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DPP 72cult
Director
Gregory Goodell
Year
1979
Country
USA
Runtime
78 min

Also released as

  • Beyond the Gate
  • Women in Prison
  • Experimentos humanos
  • Electro Choc
  • 女子刑務所・恐怖の人体実験

Human Experiments

Human Experiments is a 1979 American horror film directed by Gregory Goodell. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.

A women-in-prison film with a brainwashing subplot. Linda Haynes deserved better material.

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A women-in-prison film with a brainwashing subplot, and Linda Haynes deserved much better material than she ever got.

A country singer breaks down in a small town, walks into a house full of corpses and is convicted of the murders. The prison psychiatrist is using inmates to test a technique that regresses them to infancy.

The idea is interesting and the film is two things stapled together: a fairly standard prison picture and a much stranger science-fiction premise that only becomes the plot in the last third.

Haynes gives a real performance and quit acting a few years later.

Listed and dropped without prosecution. It has not been released in the UK since.

Banned, seized, prosecuted

DPP 72 · listed, then dropped

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