Have you ever found yourself wishing there were more women’s prison movies made after 1980? If you have, then brace yourselves, because the folks at Entertainment One are about to provide with Sugar Boxx, a movie that proves just because the idea is old, it may not necessarily be bad. But neither is it necessarily good.

Sugar Boxx follows intrepid undercover reporter Valerie March, who’s heading out to the Sugar State Women’s Correctional Facility–the titular Sugar Box–where March believes there’s a prostitution ring operating under the cover of a prison. And now, she’ll have to discover if there’s any truth to it by getting herself arrested on prostitution charges.

Considering that the DVD box features the tagline “Prisoners. Hookers. Machetes. Revenge!”, I kind of get the feeling there will be a prostitution ring in there.

Whatever you think going in, you can be pretty much assured that this is going to be a whole lot like the women’s prison movies of the seventies. This is full on exploitation film we’re talking about here. Long on blood, long on attractive women in various states of undress, and short on anything resembling actual plot or decent dialogue.

It’s like they pulled this whole and breathing out of 1974, complete with special appearance by recently-deceased actress Tura Satana of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! fame. It’s almost a crying shame that this is her last role. Sadly, the travel to twenty seven years in the future has left this movie looking peaked and ragged, with most of its graces worn away by sheer repetition and all of its vices looking fully blossomed.

I’ll give them this much, though, the last fifteen minutes of this little exploitation redux are going to be an absolute explosion of improbable dialogue, ludicrous plot twists, equally ludicrous mayhem and patently preposterous bloodshed. It’s not every movie that can be described like that, so take it for what it’s worth.

In fact, the last fifteen minutes are so ludicrous as to be downright comical. You’ve never seen so many women act badly with machetes, ever.

You’re going to need an intense resistance toward horrible dialogue and terrible acting, but if you have that, Sugar Boxx will prove to be a hilarious, and thoroughly awful romp.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Entertainment One’s Sugar Boxx a sweet six out of ten for being a comically bad exploitation romp in the grandest spirit of comically bad exploitation romps. It’s everything you’d expect a horrible, horrible women’s prison movie to be, and just a little more besides.