Parker Lewis I saw this awhile ago and if you're expecting Robert Reed to be the fatherly Brady type, then go watch the Brady Bunch. He really relishes his malevolent prison warden role big time where all the prisoners are female. Interestingly, when I revisited this movie in Wikipedia recently, I didn't realize the lead star Deborah Raffin passed away in 2012 at the young age of 59.There's a sense of foreboding in this movie and there are several deaths. I think there should be a remake/reboot. I think Michael Douglas would be amazing in the role of the prison warden, and maybe in an act of innovative casting have say Sharon Stone, Glenn Close, Kathleen Turner, and Demi Moore, play the prisoners.

merklekranz This television exploitation movie is certainly entertaining, but relentlessly downbeat. Exploring, how two college coeds are thrown in a Southern prison farm on trumped up charges, the film has many fine qualities. The acting by a largely recognizable cast is solid and character development is totally acceptable, but there are problems relating to the film's resolution. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no payoff for the audience. "Nightmare in Badham County" is loaded with reprehensible characters, along with two heroines who elicit tremendous sympathy. With that setup, a more upbeat conclusion might have been better. - MERK

triple8 I saw this so long ago I really cannot remember it scene by scene but would like to see it again. The plot has already been gone over but really quickly-this concerns two young girls traveling together unfairly thrown into the local woman's prison and the movie focuses on their plight.This I remember being as a low budget or relatively so type of movie but very well done and well acted. Not your typical "girls in prison" movie(meaning this doesn't play like a porno flcik). This movie actually focuses on these two girls as human beings and how they try to survive the brutality of their experience. It is Extremely well acted and the girls come across as so likable and so truly horrifed by their circumstances that you ache for them.I truly hope this wasn't based on a true story. In any event-the drama is in this movie despite the low budget and that is due primarily to the wonderful acting of all involved-I would recommend this movie quite a bit over the trash that's mostly out there about women in prison. Don't even know if the movie still plays anymore I saw it so long ago.

bfjrnski Contains Spoilers!! Nightmare in Badham County was originally shown as a TV movie.But a later "theatrical" version has turned in video stores.This "theatrical" version has added only a few scenes of fronal nudity and lesbian brutality.But these scenes succeed in making "Nightmare in Badham County" little more than a sleazy,girlie-prison video flick! The TV version (which by now might air on the late-late show) remains a much more tame and more gripping drama.One that leaves the viewer shocked and saddened... The story involves two college girls-Kathy and Diane.Best friends on summer vacation touring through the "deep south".The only problem is that Kathy is white and Diane is black.They happen to encounter car trouble in a small,remote,rural town in which black folks still live in subservience and repression.After telling off the local,bigotted sheriff he arranges their incarceration in a local jailhouse.And after raping the black girl he succeeds in having them sentenced to "30 days" in the local prison farm. This squalid prison farm is run by a wealthy and sleazy warden and the "guards" are actually rifle-toting trustees.The blacks and whites are kept in separate barracks but are treated equally badly!The work is long,hot,and back-breaking.The food is virtually non-existent.Blacks and whites are forbidden to even speak to each other.The trustees are tough andcold.In the complete absence of the nudity and lesbianism of the video version we the TV viewers are able to feel the unbearable heat,hunger,and desperation of Kathy and Diane's plight!Sex is not a way out for them.They're only hope is escape!And escape only results in Kathy's eventual freedom.Diane is killed.And we learn that she is not the only one to die at the hands of Badham County!