Very well executed
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... View MoreThe film may be flawed, but its message is not.
... View MoreThis sex/torture B-movie was the original that triggered huge wave of "Nasty Nazi" movies that marked B-production of 70's. That was really nasty decade. Film is complete bullshit, but still has something that makes you watch it till the end (if you have stomach for it).This sex/torture B-movie was the original that triggered huge wave of "Nasty Nazi" movies that marked B-production of 70's. That was really nasty decade. Film is complete bullshit, but still has something that makes you watch it till the end (if you have stomach for it).This sex/torture B-movie was the original that triggered huge wave of "Nasty Nazi" movies that marked B-production of 70's. That was really nasty decade. Film is complete bullshit, but still has something that makes you watch it till the end (if you have stomach for it).
... View MoreThis is really sick , but what's most offencive is the statement at the beginning stating that this film is based on factual events and that the tortures depicted have been done so in the hope that these heinous acts never occur again. Absolute Balderdash! THis is really the lowest form of exploitation imaginable, the type that degrades both men( the presumed audience for this misogynistic crap) and women. It's even served up as Feminist diatribe, as Ilsa tries to prove that women can withstand pain better than men can. What makes this film almost intolerable is it's mean spiritedness. Salo was every bit as mean spirited but it didn't try to pawn itself off as based on fact, even though it's probably closer to realism than this is. Shameful!
... View More"Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS" is an true exploitation classic.**SPOILERS**Running the dreaded Camp 9, SS Officer Ilsa, (Dyanne Thorne) and partner Dr. Binz, (George 'Buck' Flower) operate under the pretenses of using women prisoners for their own experiments. When American prisoner Wolfe, (Gregory Knoph) arrives at the camp, she takes an instant appeal to him as he manages to please her the way the other prisoners have. Taking an interest in prisoners Anna, (Maria Marx) and Kata, (Nicolle Riddell) to determine whether or not women have a higher threshold for pain than men, she begins to torture them constantly while using him for her own sexual gratification. Finally getting fed up with the living conditions, they decide to make a break for escape with the prisoners still being held at the camp in a way to get away from the sadistic owner.The News: This is one of the greatest entries in the exploitation genre. This is mostly due to the film's incredibly ability to really use it's exploitation leanings to provide some genuine and excessive sequences. These are mostly from the gruesome torture scenes, including toes being mangled with pliers, an exceptionally bloody double flogging with the fully naked, blood streaked bodies later hung up, a blood-spewing pressure chamber experiment, skin peeling from immersion in boiling water and a maggot infested wound. We also have a very effective blood pumping cut throat and some of the make-up on the disease ridden women, especially the one whose face has been infected with syphilis and which gets more and more rotten as the film goes on and is suitably revolting. Many of the torture scenes are incredibly brutal and manage to get a little unnerving after a while. There's also the grotesque and sickening sight of a barely living, torture ravaged, cruelly mutilated naked woman lying on a trolley, lying completely out in the open showing off every single wound from the experiments, producing a creepy feel. Away from the gore the film, also delivers a few choice moments of exploitative cruelty including an electrified dildo run through the crotch to generate an electronic stimulation and the sequence where a naked woman with a noose around her neck is supported on a block of ice, on a dinner table, which slowly melts away as the Nazi's dine around her. Female nudity is really rampant, not just in the nude inspections of the prisoners and the sex scenes but also during almost all of the experiment and torture sequences. Sparing the victims nothing, their fully nude bodies are continuously on display and generally as much pubic hair, especially blood-soaked pubic hair, as time allows for is splashed across the screen. Thorne gives her all in her sex scenes with much moaning and bucking, but there's also a couple of non-Thorne sequences, including a brief, ever-essential lesbian tryst, where more breasts are on display. That the film in fact opens to a naked Ilsa riding a male prisoner, then showering down and finally partaking in a spot of bloody castration on her hasty sex slave, only goes to reinforce the fact that there's very little that won't be allowed in here, and the film is all the better for it. The general setting of the film, with the very effective sets and furnishings, as the torture chambers are nicely dank and dungeon-like with strategic portraits of Himmler and Hitler on the walls, the Nazi's dining room is splashed-out in very decadent opulence and the whole thing feels very over-the-top and grand, considering the location, to the very fact that it takes place in a concentration camp where hideous experiments, including deliberate infection by all known diseases, are carried out on the prisoners, scream exploitation-made material here. Perhaps the best element here is that the lead, Dyanne Thorne, here looks absolutely perfect for the kind of film. Statuesque, sexy and oh-so-perfectly form, she dominates the movie and literally makes it a far more satisfying experience than it would otherwise have been and is able to ridicule the men and make the women cower. Willing to disrobe whenever the film needs it, she makes her a sexually strong, and yet also sexually complex, character. Ilsa screws the prisoners in the hope of gratification, but punishes them for screwing her as they are inferior to her. Once they have lain with her they must be silenced and punished for doing so. And yet, despite the sadism she shows to her victims, is also very much a subordinate and a masochist when it comes to her own sexual satisfaction. Thorne does bring an extra level to her character's make-up than is the norm in such films. This one also manages some mostly successful action scenes with a few explosions and even an armored car making an appearance during the fun finale, resulting in some really great action scenes. There's just a minor, minor flaw to this. The fun finale has a really big flaw to get over. There's some very clumsy slow motion and the odd very strange gunshot sound, stand out as poor in the sequence. Mainly since it's done during the gunfight is where it really stands out, but it's still a really annoying problem to it. Other than this little flaw, there wasn't a whole lot to dislike to this.The Final Verdict: Without much to stand in the way of pure trash glory, this one here is one of the best and most entertaining examples of the genre. Highly enjoyable for fans of the Naziploitation genre or exploitation films in genre, while those who can't handle it should ignore it altogether.Rated UR/NC-17: Continuous Full Male and Female Nudity, strong sex scenes, Extreme Graphic Violence and Language
... View MoreFirst I read about this movie in an online forum. It sounded quite interesting so I read the article in a well-known encyclopedia and some IMDb comments here too and finally decided to watch it.. people just disagreed in their opinions too much so I wanted to form my own.If you want to watch 'Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS' for the same reason I can only say: you don't have to. It's not as controversial as it seemed to me in the beginning though some scenes are quite disgusting. After all it is an interesting mix of bad, sometimes REALLY bad acting/dialogues, D-cup tits and some gore elements. But I guess one can die and still be happy not having seen this.
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