{"id":84382,"date":"2022-05-27T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T05:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=84382"},"modified":"2022-05-27T22:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T05:27:23","slug":"hot-box-the-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=84382","title":{"rendered":"Hot Box, The (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Teach us public health, so we can teach the villages we liberate!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Poster-175x270.png 175w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Poster.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nFour beautiful American nurses (Margaret Markov, Andrea Cagan, Ricky Richardson and Laurie Rose) working in a Latin American hospital are kidnapped by the leader (Carmen Argenziano) of a revolutionary group and forced to help them as medics.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Demme Films<\/li>\n<li>Prisoners<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis jungle exploitation flick was made explicitly to show off girls, guns, sex, and violence &#8212; and that&#8217;s exactly what it provides in spades: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"935\" height=\"705\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde.png 935w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Blonde-358x270.png 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"709\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2.png 933w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Girl-Gun2-355x270.png 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"935\" height=\"703\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still.png 935w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Still-359x270.png 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s production history says most of what one needs to know about how it emerged, and why; as noted on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hot_Box\">Wikipedia<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The film came about because Roger Corman had a production deal in the Philippines with a young producer there, Cirio Santiago. Corman wanted to give Santiago a story outline and [director Joe] Viola did up a treatment in an afternoon, which became the film. Jonathan Demme shot some second unit footage, which impressed Roger Corman enough to support Demme&#8217;s debut as director, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=46573\"><em>Caged Heat<\/em> (1974)<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you go. The dialogue and delivery are at least occasionally laughably bad, for those who enjoy that sort of thing: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you know what I hope? I hope someday you&#8217;re on a date, and then some maniacs come along and shoot your date, and drag you into the jungle, and then attack you, and then not even tell you why!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effective use of location shooting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"927\" height=\"697\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location.png 927w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hot-Box-Location-359x270.png 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNope, unless this genre is your cup of tea. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068717\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/the-hot-box\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teach us public health, so we can teach the villages we liberate!&#8221; Synopsis: Four beautiful American nurses (Margaret Markov, Andrea Cagan, Ricky Richardson and Laurie Rose) working in a Latin American hospital are kidnapped by the leader (Carmen Argenziano) of a revolutionary group and forced to help them as medics. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Jonathan Demme Films Prisoners Revolutionaries Review: This jungle exploitation flick was made explicitly to show off girls, guns, sex, and violence &#8212; and that&#8217;s exactly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=84382\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84393,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84382\/revisions\/84393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}