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This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Suspiria Vilchez) is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

From the creative team behind DELIRIUM magazine comes DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO, a brand new label designed to bring some of the silver screen's strangest and sexiest cinema to your ever-expanding collection. Carefully curated by DELIRIUM's own editor-in-chief, DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO's unique library will explore both hard and softcore erotica, bizarre and bloody European exploitation fare, operatic international horror, obscure dark fantasy and much, much more, with each title presented in stunning HD and packed with all-new special features. Get ready for a wild ride!

One of notorious Eurosleaze auteur Jess Franco and producer Erwin C. Dietrich's most shocking films,1976's Barbed Wire Dolls is the ultimate unholy “Women-in-Prison” exploitation opus. In it, Franco favorite and lifelong muse Lina Romay (Doriana Gray, Rolls Royce Baby) stars as the wide-eyed Maria, an unfortunate young woman who kills her father (played by Franco in a delirious flashback sequence) in self defense after he attempts to rape her. She is tried, sentenced and shipped off to what is perhaps the grisliest, greasiest and most depraved women’s penitentiary in screen history where, at the hands, fingers and fists of psychotic lesbian warden Monica Swinn (The Duke of Burgundy, Female Vampire), she and her fellow inmates are subjected to an endless onslaught of perverse psychological and sexual abuse.

Filled to the gills with sex, Sapphic erotica, copious amounts of female nudity and offensively staged scenes of genital humiliation, this sleazy Franco masterpiece will rattle your cage in the sweetest way...

directed by: Jess Franco
starring: Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Eric Falk
1976 / 79 min / 1.85:1 / English, German DTS-HD MA 5.1, 2.0

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Region A Blu-ray
COMMENTARY BY DELIRIUM MAGAZINE COLUMNIST DENNIS DANIEL
TRAILER REEL
INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR PETER STRICKLAND ON THE FILMS OF JESS FRANCO
SISTERS IN THE SLAMMER: THE WOMEN IN PRISON FILMS OF JESS FRANCO
INTERVIEW: JESS FRANCO, LINA ROMAY and ERWIN C. DIETRICH
English SDH subtitles

Overall rating: 4.470588 / 5 from 17 reviews.

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Another Great Delirium Title

"Your mileage may vary with Delirium Uncle Jess releases but this is one I have wanted to see for years and it didn’t disappoint!"

— Eli O. (5/5)

Did Jess Franco invent bullet time?

"Before The Matrix actors had to actually move in slow motion to achieve the kind of immersive spectacle we now take for granted. Also the slip cover art is gorgeous!"

— Joshua G. (4/5)

Nudity

"Nudity, nudity, and more nudity. No plot."

— Aaron M. (5/5)

Among Jess Franco's best smut

"Barbed Wire Dolls is not only smut, it's a good movie. Probably one of the best of this kind of thing from Franco. Buy with confidence."

— Michael W. (4/5)

Uncle Jess on a roll

"I hope these releases never end."

— Mike M. (5/5)

Enjoyed this

"If you like boobs and a thin plot this is for you. I didn't mind the movie but it was short, any longer and I may see it differently."

— Marco A. (5/5)

Against the Masterpiece

"Jess Franco made roughly two hundred films and the critical apparatus has never recovered. We are trained to locate the singular achievement, the crowning work, the one you hand to the skeptic. Franco offers no such thing. He offers instead a continuous condition — a body of work that must be entered rather than surveyed, and BARBED WIRE DOLLS is as good a door as any. The women-in-prison picture is among the most rigidly formulated genres ever devised, which is precisely why Franco's indifference to it is so revealing. He has no interest in the machinery of escape, the earned catharsis, the third-act uprising. He drifts. The zoom lens hunts across faces and bars and foliage with an impatience that has nothing to do with coverage and everything to do with a temperament. Scenes dissolve into reverie mid-scene. The plot is a pretext and Franco never pretends otherwise. Lina Romay does not give a performance in any sense the term usually implies. She submits to the film, entirely, and the result is closer to documentary than to acting. The material is genuinely ugly and the film does not soften it. This is Franco at his least ingratiating and his most characteristic. Approach accordingly, and gratefully."

— chris b. (5/5)

Jess's best WIP movie

"One of Franco's more accessible movies. As ever, I wish we had the German soundtrack, but still great to see it on Blu-ray."

— Richard B. (4/5)

Enjoyable eurosleaze

"I am not the biggest Jess Franco fan but found this particular film to be enjoyable sleaze."

— KEVIN D. (4/5)

More Franco madness

"The discoveries continues thanks to Delirium. More gorgeous cover art as well."

— Gav R. (4/5)