2069: A Sex Odyssey (1977) : This German sex comedy has a brief SJ scene at the 64-minute mark, as a hysterical, matronly woman is tied in one by two attendants and carried off. The jacket has large grommets on the back, but it looks like they just slip it on and hold it in place. The film was recentlty released on DVD by Seduction Cinema.

9:04 AM (2007): According to the IMDB, a poster of an SJed woman is seen on a wall during this film.

Adam and Evil (2004) : The very final shot of this slasher flick shows the actress Barbara Kottmeier SJed in a padded cell. The jacket looks like a magician's model (white canvas with brown leather detailing), but has side loops and a crotch strap. Kottmeier is wearing panties, and does some very energetic struggling. The scene is about 45 seconds long. The scene is up on YouTube (thanks to Rodrigo).

Alice (Alicja; 1981): According to this Cold Fusion film review, this Polish free-form adaption of Alice in Wonderland features the lead actress, Sophie Barjac, in a SJ singing "I'm a Psychologist" in a room full of mental patients. I've been told that the SJ is really nothing more than a long-sleeved shirt tied in the back, though.

Alien Resurrection (1997) : At about 7-1/2 minutes into the film, Sigourney Weaver is seen in an unusual SJ: it's a beige vest (with laces about halfway down the front) with three straps on each side to hold her arms. She was also wearing metal legirons. There are two brief views of this scene, totaling about 15 seconds. She's also seen in a pair of solid metal handcuffs before and after this scene. I wonder if the dark brown vest she's wearing for the rest of the film is a modified version of this SJ (there are no arm restraints on it, though). Intriguingly enough, I flipped through a "making-of" book, which had the storyboards running along the top, and film frames corresponding to the boards running below. On the original storyboard for this scene, Ripley had her arms encased in a metal contraption in front of her. Too expensive, perhaps? Thank goodness for small favors. :-)

Ambushers, The (1968) : About 8 minutes into this entry of the Matt Helm (Dean Martin) spy parodies, Janice Rule appears in a rather "mod"-looking SJ (white with two shiny red straps attached in front and red "racing stripes" down the sleeves; no crotch strap); a few minutes later, she appears with the sleeves pulled up. Ho-hum.

Amityville: A New Generation (1993) : Julia Nickson-Soul, an Asian-American actress, appears briefly (two shots, about 5 seconds total) in an SJ in a flashback. This occurs near the climax of the film, around the 1 hour and 20 minute mark.

Anal Institution (1996) : The head doctors of a mental institution decide to treat their patients with anal sex. A review of this porn video mentions that at least one actress is SJed. I've found at least two sequels to this tape, but I haven't seen any of these.

Angel Dust (1996) : Every Monday at exactly 6:00 PM, a serial killer murders a young woman at a subway terminal via poisonous injection. A female criminal psychologist is assigned to the case, but is disturbed when all clues seem to lead back to her former boyfriend, who conducts deprogramming sessions for cult members. About halfway into this film, the boyfriend examines videotape of one of his female patients. She is seen in an SJ and strapped to some sort of chair. In the first shot, she is gagged with a sort of "horse bit" (hard rod covered with foam), and she wears a wicked-looking leather(?) face mask in the next shot. Unfortunately, these scenes are shot in grainy black-and-white video (like a surveillance camera), most of the footage is in long shots, and the close-ups crop most of the SJ offscreen. The film itself is very good and suspenseful, owing its basic plotline and characterizations to The Silence of the Lambs, but those looking solely for good SJ stuff will be disappointed.

Ass Fucked #2 : One scene in this porno features Jill Kelly in a jacket, begging two doctors to have sex with her. Unfortunately, the jacket comes off shortly afterwards.

Asylum (2006) : Not to be confused with about 400 other films with the same title, this film concerns female vampire mental patients (THAT old story again). The trailer shows a yellow-collared Posey SJ.

Asylum of the Damned (aka Hellborn, 2004) : Nurse Wells (Deborah Flora) is seen sitting on the floor of a room in a Posey straitjacket for a few seconds, in a long shot and a close-up. The scene occurs about 1:08 into the film (Chapter 17 on the DVD).

Avengers, The (1998) : The big-budget version of the classic cult series from Britain has one SJ scene with Uma Thurman as Ms. Peel, about an hour into the film. The jacket used is very nice (canvas-and-brown-leather with neck, wrist, and 2 crotch straps), but it's not tied very tightly, and the scene itself is only about 30 seconds long. The scene is available on YouTube.

Beverly Hillbillies, The (1993) : In this offshoot of the beloved 60s sitcom, Granny (Cloris Leachman) is hustled off to a nefarious "retirement home" by the bad guys (Lea Thompson and Rob Schneider). She gets shock treatment (off-screen) and is seen afterwards in a small Posey SJ and a frizzed-out hairdo, before Miss Hatheway (Lily Tomlin) sneaks in to save her.

Beyond the Door (1974) : Italian Exorcist ripoff; Juliette Mills (sister of Hayley Mills) has several scenes in an SJ, including one where she rips herself free. The film is availble from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The scene is up on YouTube (thanks to Rodrigo).

Bloody Mary (2006) : This film has a scene where the title character is lying in a room with a Posey SJ for a few seconds with no struggling. It's on Chapter 9 of the DVD. There's also a scene with a struggling woman put into 4-point restraints. (thanks to Joe)

Boo!(2005) : New actress Trish Coren plays "a young woman with a spiritual and mental connection to the angry spirits haunting her friends" in the abandoned hospital where the film takes place. She confirms in this interview that she wears a straitjacket in the film. You can check out this story at Cinescape for pics of Cohen and her co-stars. There are stills (including a pic of Cohen in a yellow-collared SJ over a pajama top) posted at the horror site Arrow in the Head.

Buried Alive (aka Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive) (1989): At a home for troubled girls, whose premises once housed an insane asylum, a sinister figure is clutching young women and walling them up in the abandoned cells. What makes this strange film nice is that the girls are tied in lace-up canvas SJs before they're entombed. There is one brief scene at the opening of the film, a very good longer scene about 45 minutes in (lots of struggling), and another short scene at the 65-minute mark (Ginger Lynn Allen is chest-deep in a hole that's about to be filled with concrete, so you don't see the SJ for most of the scene). BTW, don't confuse this with the made-for-USA-Network film with Jennifer Jason Leigh that came out about the same time. There's a small cap of one of the SJed victims on this Polish horror film site.

Buster's Bedroom (1990) : "art film" by Rebecca Horn about a young woman searching for the spirit of Buster Keaton. Her travels lead her to a convalescent home for old Hollywood actors; her presence is viewed with such alarm that a doctor (Donald Sutherland) ties her in an SJ (white canvas with leather straps, crotch strap, and long cloth ties at the ends of the sleeves). A few minutes later, she manages to "twirl" herself free. The scenes occur about 52 minutes into the video, and have a lot of generous struggling and some juicy dialog ("Treat it like....a second skin!"). The video is available on YouTube.

Canary Season, The (1993) : This Bulgarian film centers on a woman and her grown son, as she recounts the horrors of life under communism. Late in the film, she witnesses a politcal murder and is shunted into a psychiatric hospital. She is wrapped in a smock-style SJ, strapped to a chair and has her head shaved. The scene occurs about 1:45 into the film, and lasts about a minute. There's also a 4-point restraint scene a few minutes later. The scene is available on YouTube.

Cholo, El (2001) : Here's the description of this Spanish-language movie from Brian R's Scene Database: "Sexy vamp drugs the hero's girlfriend. She wakes up in a room with other girls and against their warnings starts banging on the door for help. The evil woman comes in with an enforcer guy and she's sedated,straitjacketed and bound and gagged OTM with medical gauze.The hero and co. find where she's being held and OTM gag a middle-aged woman with white cloth and tie her up. They find the bad girl and do the same to her after hand-gagging her.As the heroine is freed,the gag comes off and we see cloth packing was stuffed in her mouth." The actress in question is Claudia Bernal, a raven-tressed beauty. The initial scene of bondage occurs 52:30 and lasts about a minute. At 1:01:45, the hero finds and ungags Bernal, but the enforcer interrupts them. As they fight, there are a few shots of the other girls undoing Bernal's bonds. This film is available on VHS from Condor Pictures. You can see the scene on YouTube, and there's a lot of caps at Knotbuster's.

Cobweb, The (1955) : This Vincent Micelli-directed melodrama is set in a mental hospital. At least one man is SJed, but I don't know about any women.

College (1984) : This Italian film was listed at Brian R's Scene Database: "Set in a sorority house somewhere it Italy. After an attempt to escape, the daughter of a movie tycoon (Federica Moro, Miss Italy 1982) is put into a strait-jacket as has her feet tied with rope, lying on a bed, dressed only in her panties." This must have appeared as an episode in the 1984 miniseries based on the movie, as I bought the Domovideo PAL pre-record, and it had no female bondage at all (a male interloper is B&G, though).

UPDATE! Committed (1983) : This independent movie about Frances Farmer contains three scenes of interest: 1) The very first shot in the film is of two attendants dragging Farmer (Sheila McLaughlin, also the film's co-producer and co-director) down a dark hall to an examination room, where they remove the SJ and hold Farmer down for an injection; 2) about 9 minutes into the film, there are two short shots of the SJed Farmer lying on a cot in a cell; in the latter shot, there is some decent struggling; 3) an hour into the film, a wildly struggling Farmer is SJed at her mother's house and carried off. The last scene is a minute long, and has decent closeups of McLaughlin (not as glamorous as Jessica Lange, but quite attractive in her own right) and the back of the jacket, which looks like a Humane Restraints model. The film is available on tape from First Run Features.
The spanking-oriented blog Tan Her Hide has a lengthy entry about the film with some video captures.
N. B. : There is also a 1988 film with this name, about a psychologist (Jennifer O'Neill) tricked into committing herself into a private institution. This film does NOT have any SJs (there is a teasing glance at a strange-looking restraint on a bed in a dank chamber O'Neill is exploring,but nothing comes of it).

Confessions of a Psycho Cat (1968) : “A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.” (Courtesy of the IMDB.) There is a very short SJ scene at the end. It's available on DVD from Something Weird Video.

Coroner, The (1999) : The heroine of this film (Jene Longenecker), who is kidnapped by the titular character, is seen SJed (yellow collared Posey) in a padded cell at the beginning and end of this film, grimacing through flashbacks and flashforwards of the film. It's available on both VHS and DVD from New Concorde Home Video.

Curtains (1983) : Slasher flick about an actress (Samantha Eggar) who commits herself to an asylum for research; her hubbie (John Vernon) makes sure she can't get out. Eggar is tied in an SJ (again, one of the wimpy two-strap models) by three attendants (with vigorous struggling), and is seen in it for about two minutes. Not bad. This was released on Vestron Video back in the '80s, but is long OOP. The entire film is available on YouTube, but the scene we want is in Part 1.

Daughter of Darkness (1994) A woman (Mia Sara) is haunted by nightmares and discovers that she is descended from the undead. An unidentified blonde (not the lead) is seen in an SJ with her arms tied over her head. The tape was released by Lions Gate Home Entertainment.

Dead Leaves (2004) : This anime feature deals with two criminals (one female) who are sent to a prison on a distant moon where the inmates are kept in full-length SJs in padded cells all the time, only being let out to eat and work. The art design is jagged and minimalist. ARNie! was kind enough to send some vidcaps:


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Dead Pit, The (1989) : A Jane Doe (Cheryl Lawson) ends up in an asylum where nefarious deeds are occurring. During a nightmare, Jane dreams she is SJed in a padded cell, strugglig and screaming. This occurs about 44 minutes into the film, and is rather brief. The tape was released by Imperial Entertainment.

Die Before I Wake: This undistributed film was produced by Bison Digital Video. The whole film was posted in about 16 parts on Google Video; the parts we're concerned with are Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.

Disturbed, The (200?): The web site for this Australian zombie movie shows an SJed woman as its main image. The trailer is supposed to have some SJ shots as well.

Dr. Caligari (1990) : The granddaughter of the original Dr. Caligari continues his weird works in Caligari's Insane Asylum (check out the initials for a cheap laugh). This is one STEE-RANGE flick, filled with nudity, electric chairs, pus-oozing boils, inexplicable eyeballs, and not a normal human being in sight. Well, here's the tally: 1) A not-unattractive-but-goofy-acting Oriental woman (Magie Song) is SJed (straps with metal grommets in front) in a dialogue scene with two attendants; little struggling (34 minutes into the film); 2) a painting of a woman kneeling in an SJ, done in the style of Margaret Keane's "big eye" paintings, is shown (46 minutes); 3) three hot-pink padded SJs are shown on a clothesline, but aren't used, dammit! (48 minutes). The OOP tape was released by Starmaker/Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde (2003) : This softcore horror film focuses on a therapist (Julian Wells) who devises a chemical formula to enhance a woman's sexual pleasure. She tries it out on a patient (Andrea Lewis), who becomes so crazed that she has to be restrained. Lewis is seen in a magician's SJ in Chapters 5 and 6 on the DVD (13:40 - 14:15), with several brief flashbacks later (17:45 to 20:00). The film ends with the good doctor herself SJed (Chapter 16; 1:26:00). The accompanying documentary contains more indulgent looks (Chapter 6; Lewis at 39:00 - 40:15, and Wells at 44:10 - 46:45). The DVD is released by Seduction Cinema.

Down the Ancient Stairs (Per le anticle scale, 1975) : This Italian film is set in a mental hospital. About 17 minutes into the film, there is a short scene of a woman SJed, with the sleeves tied behind the chair she's sitting in. The film is available from European Trash Cinema.

Dunwich Horror, The (1970) : This horror film shows a rather haggard middle-aged woman struggling in a generic SJ for a few seconds, around the 66-minute mark. The film is available on MGM Home Entertainment DVD.

Erotic Witch Project Part II, The (2000) : Darian Crane is seen SJed in this softcore ripoff of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, set in a mental hospital. There's a pic available at the Seduction Cinema website.

Escape Routine : This video piece by Simon Patterson is a parody of the familiar air-safety recitation given to airline passengers, except that the attendants (2 male and 2 female) are performing escape artistry. Reportedly an SJ and a mailbag are used.

NEW! Escapees, The (aka Les Paumees Du Petit Matin; 1981) : This film from French erotic horror specialist Jean Rollin focuses on the adventures of two young women who escape from a remote asylum. At the 5-minute mark, we see new arrival Michelle (or Brigitte, if you beliive the IMDb (Laurence Dubas) being hosed down in the shower room before she's placed in an SJ and shoved into a cell. She manages to get the attention of the formerly catatonic Marie (Christiane Coppe), who enters the cell and frees her. The whole scene lasts about 3 minutes. The DVD cover shows Dubas in her SJ.

Exorcist, The (1973) : There's a brief SJ shot in this classic horror film. When Father Karras (Jason Miller) visits his mother in the psych ward, you can see a motionless, SJed woman in the background.

Exposed : This adult film reportedly has a scene where star Kylie Ireland escapes from an SJ; check the review at Jaded Video.

Fall (1997) : In this trite Gen-X film about unshaven cabbies and the gorgeous supermodels who love them, the couple meet a friend at a performance art piece, where a middle-aged woman bellows and poses in a Posey SJ (with untied arms) for about 15 seconds. You aren't missing much, folks.

UPDATE! Fear Runs Silent (1999) : In this odd, disorienting feature, a group of students take a field trip to Big Bear, California, where they are attacked by a group of animal men. Kerry (Suzanne Davis, an attractive young blond who kind of reminds me of Alison Sweeney from Days of our Lives) is the sole survivor, and relates the story (interspersed with flashbacks to her troubled childhood) to a therapist. She's seen in a small Posey in a padded cell several times in the film, at the 50, 60, 68, and 80 minute marks. Considering how this film was edited, there are probaly a few brief shots I missed. There is a generous amount of struggling and running about on Davis' part. The scenes are up on YouTube, and there's a vidcap at MetroFlog.

Fedora (1978) (Martha Keller)

Femme Nikita, La (1990) : Anne Parillaud portrays the title character, a street urchin sentenced to death after killing a cop during a robbery who is "saved" to become an assassin for the government. During her "execution," she is seen in an SJ in a long shot (about 11 minutes into the film). BTW, the American remake Point of No Return with Bridget Fonda contains no SJ bondage, but her "execution" scene has her being strapped into an intimidating steel chair.

Fifth Floor, The (1980): A young woman (Diane Hull) has her drink "mickeyed" and freaks out; she is summarily committed to the 5th floor of an asylum. The woman is cornered in a parking lot by an ambulance attendant and two policemen and is forced into an SJ. One of the other institutionalized women (Sharon Farrell) is put into an SJ, but we never get a good look at her; later, she and the protaganist are placed in wet packs.

Frances (1982) : The big-budget flick about the strange life of actress Frances Farmer. Two very good SJ shots; one as FF (Jessica Lange) is dragged down the hall by two attendants and locked in a cell; another as she mills about in a room. There are also a few brief shots of other women in SJs in the institution.

From the Cold Lakes of Death (19??) : This French film focuses on a young woman (Renee Soutendijk) from a wealthy family who gives birth to a stillborn baby and is summarily placed in a mental hospital. In one long scene, she is seen in a cell, SJed and strapped to a bed. As a nurse undoes her restraints, we see that the sleeves are wrapped around several times and knotted in the back, and that there are quite a few straps on the SJ. (N. B.: The title listed above is a literal translation of the Dutch video release (Van de koele meren des doods); I've been unable to find the original French or the English title.)

Gang Bang Girl 29 (2001): This porn film appears to have two women kept in SJs in a padded cell (scroll down to the bottom of the Adult DVD Talk review to see the vidcap).

Gate, The (2001) : This porn film takes place within a mental hospital. Alexa, playing a new patient, is seen in an SJ near the start.

Get Crazy (1983): This film concerns the battles between two concert promoters, both trying to disrupt the other's New Years concert. There are a few quick shots of an SJed couple at a concert, and a later shot of the SJed female thrown off a balcony to the crowd below.

Girl, Interrupted (1999) : A novel about a teenage girl's stay at a mental institution provides the basis for this movie. An interview with Angelina Jolie reveals that SJs are used, and a person who viewed a preview showing stated that both Jolie and Winona Ryder were SJed. Unfortunately, these were seemingly removed from the final cut, as the theatrical release only showed one of the supporting characters in a Posey SJ, briefly. If it offers any consolation, Jolie does have a scene in four-point restraints near the film's end. Reviews of the DVD mention a supplement of 5 scenes edited out of the final cut, but I've yet to find a mention of any new SJ scenes.

Girl Show 2 (2002) : According to the review at Adult DVD Talk, this film features Logan LaBrent in an SJ.

Girls in Prison (1994) : This is one of the campy remakes of classic Roger Corman '50s exploitation flicks made for Showtime. About an hour into the movie, a catatonic Ione Skye is seen in a Posey SJ for about 5 seconds.

Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989): According to the original drive-in movie expert Joe Bob Briggs, this low-rent Marilyn Monroe biopic contains SJ scenes with Phyllis Coates as Marilyn's mother.

Hairspray (1988) : This John Waters comedy centers on the battle to become queen of the local teenage dance show, set in the early '60s in Baltimore, when the civil rights struggle was coming to a head (the dance show itself is all white). One of the secondary characters, Penny Pingleton (Leslie Ann Powers), has a black boyfriend, much to the horror of her parents. They track the two to the "wrong side of the town," put Penny in a red-collared Posey (actually, they just slide it up her arms) and drag her into their car. The scene occurs about an hour into the film, and while it's pretty lame, the film is so much fun you should rent it anyway. :-)

Hamlet (1996) : In Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Shakespeare's play, Ophelia (Kate Winslet) is seen in a sort of SJ-nightgown combination. The two scenes, with a total of 5 minutes, occur right after the intermission, on the second tape.

Hell on Heels (2000) : One scene in this big-budget lesbian porn film features Sydnee Steele in a silver straitjacket (thanks to Adult DVD Talk).

Hijacking Agatha (Uprowadzenie Agaty, 1993) : This Polish drama follows a neer-do-well rock musician, fresh out of jail, who winds up in a relationship with Agatha (Karolina Rosinska), the teenage daughter of a prominent Communist offical. (According to her Imdb profile, Rosinska was 19 years old in 1993.) The distressed father decides to have Agatha committed for her own good, and we see two attendants take a SJed Agatha out into an ambulance and drive off. A minute later, they arrive at the hospital and she is briefly interviewed by the psychologist on duty, who tells the father that she would probably commit suicide in the institution, and recommends committing the musician instead. Rosinska wears a lace-up jacket, with the sleeve ties wrapping around her arms and chest a few times; there is almost no struggling. The scene occurs in Chapter 7 of the DVD, 44:25 - 44:45 and 45:45 - 48:15.

How I Got Into College (1989) : A pretty decent and smart comedy about two friends, a young man and woman, trying to get into the college of their dreams. During the girl's (Lara Flynn Boyle) rather disasterous interview, she exposes her chest to the nebbishy admissions director (he has his back turned) and she imagines herself in an SJ for a few seconds before buttoning up and running out.

Human Monster, The (aka Dark Eyes of London) (1939) About 65 minutes into the film, Bela Lugosi puts Greta Gynt into a lace-up SJ, and leaves her in it for the next 8 minutes or so. The late, great Hungarian was so eager to get Gynt under wraps that he neglected to put her arms in the sleeves (instead, he wraps the sleeves behind her and ties them in front), but there's some good struggling and Gynt is quite the fetching blonde. The Edgar Wallace novel this film was based on was filmed twice more, as The Dark Eyes of London (1961; available along with the original from Sinister Cinema; no bondage) and The Gorilla Gang (aka The Ape Creature) (1968; available from Tropic Twilight).

Impatient Maiden, The (1932) : In this comedy directed by James Whale, hospital attendant Andy Devine offers to show Una Merkel his brand-new "patent zipper straitjacket" and she, of course, eagerly follows him into the locked ward to try it on (how come I never have this luck in real life?). Not surprisingly, Devine gets the zipper stuck and has to run out to get a special tool, leaving a squealing Merkel locked up and struggling. Devine returns in good time and gets the jacket off, and all is well. The scene ocurs about 35 minutes into the film. I've got a clip up on YouTube.

Inhumanoids, Roger Corman's The (199?) : An actress wears a "futuristic" SJ in this movie; transparent plastic with her arms drawn up in front of her.

In Search Of Lovecraft (2008) : The trailer for this upcoming film shows a woman in a small Posey SJ.

Iris (1989) : I don't know much about this New Zealand film, except that it's based on the autobiography of the film's director, whose character in the film is SJed in one scene.

Jacob's Ladder (1990) : There is reportedly an SJ scene about 90 minutes into this film, right after Tim Robbins is thrown out of a car. The DVD is from Artisan Entertainment.

Janie (1970) : This softcore sex film (from Roberta Findlay of Snuff infamy), about a twisted teenage girl who kills some of her sex partners, ends with her in an SJ. It's available as "Softcore Double Feature #8" ($24.95 ppd., with the Finlay featurette Take My Head) from Alpha Blue Archives, Inc., Box 16072, Oakland CA 94610; archives@sirius.com).

Keeper, The (1975) : A husband-and-wife detective team is investigating the disappearances of patients at an asylum for the wealthy insane. In one scene, they're rendered unconscious, and when they awaken, the man is tied in a wheelchair and the woman is SJed and lying in bed. This was released a while back by Interglobal Video.

Killer Rats (aka Rats; 2003) : Investigative reporter Samantha (Sara Downing) goes undercover at a recently privatized mental institution, looking for dirt. She discovers that the head psychiatrist had created a breed of superintelligent killer rats (yeah, that old story), which are now killing some of the patients. About 75 minutes in, Downing is wrestled into an SJ and thrown in a padded cell. There's some nice struggling before she's rescued, and a glimpse at her roommate, who was also SJed and placed in an adjacent cell. Be warned, though, that the roommate was trying to chew her own arm off to escape, and succumbs to the killer rats (LOTS of blood). Fox Home Entertainment released the film on tape and disc. Thanks to sjtemp, the scene is up on YouTube.

Killers 2 : The Beast (2002) : The first Killers (1997) dealt with a drug deal gone horribly wrong for everyone, including spoiled rich girl Heather (Kim Little). This sequel takes place in the maximum security mental institution where Heather is now confined, blamed for all the deaths in the first film. The first SJ scene is about 11 minutes in, when we see a violent inmate in a yellow-collared Posey, being taunted by the attendents. Forty minutes in, Heather herself is also SJed in a padded cell, in several scenes totalling 15 minutes. There's also a lot of wheelchair and bed restraints, as well as an electroshock scene. The tape and DVD are available from MTI Home Video.

Lady Sings the Blues (1972) : Diana Ross stars as the famous and doomed jazz singer Billie Holiday. At the beginning of the film, a jailed Holliday is thrown into a padded cell; after screaming, two matrons tie her in an SJ. The scene is about 2 minutes in total. The tape was released by MGM.

Lilith Unleashed (1987; formerly listed as Lilith Vs. The World) : an X-rated film that begins with "the demon Lilith in a straitjacket in a mental asylum." Tish Ambrose portrays the title character; there's more info at the Adult Video News review.

Linguini Incident, The (1991) : Rosanna Arquette is the granddaughter of Harry Houdini's press agent, and is obsessed with the master of escapes. There are two scenes with Arquette in a very nice dark-canvas-and-brown-leather SJ, at about 70 minutes (practising an underwater escape routine) and 90 minutes (the actual performance) into the film. The tape was released by Academy Home Entertainment.

Loca, La (1952) : This black-and-white Mexican film stars Libertad Lamarque as a wealthy philanthropist who is mentally ill, and eventually has to be put away. After her committment, she is seen in a padded cell in a smock-type SJ for a couple of minutes at the 75-minute mark.

Looking For Love (2002) : This porn film might have an SJ scene with Brittney Skye; the Adult DVD Talk review is kind of vague.

Love Child (1982) : Amy Madigan plays a woman convicted of robbery who becomes pregnant while in prison. After she sets her mattress on fire while in solitary, she is SJed and chained to the walls of her cell. The scene occurs about 20 minutes into the film. The film was released on tape by Warner Home Video. Thanks to Renfield, the scene is available on YouTube.

Lovecraft's Pillow (2006) : This short film, inspired by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, appears to have an SJed woman on one scene. You can check out the listing at the Lovecraft Film Festival site. (thanks to Joe)

M - Caught in the Act : According to Adult DVD Talk, porn star Serenity has a scene in an untied SJ.

Ma vie en cinémascope (2004) : This Canadian film covers the life of Quebec singer Alys Robi (Pascale Buissières), who spent three years in an institution after achieving great success. The Hour.ca review mentions SJs, and the Cinebyte page shows the actress strapped to a table. The film is available on DVD under the title Bittersweet Memories, and contains one scene with the actress in a lace-up SJ.

Madness (Private Gold #41) (2000) : According to this Toy Boxxx review, there's an SJ scene in this porn film.

Magdelina, Possessed by the Devil (aka Devil's Female) (1974) : A post at the Dead Donkey forum suggests that the title character ends up in a straitjacket sometime in this horror movie.

Maniacts (2001; and no, that's not a typo :-) : Joe (Jeff Fahey) and Beth (Kellie Waymire) are two serial killers who fall in love in a shady mental hospital. After they "meet cute" (Beth breaks Joe's arm while arm wrestling), they have a soulful conversation while Beth is tied in a Posey SJ, laying on a bed (21:00 - 26:00; Chapter 4 on the MTI Home Video DVD). After Joe escapes from the hospital, a drugged Beth is SJed and dragged to the "Hydro Room." When Beth refuses to rat Joe out, the corrupt doctor turns on a fire hose and blasts her halfway across the room (36:40 - 39:50, Chapter 8 on the DVD).

Midnight Cabaret (1988) : the star of a musical revue about Satan's Wedding (Lisa Hart Carroll, an OK-looking brunette) is horrified by bizarre dreams which foreshadow murders. After she's found at a murder scene with a bloody straight razor in her hand, we see her in a hospital bed in a Posey SJ. There are two very short shots of her, and a third of another woman SJed, about an hour into the film. The film was released on tape by Warner Home Video.

Mike's Murder (1984) : During a visit to an art show, the protagonists of this mystery walk past a TV set showing SJed dancers. The shot is only a few seconds long. The film was released on tape by Warner Home Video.

Moon in Scorpio (1987) : This film deals with the tense reunion of 3 men who served in Vietnam together. Britt Ekland spends about 50 seconds an an SJ at the beginning of the film. The tape is currently available as an Amazon.com exclusive from MGM/UA.

Moon's Our Home, The (1936) : Mid-1930s screwball comedy starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan as star-crossed lovers (AFTER Fonda and Sullavan had divorced!). In the climax, Sullavan's character flees to the airport after mistakenly marrying Fonda. However, Fonda is already there with two attendants, and they tie her in an SJ and cart her off. Fonda rides in the back with her, kissing her against her will, until she gives in. It's not a bad scene, about 50 seconds at the end, and there's some good struggling by Sullavan. The ultra-rare tape was released by Specialty Video. The scene is up on YouTube.

Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983) : There is a still of the female lead in a smock-style SJ at the beginning of this film.

Ms. Fits (2001) : This experimental film contains four stories about oppressed women. According to the offical site, each woman featured in the film is straitjacketed at the end of her story and led away. There's more info at the CCMS site.

Murder-in-Law (1990) : "A young man's mother comes from Louisiana to live with her son in San Francisco. What her son doesn't know is that Mom was confined to a mental hospital in Louisiana, and she murdered an orderly to escape." (from the IMDB) He takes her back to the hospital, and she's seen struggling in a roller-buckle Posey for a few minutes, at the 70-minute mark.

Music Lovers, The (1971) : In one of the final scenes in this, ahem, interesting view of the live of Tchaikovsky, a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum discovers that the homosexual composer didn't really love her after all (I couldn't figure out her relation to him -- it was a Ken Russell film, OK?!?! :-), and runs around screaming until she's SJed and strapped to a bed. The film was released on VHS by MGM/UA; the scene is available on YouTube.

Nana (1998) : In this French comedy, the bad guys hold the title character (Clementine Aurore) captive in a mental hospital, and have her SJed at one point. She's also threatened with ECT (and bit-gagged) before her rescue.

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie (2006) : This is a collection of mediocre TV parodies, featuring several members of the "Jackass" crew. One segment is titled "Girls Gone Bonkers", supposedly advertising videos of naked girls in a mental hospital. One actress is seen in a smock-style SJ with cutouts for her breasts. There are two short segments (at 26:50 and 50:00) and another brief shot in the end credits.

Next Victim (2003) : This omnibus film is set in a mental hospital (when Gunnar Hansen, the actor who portrayed "Leatherface" in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is the head doctor, you know you're in for a bumpy ride), and details the circumstances under which three of its patients were committed. The official web site has a trailer with an SJ shot (I haven't been able to open it), and the Image Gallery has one pic of the female patient in an SJ.

Night of the Hunted (1980) (La Nuit des traquées): This film by the French cult director Jean Rollin features porn star Brigitte Lahaie as an amnesiac being kept in a mysterious facility. Reports indicate that Lahaie is seen in an SJ for a total of 2 or 3 minutes without much struggling, and that the SJ appears to have side loops and wrist straps. The tape and DVD were released by Image Entertainment. A recent 2-disc special edition French release shows Lahaie SJed on the cover.

Nightmare Man (2006) : This low-budget horror film doesn't seem to be available on DVD yet, but the description at the Hollywood Investigator sounds intriguing, and has a pic of actress Tiffany Shepis in a Humane Restraints SJ (near the bottom of the page). Renfield saw the film at the Afterdark Film Festival, and says the scene comes at the end of the film, as Shepis is seen struggling in the SJ in a padded cell and demanding her medicine.

Noroime (Cursed Woman, 2000) : According to Sarudama, this J-Horror film contains some SJ scenes.

Nurse Sherri (1977; aka Black Voodoo, Beyond the Living, and probably a few other titles to boot) : Jill Jacobson spends a little time in an SJ in this schlocky Al Adamson flick. It's a rather lame scene at the end of the film, with a near-catatonic Jacobson sitting on the floor in a non-detailed SJ. It's available as Black Voodoo on the Xenon label, with cover art emphasizing the black nurse in the film (who has an OK topless scene); Jacobson, however, is white. The film was recently released on DVD by Ventura Distribution under the title The Possession of Nurse Sherri.

Nutjob Nurses (2001) : Dru Berrymore (clever . . .) is seen in an SJ in this porn film (thanks to Adult DVD Talk).

One Too Many (1950) : Old "road show" picture warning of the dangers of alcohol. Ruth Warrick (of Citizen Kane and "All My Children" fame!) stars as an alcoholic housewife. After she drives her car off the road (with her too-cute daughter within), she`s taken to the "psycho ward," where she has to be SJed and calmed by two nurses. The scene's only 30-or-so seconds long, but there's some good struggling. It occurs about 67 minutes into the film. It's available from Sinister Cinema.

Oral Addiction (1996) : porn flick with Christy Canyon as a woman "addicted to talking dirty" (excuse me while I roll my eyes). Unfortunately, the SJ used is incredibly fake looking (it fastens up with BUTTONS!!) and for some reason she has her arms going over her shoulders. (I've heard that the Sex Asylum videos don't feature SJs, except on the covers.)

Out Of Control (2002) : This porn film features Jenna Haze as "a world famous model who checks herself into a clinic to help deal with her hyperactive sex drive. This puts her into contact with some serious sexual freaks and gives her plenty of chances to exercise her own perverse demons. Jenna doesn't want to be in the clinic and writhes on her bed constrained by a straight jacket." (from a review on the rec.arts.movies.erotica newsgroup.)

Panico (1966) : In this Mexican horror anthology film. Ana Martin is SJed in the first segment, called "Panico". She is seen at the end of the segment (about 17 minutes into the film), sitting on a floor in a smock-style SJ (with buttons in the front) for about 30 seconds total. There is a page of vidcaps (no bondage) from the film at a strangling fetish site, and the film is available from Santo Street.

Party, The (1968) : An SJed woman is shown for a few seconds at the end of this Peter Sellers comedy. MGM has the film on VHS.

Prisoner Maria : The Movie (1995) : This is a Japanese copy of La Femme Nikita (based on a comic book), in which the title character is kept in prison between missions. She is not seen in bondage, but there is a scene in a mental hospital, where a patient is being brainwashed into prostitution by the head doctor. About 35 minutes into the tape, we see her SJed, tied to a bed with leather straps, and gagged with white tape. The scene lasts about 30 seconds. Media Blasters released the tape and DVD under their Tokyo Shock label.

Private Worlds (1935) : I guess this is sort of a soap-opera style look at an institution; haven't seen it.

Prophet's Game, The (1999) : The final scene of this serial killer flick shows Sondra Locke in a Humane Restraints SJ, absolutely motionless, for about 15 seconds. The tape and DVD are from York Home Video.

Pussy Sweat (2002) : "Chrissy Moran starts things out in a white shower wearing a straight jacket. She struggles against her bonds, occasionally lashing out until she gets an arm free. She rips off the jacket and gives herself the loving touch she was craving." (thanks to Adult DVD Talk). There's a decent-sized scan of the cover (with an SJ shot) at the site, too. The DVD Box site has a really nice vidclip, showing Moran in a Posey SJ.

Raven Hawk (1995) : bodybuilder Rachel McLish stars as a Native American woman framed for the murder of her parents. She spent 12 years in a "maximum security asylum" before escaping and hunting down those responsible. Unfortunately, the only SJ scene occurs in an amber-colored flashback, as the actress playing the young Rachel (Karina Yharra) sits catatonically in a wheelchair. This is at the 39-minute mark of the film (or about 45-1/2 minutes into the Columbia/TriStar tape itself).

Redneck Zombies (1987) : This goofy shot-on-video horror flick shows in explicit detail why it's a bad idea to build a moonshine still with a radioactive waste drum. The film is bookended with scenes of the heroine (Lisa M. DeHaven) in a padded cell with an SJ (looks like a sweatshirt with a couple of straps across the arms). The scenes are about 1 minute in total. Lots of fun if you're in a "bad film" mood.

Reincarnation (aka Rinne; 2006) : This Japanese ghost film was part of the recent After Dark Horrorfest series. At the end of the film, the heroine is seen in a room SJed with her ankles strapped together, for about two minutes. You can find the scene on YouTube.

Renglones Torcidos de Dios, Los (1981) : In this Mexican film, singer Lucia Mendez plays a detective who goes undercover at a mental hospital. At the 46-miniute mark, she's seen lying on a bed in an SJ that goes down to her knees for a minute, before a kindly nurse removes it. At the sixty-nine minute mark, after an abortive escape attempt, she's seen in the "violent ward" with a nurse removing the jacket again. In the background, two other nurses are securing another patient in the same type of jacket. The (Spanish language, no subtitles) tape is available from Compañia Oxxo.

NEW! Return of the Whistler, The (1948) : "On the eve of his marriage, a young man's fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiance's dead ex-husband and his wealthy, corrupt family." (plot summary from IMDb) Lenore Aubert, the fiance in question, is briefly seen in an SJ in bed before she is rescued. The clip is available on YouTube, and a looby card showing the scene was recently sold on eBay.

Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) : This direct-to-disc sequel shows heroine Ariel (Amanda Righetti) tied in an SJ after an encounter with a ghost. There is brief struggling before she's untied by another person. The scene lasts about a minute and is on Chapter 9 of the DVD, about 34:00 in the film. Part of the scene is shown in this clip. You can also find the full trailer at YouTube. Squizfr has uploaded the entire scene at RapidShare.

Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) : "At Rock 'n' Roll High School, the students have the lowest academic scores in southern California, none of the school's athletic teams have won a game in years, and three principals have been hurredly admitted to the funny farm." New principal Mary Woronov is seen in her official Vince Lombardi High School SJ in the final scene of the movie. The tape and DVD were released by New Concorde Home Video.

Salon Kitty (1976) : One scene in this Nazi-exploitation film, set in a brothel, shows one of the prostitutes SJed and wheeled out on a stretcher, about an hour and 15 minutes into the film. She appears to be naked from the waist down, but most of the scene is in long shots, so it's hard to tell. The film is available on DVD from Blue Underground.

Scanner Cop (1994) : The titular character looks inside the mind of the villainness, finding himself in a hellish insane asylum. An orderly drags an SJed woman out of a padded cell, where two other inmates are similarly restrained. There's also a scene about 12 minutes into the film, where the cop (as a child) is being examined in a private hospital, and he sees a hallway full of screaming patients; two women are wearing Posey SJs (one of which appears to have the crotch strap tucked around the sleeves, giving the impression of two front arm loops). The tape was released by Republic Video. The scenes are available on YouTube.

Scorpion: Double Venom 2 (1998) : This modern continuation of the Japanese "Female Convict Scorpion" movies of the 70s reportedly contains several SJ scenes. A post on Brian R's page confirms that a wrongly convicted woman is seen in her cell in a Posey SJ. It's available on a double feature DVD with the first Double Venom film.

Seven Hours to Judgement (1988) : Due to a techicality, a judge (Beau Bridges) has to set free the murderers of a man's wife. The widower kidnaps the judge's wife (Julianne Philips) and forces him to find the evidence to convict the murderers. Phillips is SJed, gagged, and has her ankles tied for the last 15 minutes of the film. The film is back in print on an MGM DVD.

Shadow Puppets (2007) : This film features 8 characters imprisoned in a mental hospital due to their involvement in a disasterous experiment. In Chapter 10 of the DVD (45:25 into the film), Melissa (Jennie Ford) is seen SJed and chained to the floor of a padded cell, wearing a Hannibal Lector-style leather mask. The scene lasts about a minute, as Kate (Jolene Blalock) removes her restraints. Heath pointed me towards a review at BViews with a nice vidcap.

Shadow : Dead Riot (2005) : It's amazing no one's made a film about zombies rampaging through a women's prison before, huh? The trailer on the offical web site contains an SJ shot. There is a VERY brief SJ shot about one hour into the film.

She Shoulda Said No (aka Wild Weed, 1949) : A chorus girl (Lila Leeds) throws her life away when she starts smoking that weed with roots in hell, marijuana!!! Interestingly enough, Leeds made this film as part of repaying her debt to society after she was arrested for marijuana possession (in the same infamous bust that nabbed Robert Mitchum). After she winds up in jail, Leeds is taken for a short tour of the local mental institution, where she sees a wild-eyed woman wailing in an SJ for about 15 seconds. The scene appears abotu 48 minutes into the film. The film was uploaded on YouTube, and the scene is in Part 6.

Shock Treatment (1981) : In this obscure sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brad and Janet participate on a game show that quickly turns ugly. Part of the film is apparently set in an asylum. Fox released the film on tape.

Shorts Drawer, The (2005) : This collection of animated shorts contains "Committed" by Alan Hawkins, "the short story of love between a traight-jacketed woman kiss-a-holic, and a rather bemused young man who has to find a way to be with her forever." You can check out the caps at the 3DTotal site.

Slammer Girls (1987) : Piss-poor women-in-chains "parody" with a OK SJ shot (Devon Jenkin, a cute blonde). The tape was released by Vestron Video. The scene is available on YouTube.

Snake Pit, The (1948) : A troubled young wife (Olivia DeHavilland) is committed by her concerned husband. One shot of DeHavilland being bound into an SJ by 3 nurses, and another shot of her in the SJ standing in solitary confinement. Not bad. The film is available on tape and DVD from Fox Home Enertainment. I was told there's another version of this, starring Jane Wyman, but I can't find anything like this listed in her IMDB profile.

Straight Jacket (aka Dark Sanity) (1980) : low-budget flick about a woman who psychically witnesses a murder, and gets into deep trouble over the revelation. There are bookend scenes with the actress in a SJ; the opening scene also has her tied to a hospital bed with fluffy ankle restraints. The American video is long OOP, but it seems to be available in England.

Strait-Jacket (1964) : classic trash from William Castle, starring Joan Crawford as a woman who kills her husband and his lover with an ax and is sent to an asylum for 20 years. There is a scene where Crawford is in an SJ (buckles in the front) and freaking out as she has a flashback to the murders. It's available on tape and DVD from Columbia TriStar Entertainment, and you can find the scene on YouTube.

Strait-Jacket (1992) : This cheapie centers around a mental patient who psychokinetically controls a straitjacket, using it to murder people. (Yeah, THAT old story again). Oddly enough, there are no SJ shots in the film, but I decided to include it for fun.

Straitjacket Lottery, The (2004) : In this short film, a man loses a busload of mental patients and is at his wits' end trying to find them. You can check out the official web site for a trailer and pics.

Sukeban Deka:CodeName=AsamiyaSaki (Yo-YoGirlCop) (2007) : This Japanese adaptation of a popular manga deaing with schoolgirls wielding deadly yo-yos has aone scene with a girl SJed and masked a la Lector. She eventually tears the jacket off. You can check the trailer on YouTube, or download an AVI file of the scene at MegaUpload. (thanks to Renfield).

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008) : In Tim Burton's adaptation of the classic musical, the young heroine Johanna is thrown into Bedlam to keep her away from her sailor suitor. Todd and the sailor break into Bedlam to rescue her, and she is seen in a canvas SJ with what appears to be a padlock on the back. At least one other woman is seen SJed as well. The scene appears on Chapter 21 of the DVD, about 1:35 into the film, and Johanna's appearance lasts about 30 seconds.

Tank Girl (1995) : Lori Petty is seen in an SJ with a restraining chain attached to the back about 35 minutes into this adaptation of the underground comic book; in the very next scene, she is laced up in a full-body canvas bag (without the SJ). A pic of the former scene was a part of the now-defunct ABOND series. MGM has released the film on DVD. There's a video available at the Rachel Talalay site.

Transylvania Twist (1990) : In this horror spoof, Teri Copley appears in an SJ while filming a rock video. She's seen struggling through a cell door window for a few seconds. (thanks to Joe)

Trap Them and Kill Them (1977; aka EMANUELLE E GLI ULTIMI CANNIBALI and EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS) : This film was one of several "Black Emanuelle" films made in Europe and starring Laura Gemser. Gemser plays an investigative reporter, and is seen at the film's start working undercover as a patient in a mental hospital. A nurse stumbles into the ward, screaming and bleeding, and we discover that another patient took a nasty bite out of her. Two orderlies rush in to SJ her (looks like a Humane Restraint) and strap her to a bed. A few minutes later, Emmanuelle sneaks in and persuades the patient to tell her about, well, the last cannibal tribe. The two scenes are at the beginning of the film (chapter 2 on the Media Blasters DVD), and last about 2 minutes in total. There are a few photos of the SJed girl shown afterwards, in the newspaper office where Emmanuelle works.

Unaware (2004) : This serial killer flick might have an SJ scene in it; one of the plot twist involves an escaped female mental patient. A synopsis with pictures is available at Movies Online

Unholy, The (1987) : A scene where a woman in a padded cell is sedated by two attendants; she is later seen in an SJ lying on the cell floor for a few seconds; this happens about 56 minutes in. The OOP tape was released by Vestron Video.

Unrest (aka Unrestful; 2007) : Joe tells me that an recent FANGORIA article showed an actress in a Posey SJ, but there aren't any pics at the film's official site. However, Rodrigo alerted me to a pic contained in this movie review. You can also check out the official trailer. There are a series of caps available at Kisscut.net.

Viajae De Ana Maria, El (Ana Maria's Journey, currently in post-production): In this ultra-low-budget horror film, Ana Maria witnesses the exorcism of her cousin Rosalinda (Veronica Valencia), who is kept in an unusual straitjacket. You can see pictures at the film's offical site (click on "Gallery") and at the DeviantArt site of the film's costume designer, Karriem Glaster.

Waking Madison (2008?) : This work-in-progress by filmmaker Katherine Brooks deals with a woman suffering from multiple personalities. The official site shows an SJed woman in the site intro, there are some pics at the film's MySpace page, and a fun video featuring an SJed Brooks is on YouTube.

Week and a Half in the Life of a Prostitute, A (1996) : In this porno video, Tricie Devereaux "gives a monologue in what appears to be a straitjacket." Here's a review of the video.

When Nature Calls (1985) : Accoring to Bad Movie Planet, this early comedy from Troma, a parody of '70s "back to nature" films, has an SJ scene. The film's available on Troma DVD.

Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) : This documentary reportedly contains an SJ scene, with both men and woman, but Joe tells me the jacket is obviously fake.

Within The Walls (200?) : I know very little about this film, but the trailer shows an SJed woman.

Women's Prison (1955) : Phyllis Thaxter is put in a nice SJ (canvas with leather straps; reaches down to her hips) and thrown into a padded cell. Here's a still:

Yellow Dust (1936) : In this western, when the hero Bob Culpepper (Richard Dix) is swindled out of a gold mine by Nellie Brian (Leila Hyams), he SJs her (lace-up model) and rides off with her on his horse. He leaves her trussed up while he sets up camp, builds a fire, cooks some food and steals a kiss; then he releases her. (Credit to Brian R's Scene Database) The scene starts about 45 minutes into the film and lasts about 6 minutes.