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
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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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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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