“Escape from Women’s Prison”

Exactly like Terrence Stamp reprising his role from "Poor Cow" 32 years later in "The Limey," ex-con Ashley Blue reinhabits her character from 2003's "Bitches Behind Bars" in "Escape from Women's Prison." (Scientists have proven that five years in porn is like three decades in the outside world - just look at 2006 AVN Performer of the Year Sassy McSassypants.)

Escape from Women's Prison

This is a story about redemption.

Matt comes home to find stranger Ashley Blue smoking a cigarette. "Dad's not home," she says.

"Who the fuck are you?" he says.

"An old friend," she says, exhaling. "You're pretty cute. They'd like you in prison. Would you like to see my pussy?"

Thus begins Escape from Women's Prison, a movie that neatly straddles the gap between a B-movie you wish had more sex in it and a porn movie you wish didn't look so much like a goddamn porn movie. And for Ashley Blue it is the role of a lifetime, an excellent example of her self-fulfilling prophecy style of acting: she speaks abusively and is then fucked abusively.

She forces Matt to fuck her "prison style." You see, she has been there.

"Suck my toes, Prison Boy," she says. "Don't rip my stockings, though. I got them for free when I left prison."

Then:

"Get off me! Is that the best you can do? Don't make me reach up there and slap you! Come on, you worthless fucker! Do I have to fuck myself? What are you doing? Am I too creepy?"

Yes, Ashley. Prison has made you creepy. Because Escape from Women's Prison is actually an updating of 2003's Bitches Behind Bars, a movie that Powers said was not edited the way he would have liked. So he took footage from the original movie, which starred then-porn neophyte Blue, and updated it with new scenes, using the old movie as flashback material.

Blue is paying Matt a visit because his father (Johnny Thrust) was the incompetent lawyer of her prison girlfriend, Maggie.

In flashbacks, we meet Maggie and Blue's fellow prisoners. We share Blue's anguish at having to make her own marital aids in the prison woodshop.

"Is this a shank?" a guard asks, holding a sharpened baseball bat.

"No," she admits. "It's a dildo."

Naturally, the guard makes her prove it. And he's not the only one. Warden Rod Fontana shows a different side from his genial Skipper. In fact, there are no prison employees who don't take sexual advantage of the inmates. It is hard to believe in such circumstances that California's prison guards have the gall to threaten to recall Governor Schwarzenegger for more pay. Look at the perks!

In all, the new scenes look better than the old ones (save for a nice bit of bluster from Fontana), and the update provides a rare look at how five years looks on a porn performer. For Blue, who never got implants, the half-decade interval seems to have not happened at all.

She and Thrust (whose day job is as Powers' production manager) are the only cast members who return and, as far as I can tell, only they, Ben English, and Fontana are still in the adult business.

So why has Blue visited the home of her prison buddy's lawyer? For some horrifying revenge. But you should see the movie to find out what that is.

Studio: Powersville
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Ashley Blue, Jasmine Lynne, Maggie Star, Egypt, Ashley Moore, Rafe, Ben English, Rod Fontana, Johnny Thrust

Review by: Gram Ponante

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