Crew
Director – Jeff Leroy, Screenplay – Vincent Bilancio & Jeff Leroy, Photography – Nicholas Melillo, Music – Iliana Rose & David Zasloff, Special Effects – Eric Flenner, John Lechango & Jeff Leroy, Werewolf Effects – Monster FX (Design – Ron Karkoska), Production Design – Aaron Habibipour. Production Company – Me Films/VMovies.
Cast
Victoria De Mare (Sarah), Eva Derreck (Rachel), Vincent Bilancio (Jack), Domi Arcangeli (Juan), Jackeline Oliver (Rita), Kristen Zaik (Crystal), Neto DePaula Pimenta (Garcia), Al Burke (Badger). Yurizan Beltran (Kelly), Bernadette Perez (Serina), Sindy Tilson (BB)
Plot
Sarah is on a camping holidaying with her boyfriend Jack in Campuna, Mexico when they are attacked by a wolf creature. Jack is killed but Sarah throws a bottle of vodka that has silver flavouring at the wolf, killing it, not before she is bitten. She comes around in a Mexican jail, accused of killing Jack. In the prison, she faces the corrupt warden and warders who trade sex for favours and demand that the girls pose nude for the internet. Jack’s ghost appears to Sarah, warning her that she is going to turn into a werewolf. A prisoner in her cell, Sarah is unable to do anything as she begins to transform under the light of the full moon.
Werewolf in a Womens Prison comes from director Jeff Leroy who has been prolific in low-budget horror cinema since the late 1990s, having also made Eyes of the Werewolf (1999), Hunting Season (2000), The Screaming (2000), Hell’s Highway (2002), Creepies (2004), Unseen Evil 2 (2004), Creepies 2 (2005), The Witch’s Sabbath (2005), Psychon Invaders (2006), Rat Scratch Fever (2011), Aliens vs Titanic (2017), Giantess Attack (2017) and Giantess Attack vs Mecha Fembot (2019).
Werewolf in a Womens Prison (where women’s is spelt without an apostrophe) is a film where you cannot complain that it is exactly what the film promises to be. It is a Werewolf Film and it is set in a women’s prison. The Women in Prison film was a lurid exploitation genre that took off in the 1970s after the success of Caged Heat (1974) with a series of films that placed a focus on sadistic warders and plentiful lesbian sex scenes in a women’s prison. Indeed, Werewolf in a Womens Prison proved of such success that Jeff Leroy subsequently went onto conduct various other monsters in women’s/womens prison films with Dracula in a Women’s Prison (2017) and Frankenstein in a Women’s Prison (2017).
Expectedly, the film promptly heads for exploitation territory. There are assorted actresses who have all appeared in numerous B-budget horror, exploitation and softcore roles, usually with their clothes off, including porn model Yurizan Beltran. All of these girls get their clothes off at regular intervals throughout (although nothing that ever goes beyond bare boobs).
Werewolf in a Womens Prison is not a film that is making any effort towards realism – and this actually becomes one of its more redeemingly entertaining aspects. Guard Jackeline Oliver wanders around in fetish gear cracking a whip. Victoria De Mare asks the warden for her phone call and picks up the phone only receive an electric shock through the handle. She is taken away for her prison mugshot where she is then ordered to strip off, while the photographer starts taking topless shots as she is ordered to scrabble about for coins tossed on the floor, where she is told that this is going to be placed on the internet.
It has all been conducted on a low-budget. The werewolf effects look cheap and tatty where the wolf appears to have simply been given red lights for eyes. In an effect that has been directly copied from Griffin Dunne in An American Werewolf in London (1981), Victoria De Mare’s dead boyfriend Vincent Bilancio turns up in an increasingly decaying state giving her dire warnings about what is going to happen.
Trailer here