A film in feminist reading of the vulgar genre of the 'women's prison film', which without voyeurism tells of violence among women and their relationships with each other.A film in feminist reading of the vulgar genre of the 'women's prison film', which without voyeurism tells of violence among women and their relationships with each other.A film in feminist reading of the vulgar genre of the 'women's prison film', which without voyeurism tells of violence among women and their relationships with each other.
- Mac
- (as Amanda Symonds)
- Doreen
- (as Debbie Bishop)
- Gwen
- (as Rachael Weaver)
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Passed about of time so I can't complain as I've saw worse and am subjected to worse on a nightly basis with soaps.
Probably wouldn't watch it again.
But when all is said and done this a very poor follow up to SCUM mainly because of three reasons
1 ) The poor acting . Despite being a low budget movie the cast of SCUM at least played their parts with intensity especially Ray Winstone . There`s no such acting tour de force here and if memory serves me right much of the acting is plain awful
2 ) There`s no real stand out scene as in SCUM that people discuss like the scene in the greenhouse . There are slightly sickening scenes like the puppet show but they`re unconvincing and seem written in to shock a blase audience . Mind you could say the same with the greenhouse scene in scum so I don`t know if it`s a valid criticism
3 ) What is a valid criticism is that there`s no great lines to qoute in SCRUBBERS . Try discussing SCUM without saying " Where`s yer tool ? " or " I`m the daddy now " or " You want f***in` stripping ? "
A needless and inferior follow up to SCUM probably made to cash in on the success of the 1979 film which became a massive hit on video round about the same time
Title (Brazil): 'Aonde Nasce o Crime' ('Where The Crime is Born')
Did you know
- TriviaThe movie was inspired by the success of the earlier prison picture Scum (1979) made and released years about three years earlier. Whereas that gaol film had male inmates this film instead featured female jailbirds. The two movies are considered companion pieces, this film even being referred to as a sequel of sorts; the two films share a number of same and similar story elements common to both movies.
- Quotes
Mac: [Mac's final song] A Borstal girl came home one day / To find her love had gone away / She asked him why he went astray / He turned to her, and he did say / "Once, you could have been my wife / If you had led a decent life / But you preferred a life of crime / So, back in side, and do your time."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Eleventh Hour: Sex and Violence in Women's Prisons (1984)
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- Black-Out im Höllen-Paradies
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- 1h 33m(93 min)
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- 1.85 : 1