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Summary: I wish I hadn't bought this...
Review: ... I wish I'd just rented it instead. It started out kind of erotic, but got gruesome toward the end --- and I mean REALLY GRUESOME!!! I like women-in-prison flicks, but only for the eroticism. This one wasn't really erotic. It was just bad.
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Summary: Franco is worst than ever!
Review: Boring, inexistant effects... Go on with Ilsa She wolf of the ss instead of that mess. At this time, all the Jesus Franco I've seen, are extremly boring with bad plot and nothing to remember. He is known only to be an 1960's instigator of the pseudo erotic debut but he never inventing a thing. C'est un pas bon!
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Summary: Not erotic or entertaining
Review: For fans of true '70's Euro-erotic classics such as The Story of O and Emmanuelle, this film does not deliver any quality erotic scenes. First, the women in the film are mostly unatractive and frumpy looking. The violent S&M scenes are less creative than some Showtime films these days. The lack of "eroticism" is evident from the first five minutes and remains so, throughout the film. It is a shame a poorly produced sexplotation film, such as this one made it onto DVD format, while a first class film such as "The Story of O" has not!
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Summary: Only for the sick..
Review: Ho boy, what to say about this? I admit to viewing this and the original Ilse movie out of curiosity...well, my curiosity has been satisfied. Of the two movies, this one is more everything. It's sexier, it has much more girl/girl doings, and it has longer sickening torture scenes in it. And the gross out ending should satisfy all who enjoy such things. The scary part is the fact that this is clearly meant to be entertainment, and that there are people who will be entertained by it. I would dearly like to give this a one star rating...goodness knows I'm not likely to be recommending it to anyone. I even hesitate to let anyone know I've seen it. However, I am not one to pass moral judgments. Privately, I feel this movie should never have been made, but I don't have the right to decide what other people are able to see. So, I will allow it three stars, but with the warning to all that this is absolutely a gross out cult film.
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Summary: WELL DONE YUCK
Review: Ho boy, what to say about this? I admit to viewing this and the original Ilse movie out of curiosity...well, my curiosity has been satisfied. Of the two movies, this one is more everything. It's sexier, it has much more girl/girl doings, and it has longer sickening torture scenes in it. And the gross out ending should satisfy all who enjoy such things. The scary part is the fact that this is clearly meant to be entertainment, and that there are people who will be entertained by it. I would dearly like to give this a one star rating...goodness knows I'm not likely to be recommending it to anyone. I even hesitate to let anyone know I've seen it. However, I am not one to pass moral judgments. Privately, I feel this movie should never have been made, but I don't have the right to decide what other people are able to see. So, I will allow it three stars, but with the warning to all that this is absolutely a gross out cult film.
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Summary: If this movie doesn't disturb you, you're already dead!
Review: I have seen all of the Ilsa movies several times (yes, I admit it) and this one is by far the best. First, a warning: if you are easily shocked, offended, or disturbed, you won't make it through this (or any other Ilsa) movie. I am not exaggerating or saying this lightly. It takes a lot to disturb me, but this movie did the trick. If you love campy women's prison movies, this is also a must-see, though it is much darker and sicker than most of them. Yes, this is an exploitation flick and does not try to hide this fact, but it has a plot, and characters you care about. A woman's sister is being held in a women's prison, so she goes 'undercover' to try to rescue her. The b*tch in charge of the prison is the most twisted, sick, evil, sadistic warden you will ever find in any women's prison movie-- the one and only Ilsa, (or Wanda, or Greta the Mad Butcher, depending on which version you see) the Wicked Warden. Her idea of a nice relaxing evening is using one of the female inmates most sensitive bodyparts for a pincushion, and I am describing the scene tactfully. Others she lobotomizes when they get out of line (or just for fun). The heroine's plan to infiltrate the prison and her sister goes horribly awry when she realizes things in there are much, much worse than she could have dreamed of and there is no escape. The movie's ending is a total show-stopper, when Ilsa comes to one of the most fitting, vividly grisly, ugly endings that you will ever see. Not the most pleasant movie to watch--the first time I saw it, I felt sick for not turning it off and continuing to watch the horrible acts being committed. However, I've seen a lot of really great, bad, and twisted horror/shock/exploitation films, and this one really stands out, with realistic characters, the courage to have a very downbeat ending, and no glamourization of the violence. The images in this movie will stay with you for a long, long time. For some people, that's a warning, for others, a strong recommendation. You think you've seen it all? You haven't, till you've seen this.
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Summary: You get what you expect.
Review: I think if you look up the word ILSA in the dictionary, it will state: "endless number of topless women exposed to some sort of bondage". Plot is corny and i don't think it's really supposed to matter. Maybe the movie itself isn't too bad in the area of soft erotica mixed with some fetish, yet the price is kinda high for the movie of this quality.
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Summary: Steamy shower scenes with interludes of violence
Review: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS could not be taken seriously; the acting was over the top and it was done on a cheap budget. It is fun to watch if you didn't take it seriously. I wasn't really prepared for the very hard edged nature of this DVD. I have seen the other Ilsa videos, but clearly The Wicked Warden is very hard edged and with little humor. There are plenty of shower scenes and fighting in the shower with wrestling on the floor which may amuse viewers. But between that are scenes of torture and brutality which may put off some; I felt it was more cruel than it needed to be. In a short, this DVD was not a lot of fun to watch although the DVD was a spotless print and there was plenty of frontal nudity. Viewer be cautioned.
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Summary: Fake Ilsa Still Delivers
Review: Jess Franco's "fake" third entry in the ILSA series is total trash, but still entertains and delivers so much sleaze that fans shouldn't be disappointed. The new DVD is an excellent presentation of this euro-trash classic. The film is actually not an ILSA movie -- Thorne plays a character called Greta (with red hair), but she's just as vile as Ilsa was so later on, the producers re-released the film with alternate titles including "Ilsa the Wicked Warden" as well as "Wanda the Wicked Warden" (the "Wanda" trailer is on the DVD and in it her character is called Greta!).....confused yet? Anyway, there's nowhere near as much violence or gore (except that pin scene or the finale) as in the previous 2 Ilsa flicks, but "Wicked Warden" has plenty of nudity to compensate! It's pure euro-sleaze all the way Franco-style! I must say it's great Anchor Bay could secure these three flicks for release, but it's a shame they couldn't get the "official" 3rd and final Ilsa movie "Tigress of Siberia" (although I'm sure they tried). I guess my VHS will have to do for now.
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Summary: Fake Ilsa Still Delivers
Review: Jess Franco's "fake" third entry in the ILSA series is total trash, but still entertains and delivers so much sleaze that fans shouldn't be disappointed. The new DVD is an excellent presentation of this euro-trash classic. The film is actually not an ILSA movie -- Thorne plays a character called Greta (with red hair), but she's just as vile as Ilsa was so later on, the producers re-released the film with alternate titles including "Ilsa the Wicked Warden" as well as "Wanda the Wicked Warden" (the "Wanda" trailer is on the DVD and in it her character is called Greta!).....confused yet? Anyway, there's nowhere near as much violence or gore (except that pin scene or the finale) as in the previous 2 Ilsa flicks, but "Wicked Warden" has plenty of nudity to compensate! It's pure euro-sleaze all the way Franco-style! I must say it's great Anchor Bay could secure these three flicks for release, but it's a shame they couldn't get the "official" 3rd and final Ilsa movie "Tigress of Siberia" (although I'm sure they tried). I guess my VHS will have to do for now.
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