StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Irishchatter I can't tell you how angry I am that this movie caused me to be. I was like what kind of law would not notice this prison and not shut it down. It is such a cruel place to be in, I don't know how these poor women put up with this?!Racism, abuse,self harm, murder,torture and rape were amongst these things involved in the movie that would bring awareness to people that this is still happening! It shows us we have to put in an end to this type of crime that people are up against. It does break your heart, our society doesn't know how to lift this and the only way to stop this is to fight for your human rights. This movie really gives a good example on how any type of people can be treated, not just black people but white people too.

preppy-3 Originally aired as an ABC Movie of the Week. This involves two young innocent female college students who are railroaded into a prison camp in a little Southern town. They aren't allowed phone calls and nobody knows they're there. What follows is rape, torture, beatings, humiliation and degradation leading to a very disturbing conclusion.The TV version was (for its time) grim. No nudity and the beatings were pretty tame but the overall feeling of sleaziness wore one down. The unrated version is even worse--there's plentiful nudity, the violence is extreme and, in one particularly disgusting sequence, we see a crying female prisoner forced to strip while a lesbian guard "uses" her. YUCK! There's nothing wrong with exploitation films but this one just goes over the brink. You get the feeling that the filmmakers enjoy having these poor women being tortured and degraded--all this is shoved in your face like you're supposed to enjoy it. The needlessly downbeat ending doesn't help.I'm giving it a 3 because the acting is good--but that actually makes the movie harder to watch. A sick, sleazy film. Not recommended.

bfjrnski Contains Spoilers!! Nightmare in Badham County was originally shown as a TV movie.But a later "theatrical" version has turned in video stores.This "theatrical" version has added only a few scenes of fronal nudity and lesbian brutality.But these scenes succeed in making "Nightmare in Badham County" little more than a sleazy,girlie-prison video flick! The TV version (which by now might air on the late-late show) remains a much more tame and more gripping drama.One that leaves the viewer shocked and saddened... The story involves two college girls-Kathy and Diane.Best friends on summer vacation touring through the "deep south".The only problem is that Kathy is white and Diane is black.They happen to encounter car trouble in a small,remote,rural town in which black folks still live in subservience and repression.After telling off the local,bigotted sheriff he arranges their incarceration in a local jailhouse.And after raping the black girl he succeeds in having them sentenced to "30 days" in the local prison farm. This squalid prison farm is run by a wealthy and sleazy warden and the "guards" are actually rifle-toting trustees.The blacks and whites are kept in separate barracks but are treated equally badly!The work is long,hot,and back-breaking.The food is virtually non-existent.Blacks and whites are forbidden to even speak to each other.The trustees are tough andcold.In the complete absence of the nudity and lesbianism of the video version we the TV viewers are able to feel the unbearable heat,hunger,and desperation of Kathy and Diane's plight!Sex is not a way out for them.They're only hope is escape!And escape only results in Kathy's eventual freedom.Diane is killed.And we learn that she is not the only one to die at the hands of Badham County!

Vince-5 Combining horror and women-in-chains elements, this little gem is quite scary indeed. The star-studded cast is in great form, with many effectively cast against type--Della Reese as a prisoner with an almost-broken spirit, Robert Reed as a perverted rapist, and especially Tina Louise as a sadistic trustee. Deborah Raffin and Lynne Moody--two highly underrated actresses--are very sympathetic, and the film has a cheap, seedy atmosphere reminscent of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left.Nightmare in Badham County was shown theatrically, in a much more explicit version, outside of the U.S. This version is available on videotape and is the one I've seen. It's memorably depraved, with brutality and full-frontal nudity abounding. One skin-crawling scene in this version has a naked, repulsive lesbian guard (Lana Wood, I think) exchanging food for sex with a terrified inmate. Another has Louise pawing and whipping a naked girl. Still another has a large group of women wrestling in a field until a hose is turned on them; clothes are ripped, and one woman's panties fall down as she stands up. This version could've been a big drive-in hit in the States, but alas, it was shown here only as an ABC movie of the week.Whichever version you get, this oppressively grim torture epic is worth watching if you're an exploitation fan. An obscure cult classic with a very powerful ending.