With all the gore/sleaze/trash that I watch - I've honestly only watched a handful of WIP films. Much like the Nazisploit genre, I typically find them to be underwhelming and relatively tame for what could be an extremely exploitative concept. BARE BEHIND BARS is better than most, in the fact that the film is pretty much wall-to-wall sex-n'-sleaze. Still relatively "hollow", and it's definitely not reinventing the wheel storywise - but at least there's more boobs, butts, and bushes than you can shake a billy-stick at...The premise of BBB is nothing new. Girls in prison (almost always nekkid) fighting, having lesbo sex, being whipped and "punished", etc...There's a barely-explored side-story of a slavery ring amongst the prisoners that never amounts to anything, and of course the obligatory escape attempt that turns sour...As far as "plot" - that's pretty much all you get with this one. There are some highlights - the ether-huffing inept nurse steals the show whenever she's on-screen with her goofy antics. As far as sleaze-content, there are some explicit blow-jobs and even a brief hardcore sex scene at the end for those that count that as a "plus" (and of course I do...). The end of the film where the escape takes place amps things up a bit - as three of the prisoners escape, decide to party it up during Carnivale, and then break into a home and penectomize a man(then throw his severed dong to the family dog to get it to stop barking), shoot his wife, and molest his son (ungraphically of course - but still pretty sleazily). There's another forced-wiener-removal a few minutes later (where the amputated member is shoved into the amputee's mouth to shut him up), and then of course the moralistic ending where one of the escapees is killed and the two others end up back in jail. Overall, BARE BEHIND BARS is pretty hollow stuff even for this genre - but it turns up the sex quite a bit and throws in a healthy dose of violence at the end, and honestly - that's what we watch this crap for. More entertaining than most - rated against other such films - 8/10 from me...

This may be the worst Women in prison flick i've ever seen. The movie is wall to wall sex and after a while it stops being a Women in prison movie and just becomes a softcore (slightly hardcore) porno.Now i don't necessarily object to softcore films, but when i watch a WIP movie, i have certain expectations. There are certain genre conventions that should probably be followed. Most of these films have a slightly teasing nature about the sex and most have much denser stories than this one. This is not a genre where plot is all that important, but the story here is weak even when you keep that in mind. There is no story at all. It's just a series of scenes with lots of nudity. The acting is terrible, the characters are all weak and predictable. There is very little humor... The film tries to be funny, but fails utterly. There is very little action, it just meanders from one sex scene to another. It's just pure drudgery once you get bored with all the sex and their's so much of it, that won't take very long.The director of this film is one of the blandest i have ever seen. There is no sense of visual style, no atmosphere. All the lighting is flat, all the editing utterly conventional. There is nothing interesting about the camera work and most scenes play out in a boring, predictable fashion. The pacing is horrid... It's basically shot with less artistry than most porno films. It's lacks any sense of style at all. As a softcore film, I suppose it succeeds to some degree but it's almost too mean spirited to be erotic.. As a WIP film, it lacks any pretension of underlying substance or plot, and the film doesn't benefit from the absence.Watch "The Big Bird Cage" instead to see how these movies are supposed to be made. It's full of fun and interesting characters, has a much more substantial story and while there are fewer sex scenes and less nudity, what's there has a greater impact than anything "Bare behind bars" has to offer. Even a film like "Emmanuelle in prison" which is only a middling effort in the WIP genre, is still ten times better than this one.

With a title like BARE BEHIND BARS, I was expecting little more than a tawdry sleazefest with plenty of T&A. Well, BBB has plenty of that, as the title implies, and the first two-thirds of the movie is basically the relatively innocuous schlock I was anticipating.But the final act has three of the female prisoners escaping and going on a rampage through the surrounding town, and their exploits get much nastier and more vile than I was mentally prepared to see.Inside the prison, we get multiple cavity searches, shower scenes, shots of prisoners sitting on the filthy excuse for a toilet in their cell, catfights, medical exams and plenty of lesbian erotica. It's your standard WIP stuff, maybe a tad more tacky than usual.But once in the free world, the trio of female prisoners attack a family in their home. After killing the father and mother, there is a rather alarming scene in which the women strip naked and sexually molest a pre-teen boy! Bet you've never seen anything like that in a Hollywood flick! The three women separate. One tries to move back in with her mother, another tries to start her life over again with a local guy, and the third seems content to continue torturing and killing people. In one scene, she is making out with a huge, hairy guy and suddenly gets the urge to castrate him with her trusty razor blade (which, now that she's escaped, no longer has to be stored up her rectum). It gives the castration scene in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE a run for its money.You'll have plenty of bare behinds, breasts and, well, everything in this movie. It chugs along at a swift pace and never gets boring, but the finale is shockingly gruesome and nasty, so be ready for that. It's no ILSA, but it certainly does deliver.

If you are a fan of endless lesbian orgies this film may be exactly the right stuff for you: see naked chicks having sex in their prison cells, under the shower, with the female attendants... here and there even some short hardcore sequences are brought on. There are some quite tame torture scenes and a subplot about the trade with female slaves, which is not further developed..!"Bare behind bars" is probably the best WIP (stands for "Women-In-Prison")-flick ever made, because it doesn´t take itself too serious and it´s often full of unconscious humor! The best scenes has this weird Marilyn Monroe-like nurse, who uses an ananas as her dildo and exploits the female prisoners as their sex-bunnies.If you want to know why this film is banned in countries like the U.K. or Germany check out the last third, which is the grossest part of this movie! Three outlaws are able to escape and on their run they murder a family, just for drinks and food. The climax of this crime is when one of the girls castrates the dead husband and feeds the cut off dick to his pesky barking dog..! Another castration-scene is featured some minutes later... However, there´s no happy ending for the girls: two of them return to prison, the third one becomes a prostitute and gets shot by her pimp..!"Bare behind bars" belongs to those movies you may need a shower after watching it. Nevertheless it can be pretty entertaining if you have a sense for such films. If you like WIP-flicks try to find Jess Franco´s "Sadomania", too!!