Hellhole | |
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Directed by | Pierre De Moro |
Written by | Aaron Butler (as Vincent Mongol) |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Steven Posey |
Edited by | Stephen Butler |
Music by | Jeff Sturges |
Distributed by | Arkoff International Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes [1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Hellhole is a 1985 American exploitation women-in-prison film film directed by Pierre De Moro and starring Ray Sharkey, Judy Landers, Marjoe Gortner, Edy Williams, and Mary Woronov. It was distributed by Arkoff International Pictures, [2] marking the studio's final theatrical release. [1]
After seeing her mother murdered by a killer, Susan, an amnesiac woman, is sent to a mental institution presided over by Dr. Fletcher, a power-crazed female doctor who performs lobotomies on the patients.
Principal photography of Hellhole began in Los Angeles on July 2, 1984. [3] Director Tom DeSimone directed additional footage after principal photography was completed, though he is not credited. [3]
The film was released theatrically by Arkoff International Pictures on March 15, 1985. [3]
Shout! Factory cancelled its original plans to release the film on DVD and Blu-Ray due to the film having missing footage, but it has since been released on Blu-Ray in late 2016 by Scream Factory, a subsidiary of Shout Factory. [4]
Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times panned the film, writing that it is "hard to think up anything else nice to say about a film that is so crammed with tawdry sex scenes (mostly between women), drug use, sadomasochism, frontal nudity and bad acting." [5]