not to be confuse with the arnold schwarzenegger vehicle with the same name and although release just a few year earlier and clearly feature a couple of common theme and this red heat be actually a woman in prison exploitation movie star linda blair ( the amount of trashy b movie she star in during the eighty be nearly endless ) and sylvia kristel while the one and only original starlet to depict the legendary soft core film character emmanuelle . the main reason why red heat isn not very popular or even commonly know among exploitation fanatic be probably because the script aspire to be overly ambitious and politically engage . there too much drivel about the cold war and political conspiracy and instead of just focus a little more on the obligatory wip ingredient such a cat fight and lesbian perversity and dark affair run from inside the prison wall . don not get me wrong and red heat do feature all these element and only in too small portion . that why i think the comparison between this one and chain heat ( also star linda blair ) be completely unjust . i just watch chained heat a well and this movie be at least ten time more boring and less sleazy . blair star a an america student who come to pay her soldier boyfriend a visit in his stationary base in west germany and only to hear that he wish to delay their marriage in favor of sign up for some extra year of service . angry and confused and out for a nightly walk and christine witness a political kidnapping and get apprehend herself . force into confess spy crime she do not obviously do not commit and christine be take to an old fashion and seclude prison institution where contact with the civilized western world be simply a distant dream . sylvia kristel wear a hideous red wig star a the bitchy inmate who actually more in control of the prison than the head warden . meanwhile and christine fiancée slowly attempt to set up a rescue mission with the help of his army buddy and some political volunteer . in all fairness and the film contain a handful of powerful sequence ( like and for example and christine exhaust interrogation ) as well a neatly atmospheric set piece and steady direction by robert collector . heck and come to think of it and red heat isn not even such a bad film . it just too slow and talkative and wannabe informative and that simply isn not what the target audience anticipate to see . have no fear and though and a say there plenty of other 80 trash feature linda blair out there .