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Summary: Sleaze at it's best
Review: Ilsa-She Wolf of The SS is by far one of the greatest sleaze flicks I have ever seen. It is damn near perfect. This movie has everything you would want in a sleaze/horror movie: Graphic Violence (and i do mean graphic), plenty of nudity, un-intentional comedy, and some extras on the dvd to boot. If you are looking for some of the most wicked depictions of torture ever seen on film, well here ya go. This is an extremely entertaining film in many different ways. First of all, this is a well made film. (for the budget it had) And the acting isn't too bad. The violent scenes are outrageous and extremely entertaining. The transfer was even pretty good for such an old and low budget film. The reviewers who gave this movie bad reviews clearly are not fans of this genre of movies. Don't get me wrong...if you are not looking for plenty of violence don't buy this one, but if you are a fan of this genre, then this is a buy or die situation. Trust me, you will not be disappointed. Inlcuding some decent commentary by Dyanne Thorne, trailers and a cast bio, this one is a keeper. Best of the series. (although the other ilsas are pretty good too, but this one's the gem)
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Summary: Boring, not shocking
Review: Poorly made drivel. The only thing that shocked me was how often I looked at my watch after 20 minutes of running time. The plot for what its worth, is about the planning for, and eventual activation of, escape from the camp, ignoring totally the need for suspenseful build up, or character development. The film appears to have been made by someone who has previously been informed what a movie is, but has never actually seen one.
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Summary: You can't beat Ilsa!
Review: Released in 1974, Ilsa Shewolf of the SS is one of the very first true gore films, and still one of the most infamous. Much like Bloodsucking Freaks and I Spit On Your Grave, this movie is probably more controversial today then it was when it was released. One thing is for sure though, unlike those films, this movie is still truly shocking, thanks to better than usual effects and an even greater lack of good taste. To say Ilsa is in bad taste is a great understatement. If you're not offended by this one, you probably won't be offended by anything. Probably the nastiest bit is the woman who is boiled alive in hot water. If you have a strong stomach, and you love these over-the-top gore/exploitation films, then give this first in the Ilsa series a rent! ...
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Summary: My biggest porn mistake
Review: Something important happened in this film: the depictions of Nazi sadism are realistic; the use of prisoners for usually fatal experiments is credible and actually happened; the starvation and horror shows in every scene. A clear picture of evil at its worst. Then there's nudity, rape, slow torture and death. Perhaps the film is useful to get some idea of the horror of the Holocaust. Anti-semites will find a thrill here. But there is nothing in the least bit erotic or even less than horrifying in this film. I saw this fifteen years ago, and the images can still unsettle me. View if you must, but if this excites you, consider therapy.
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Summary: This is entertainment?
Review: That's the horrible part of it, there's no doubt that the producers hoped to entertain certain types of people here. Since this exploitation film has become quite famous I guess they succeeded. Well, if you want to see nude women tortured (though most of those scenes are mercifully short and choppy), I suppose this is right up your alley. I saw this and another Ilsa picture out of curiosity. The other one was just as sick, but had some skillful production values. This one doesn't even have that to justify its existance.
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Summary: Now that's what I call a video Nazi, I mean nasty!
Review: The exploitation film using Nazi Germany as a framework had its roots in The Night Porter, Love Camp 7, and then Salon Kitty, but Ilsa, She Wolf Of The SS, topped them all in sheer blood and brutality. So when producer Herman Traeger's onscreen message that the events of the movie were based on fact, the medical experiments in camps--(q.v. William L. Shirer's The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich) is concluded with "We dedicate this film with the hope that these horrors will never happen again", I have to raise an eyebrow of skepticism. With the new film rating system six years old at the time this film was released, what's the purpose of this movie if not to show scenes of naked women being tortured in the most horrific way? When Ilsa, the powerful, well-built, towering blonde commandant of Medical Camp 9, tells the women prisoners, that this isn't Dachau or the notorious women's prison Ravensbruck, well, that's true enough, but the following belies the pseudo-science the Nazis conducted on millions of prisoners. "Your stay will be short but you will be a help to the Reich. That is your destiny." Ilsa is hard-pressed to prove her theory that women can withstand pain by torture more than men. One of the prisoners, a woman named Anna, becomes her selection. Her gradual deterioration is directly proportionate to Ilsa's obsessiveness. Of the prisoners, the men are workers, the women are patients, of which a few are sent to the brothel to service the soldiers. As for the rest, they are subjected to medical experiments, such as Kala, whose face is horrible to watch. One of the newly arriving workers, Wolfe, a blond American, may be the commandant's Achilles heel, as he is able to satisfy the insatiable Ilsa, who has castrated previous others who haven't, including Mario, a prisoner Wolfe befriends who kind of resembles Dustin Hoffman. Together, they team up with the girls to break out of the camp at the right moment, as Wolfe is expecting the Allies to close in anytime soon. As stated in the intro, many of the people were composites of actual people. Ilsa, for instance, was partially based on Frau Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of Buchenwald, in terms of name (Ilse/Ilsa) and her having absolute power of life and death over everyone. There's also a lot of Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Dachau, where he conducted decompression chamber experiments as seen at one point in the movie. BTW, the victim in there is unbilled but is played by Uschi Digard, who made many underground exploitation flicks in the 1960's. And this rivals Dead Alive and Terror Firmer in sheer bloodiness, the difference being the brutality and torture. Many of the experiments are shown and are pretty gruesome to watch, so please don't eat anything before you watch this. The plenitude of full nudity is tame compared to what goes on. Ilsa is pretty callous too. When asked why she doesn't use anesthesia on a victim, she says, "Does one give caviar to guinea pigs?" This was the first of four Ilsa films, the other ones being The Wicked Warden, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, and Tigress of Siberia, of which Dyanne Thorne played all four Ilsas. This pretty much fits the definition of what the British call a video nasty.
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Summary: Sex, Gore, and Nazis!!! Oh MY!!!
Review: This 1974 sexploitation film has everything, and i mean everything. From a sadistic Nazi camp commandant (Ilsa, played by Dyann Thorne) to buxom SS guards to the brutal ( and I mean brutal) torture of female prisoners, there is little left to the imagination. The plot is fairly simple: Ilsa is the evil, sadistic Nazi doctor (sort of a female Mengele) in charge of a medical camp in which she performs amazingly brutal and bloody experiments. This is not for the squeamish. Blood flows and prisoners scream and die. In addition to the gore, there is a large amount of nudity and sex as ilsa enjoys having her way with male prisoners before castrating them for unsatisfactory performance. Talk about a tough grader! Nevertheless, Dyanne Thorne is gorgeous, and gives an over the top goose stepping, Heil Hitlering performance. She steals every scene she is in, whether she is [being with] a male prisoner, watching her 2 guards do the same, or torturing the female prisoners. The film is sexy, gory, disgusting and preachy all at the same time. A damn fine combination in my book.
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Summary: An Important Exploitation Film
Review: This film takes place in a Nazi concentration camp dedicated to pseudo medical experimentation on its prisoners. Ilsa, the commandant is portrayed in ruthless fashion by the stunning Dyanne Thorne. The protuberant image of Thorne is strikingly juxtaposed between her stunning blonde hair and the black Nazi uniform and regalia that adorn her person. Thorne designs and carries out the most excruciatingly painful and torturous experiments on her helpless victims for the sheer whimsy of impressing Nazi ideology and the gratification of her own views on the endurance of the female of the species. The buxom beauty and haughtiness of the barbarous Thorne perversely fixates the viewer as she doles out tortures in nonchalant and indifferent fashion. Thorne is the essence of cruelty for cruelty's sake. Thorne is the screen's incarnation of pure evil. I can think of no other film that is as disturbing as this one. The explicit sadism portrayed in this film may or may not have actually occurred as depicted. But unthinkable sadism, torture, cruelty and debauchery did actually occur in Nazi camps. The power of this film is that it shocks the viewer. It puts the viewer in the place of the helpless victim. And the viewer does feel helpless. The viewer gets the idea of what it may have been like to be subjugated twenty-four a day to unspeakable fears and horrors. What form of corporal suffering and humiliation for the mere amusement and pleasure of these Nazi captors is next? This is an unbelievably difficult film to watch because the brutality depicted is extremely graphic. After viewing this film I was shocked and I had a feeling of just how brutal the Nazis actually were. I wonder if producer David F. Friedman did not have this in mind when this film was being shot. Brutal, the Nazis were unbelievably brutal and intentionally or not this film depicts this.
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Summary: Titillating
Review: This is one of the most distasteful films ever made. Having said that, its reputation is legendary even beyond the scope of the sexploitation label under which it falls. "Ilsa" from start to finish is a collection of gruesome but highly inventive (if improbable) torture sequences held together by the thinnest of plots. The scenes in question would have been tasteless enough on their own but all of this is conducted in a Nazi concentration camp under the guise of medical experimentation. It leaves one to wonder if the bad breast implants that Thorne and several of the other actresses were sporting were the experiments that they were trying to perfect, but I digress. Just the thought of using the holocaust as a vehicle for a sexploitation story is enough to turn most people off, but in truth the events in "Ilsa" are far removed from the realities of WWII era Germany. The filmakers went a long way in making that distinction. If you're completely jaded, such as myself, and think that nothing is too sacred to make fun of then you'll probably find a lot of entertainment in "Ilsa". There's enough camp in it (intentional and not so) to offset the horrors onscreen. Ultimately, this is a perfect film for guys night, but if you're the slightest bit squeamish rent a "women in prison" movie instead.
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Summary: Spectacular Bad Taste
Review: This is the first and best of the four "Ilsa" films featuring the sensational Dyanne Thorne, who plays the sadistic head doctor in a Nazi death-camp that specializes in cruel experiments on nude women. Sounds too tasteless to be bearable? Well, actually no. If you can retain your sense of humour, you can find this film thoroughly enjoyable. It's mainly down to the hilarious camp acting of Thorn in the title role, whether she is strutting around the camp, spitting insults in a thick hammy accent at all the inmates, or seducing male prisoners in her boudoir using her famous chest to maximum effect. Still, the various scenes of torture are surprisingly convincing, and very realistic, especially those carried out by Ilsa in her secret torture chamber on a prize female subject, so this is definitely not a film for the squeamish. Theres even room for suspense during the climax when Ilsa's cruel reign is finally overturned. Overall, an enjoyable romp for people who have seen everything the mainstream has to offer. But due to such scenes as fingernail pulling, torture by electrified dildo and castration, prepare your friends before you show it to any of them!
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