Nightmare in Badham County (1976)

Directed by

John Llewellyn Moxey

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two college women on a road trip are wrongly sent to a prison farm in a corrupt Southern town. They struggle to survive abuse from the warden and other officials.

tensebleakgrimoppressiveslow-burndisturbingclaustrophobicanxious

What happens

Nightmare in Badham County is a 1976 American women-in-prison television drama horror thriller film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Chuck Connors, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Reed, Tina Louise, Della Reese, Lana Wood and Ralph Bellamy. Its plot follows two female college students from California who, while traveling cross-country, are remanded to a women's prison farm in a corrupt Southern town. The film was so popular in China that it was released in cinemas and Raffin became the first Western actress to make a promotional tour of the country, after which she became an unofficial ambassador helping China make deals with Hollywood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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