womans head being hit against a window.

Some fight cuts were restored in the 1998 MIA video release though most of the original BBFC edits were retained.

The 2006 Anchor Bay DVD had been heavily pre-edited and was missing the BBFC cuts along with some other edits.

Chained Heat 1983 Rapidshare