Lust for Freedom is a 1987 "women in prison" film directed, produced and co-written by Eric Louzil, and starring Melanie Coll. The film was originally shot at a cost of $50,000 in 1985, under the title of Georgia County Lock-up. In 1986, Troma Team provided $125,000 to alter the film for a theatrical release. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987, before premiering theatrically the following year.

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974. The company produces low-budget independent films, or "B movies", primarily of the horror comedy genre, all geared exclusively to mature audiences. Many of them play on 1950s horror with elements of farce, parody, gore, and splatter.