This week on the B movie docket is Sugar Boxx.

B movies are the glue stuck in between all the other genres, oftentimes refusing to conform to any particular genre presets. Some but not all of the hallmarks of a B movie include scripts that read like they were written by a room full of eighth-graders, poor visual effects, cringe-inducing dialogue, low budget production design, and zany plot contrivances. You’re aware of the hallmarks, right? B-movies often reek of amateur flair. Thought you were about to watch a great white shark hunted in dramatic fashion like only Steven Spielberg can deliver? Nope, this is Sharknado.

Why do we love B movies? I think B movies are comforting. You know what you’re about to watch is bad. If you’re fortunate it may be so bad that it’s good. You’ll often scratch your head trying to work out the plot. Out of the many good films you’ve seen, I bet you can talk with more vigor about the worst ones you’ve seen. They’re unforgettable. There’s something comforting about that I think. Besides they’ve been around just as long as the movie industry.

Believe it or not, chances are there’s a B movie for you. So I compiled a list of 50 B movies you must see before you die. No decade is off-limits. No rating is too taboo. For the next 49 weeks, I will introduce and recommend a B movie for your viewing pleasure. Yes, these are exciting times indeed my fanatical friends.

WEEK 18 – Sugar Boxx

Ultra-Low Budget

This week’s film is a throwback to the prison female exploitation genre. Sugar Boxx is low budget. Prison guards sport shoddy uniforms. I don’t think I ever saw a single jail cell. But you must give credit to the director for contriving this low budget plot. Be warned Sugar Boxx features many topless scenes. Whether someone is being stripped and hosed or fighting on the beach. There is always an excuse for a topless scene in Sugar Boxx. The plot demands it.

Locked Up

Here’s the synopsis for Sugar Boxx. Reporter Valerie March goes undercover inside Sugar State Woman’s Prison to expose a prostitution ring run by the warden. But all hell breaks loose when her fellow inmates decide to take bloody, unforgettable revenge on their captors.

So like that, Sugar Box’s main character goes undercover into a world that would make Orange Is The New Black blush. Valerie goes undercover into prison as Angel. To do so she gets herself arrested by the backwater Sheriff.

Valerie believes the warden is using the prison like her very own brothel. There is some business about a chicken man that sells chicken to the prison. He and the warden are in bed on a kickback scheme. So, the chicken man overcharges the warden and half delivers on chickens to the inmates and they split the cash.  And they abuse the inmates on weekends. That’s the plot. And Valerie is one reporters willing to let a warden pimp her to get to the bottom of it.

Watch It

If you are a fan of trashy B movies, then check it out. There was stuff happening on screen that made me want to cover my eyes. And not because there was a lot of blood or guts on screen. Valerie will use her talents. Prison be dammed. No depraved act will get in her way. I do not want to spoil this one for you. But, if you find yourself in the mood of wanting to find out why a journalist would need to go undercover into a women’s prison, or what goes on inside a B movie women’s prison, then see Sugar Boxx.

Just think of it like that time during Batman The Animated Series when Bruce Wayne went undercover into prison and was placed in a sweatbox. But instead of Bruce Wayne, we get hotshot journalist Valerie March. And all of the inmates are women. And she like Bruce Wayne ends up in the sweatbox. There you have it.

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