★★★½ CAGED FURY

 

Directed by Bill Miling.

Cast: Erik Estrada, Richie Barathy, Roxanna Michaels, Paul Smith, James Hong, Melissa Moore, Ron Jeremy, Tiffany Million

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Veteran exploitation actor Michael Parks is a concerned father who is scared at the possibility of his daughter Kat (Roxanna Michaels) heading to evil L.A. After a failed attempt at getting big sister Tracy (Elena Sahagun) to tag along, Dad gives up his ambitions of Kat taking a part time job and singing in the church choir. On her way to L.A. she runs into Rhonda (April Dawn Dollarhide!) in the process of escaping some redneck loving expectations that can arise when young girls hitchhike. Rhonda leads Kat to her sleazy boyfriend Buck's photography loft where he convinces the gals to go to a glam metal/biker bar/strip club for some kicks.

While Buck and Rhonda have simulated heavy metal video sex in the shit shack, Kat gets thrown into the alley and nearly gang raped by an entire biker gang. Seeing it's the wussiest thugs in L.A., Ex-Chips star Erik Estrada and his Rambo wannabee friend show up and kick the farts out of the entire motorcycle club, all to the sucky tunes of a band called the Poison Dollys! Close your eyes folks because then you get to see the horror of Ponch's big fake upper grill rubbing against the grateful luscious lips of actress Roxanna Michaels. A truly gut wrenching display that equals the worst war crime atrocities that ever took place in Love Camp 7. Buck gets the gals an audition with a film producer who sets them. Before you can say bogus casting couch, Kat and Rhonda are arrested for prostitution, hauled off to a fake court, and sentenced to do time in a fake prison.

This is where the fun begins. When Warden Sybil Thorn (Ty Randolph), whose name is an obvious homage to Sybil Danning and Dyanne Thorne, isn't forcing carpet licks out of the inmates, she is prostituting them out. There is even more debauchery led by Spyder the serial rapist prison guard who decides the gals release dates based on sexual favours. Eventually the girls get wise that they are not in a state run prison, and that when you get released you wind up looking out a ziplock. Estrada's Rambo friend finds the digs, beats up the entire white slave staff, and leads the girls out of the abandoned studio set like Ricky Oh. The lead actress gets to gore it out with Spyder, and the prison guards waste half the inmates! Director Bill Milling finds the right combination here of garish lighting, sexy girls, high camp, violence, and cheese.

An awareness of the genre is always present during the proceedings. One actress states, "I saw this in Chained Heat!" , and actor Paul Smith even shows up and does his Midnight Express shtick! Caged Fury has plenty to offer WIP aficionado from a hilariously over acted strip search scene to the genre cameos from Ron Jeremy (One of the films Producers), Melissa Moore, and James Hong (Blade Runner). You can tell that there is a serious love of WIP films at work here that is absent in most modern genre outings.