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Welcome back to B-Movie Enema and the continuation of the Amazon Jail saga with Conrado Sanchez’s Amazon Jail 2!

This month, we’ve got a set of releases from Vinegar Syndrome in 2023. We looked at the first film of the Amazon Jail duology last week. We finish that up this week and move on to some more fun next week. We’re going to be able to get right into the movie very quickly because these movies are wildly obscure so there’s not much of note I can really dive into in the background.

I will follow up on what I discussed for a short bit last week and say this comes from the later days of the Mouth of Garbage exploitation movement in Brazil. That began in the 70s out of Sao Paulo and tackled sex comedies for the most part as well as horror and action films. By this time, a regime change in Brazil led to the loosening of censorship in cinema so porno films began to be produced by the time Amazon Jail 2 was released.

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Welcome to this week’s B-Movie Enema!

You know what? I’m kind of excited this week. Why? We’re going to look at some old favorites in terms of a distributor and subgenres. First up, we have a return from Vinegar Syndrome. What a heck of a boutique distributor of physical media. If you have a desire to see obscure horror and thrillers, sexploitation films, or general exploitation from other countries, there’s no one better.

I’ve got a ton of their releases. I’m not one of those types who gets everything from them, but I have a fair amount of their releases. Let’s be honest… They are a wonderful pipeline for content on this blog. So, when they put out some kooky releases in 2023, I had to jump on board with the entire intent to feature it here in February 2024.

In that release slate for 2023, there was a two-pack that we’re diving into this week and next. We start things off with Amazon Jail from Oswaldo de Oliveira. This was the final film of Brazillian director de Oliveira as he would die five years later at the age of 58 or 59. He worked as a cinematographer, writer, director, and occasionally appeared in some of his films. He comes from Brazil’s “Mouth of Garbage” movement. I feel like I should put quotation marks around or italicize the word movement here, but I trust Vinegar Syndrome’s tastes and film analysis. Apparently, we’re going to be in for a hell of a ride with this subgenre of Brazilian cinema as this is a movement that produced a whole lotta crazy genre films that included horror, action, sex comedies, and pornography.

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