5/10
Ilsa on the prowl
18 June 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Dyanne Thorne is Ilsa the Kommandant of the concentration camp in this Naziploitaion Grindhouse classic of the 1970s. She conducts private experiments to show that women have a higher threshold for pain than men and should be used in the front line which the Nazis actually did to a small extent.

Some of the nasty treatment dished out to the female inmates include electro shock treatment to the nipples including an electrified dildo thrust into their vaginas. At a dinner party for a visiting Nazi officer, a naked woman is placed on a block of ice with a garrote like noose tied around her neck. While they eat dinner, the ice slowly melts bloodily asphyxiating her. There are open wounds covered in Typhus infected maggots as well as women being infected with venereal diseases. There is also whippings and gang rapes of the female inmates. Women are submerged in hot water and slowly boiled, others are put into a decompression chambers. In all the torture scenes the women are naked.

The men also do not get away so easily from Ilsa. Right at the beginning we see a man who does not sexually satisfy Ilsa getting castrated for his shortcomings. The emphasis on the porn torture though is on the women.

Ilsa shows plenty of her ample breasts throughout the film and at one point urinates on the visiting Nazi officer.

This is a quickly shot film made in 9 days in the film lot containing the sets from Hogan's Heroes. Some of the script is laughable, some of the gore looks tame nowadays and the whole feel is more camp than exploitation 40 years on.

The guy who plays the American inmate and who manages to sexually satisfy Ilsa because he can keep on going like the Duracell Bunny can just about deliver his lines in a wooden manner.

There are some well shot action sequences at the end of the movie as some of the inmates stage a daring escape. As a film of its exploitation genre this is regarded as a classic even though it is a low budget, quickly shot and badly made film.
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