Human Experiments

Human Experiments
Directed by Gregory Goodell
Produced by Gregory Goodell
Written by Gregory Goodell
Starring Linda Haynes
Geoffrey Lewis
Ellen Travolta
Aldo Ray
Jackie Coogan
Lurene Tuttle
Distributed by Crown International Pictures - USA
Jaguar (World of Video 2000) - UK
Release dates
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
 78 minutes 26 seconds
Country United States
Language English

Human Experiments is a women in prison film (also known as Beyond The Gate and Women In Prison) starring Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis and Ellen Travolta. It is director/writer/producer Gregory Goodell's only feature film to be released in cinemas,[1] this film earned its notoriety for being targeted by England's Director of Public Prosecutions during the video nasty furore in the early 1980s. Although it was listed on the first video nasty list issued by the DPP on July 4, 1983, the film was never prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act[2] and had originally been given an uncut (now defunct[3]) X rating by the BBFC for theatrical release in 1979.[4]

Plot Synopsis

Rachel Foster (Linda Haynes) is a country singer travelling alone through the United States. She resists the advances of lechrous bar owner Mat Tibbs (Aldo Ray) and in her hurry to leave town, she wrecks her car. Looking for help, she finds what appears to be an abandoned house - but in fact it's the scene of a grisly multiple homicide perpetrated by a young boy. Railroaded into prison by the bar owner's brother Sheriff Tibbs (Jackie Coogan), the innocent musician finds herself at the mercy of prison psychiatrist Doctor Kline (Geoffrey Lewis). Kline has some very radical techniques for "curing" criminality, and after a failed escape attempt she undergoes his treatment and loses her mind.

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  2. ↑ "Morris, Marc and Nigel Wingrove: The Art of the Nasty. Godalming: FAB Press, 2009, page 36. ISBN 9781903254578".
  3. ↑ "British Film Institute website". Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  4. ↑ "British Board of Film Classification website". Retrieved 2012-04-30.

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