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New World try a variation on the women in prison film by having women in prison in Ancient Rome. A bunch of ladies are imprisoned as slaves by Romans (in particular one black and one white); they are bought by a gladiator owner who is having trouble entertaining the jaded crowd with his men gladiators, so he eventually gets the women to fight.
The women in prison influence is notable in a few scenes - the obligatory initiation shower sequence, a fight in the "mess hall", an escape sequence - but it's better as a gladiator movie, with a rousing climatic fight that is the best thing about the film.
The two main gladiators are the regal, former high priestess of something or other Bodicia (Margaret Markov) and Pam Grier, who really looks like she would have made a good gladiator. Markov and Grier work well together and there is a nice scene where Grier is forced to kill a fellow female gladiator or be killed in turn; also good is when Markov and Grier's love interests both get killed on the same day.
Worst scene: the bitch gladiator (a Roman) ends up pack raped. (There's too much rape and sexual assault, as there was in many of these films - something people who seek to rehabilitate 70s cinema seem to forget).
Directed by Steve Carver and producer by Mark Damon, former star of Fall of the House of Usher.
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