I am sure you have heard of a show called Hogan’s Heroes. Maybe even found it funny? No? Yes? Well after that show was cancelled, a little film called Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS was filmed on the set of that program. You also might find this movie funny, you sick son of a bitch.
It actually is kind of amusing, but only because it is completely exploitative. Ilsa is a commandant of a Nazi medical/prison camp. She is conducting various experiments on women to prove her theory that woman can withstand pain far better than men. She also really likes sex, and will select a male prisoner to have sex with at random. She however is left unfulfilled when they achieve orgasm, so they are then castrated. That is until she selects an American (named Wolfe, oddly enough) who has the ability to go all night long and never climax. The film basically alternates scenes of sex and torture for 90 minutes.
There are a few things you must know prior to watching this. Almost every female is nude at some point in this film. A lot of them are tortured brutally, mostly while nude. And I mean nude. And I mean brutally. Women are raped, beaten with whips, boiled alive, given diseases. One is hung by her neck from the ceiling while standing on a melting block of ice at a dinner table while guests dine. The gore in the film was not so much shocking as the acts of torture themselves. There was an alarming amount of experiments that involve female genitalia. There is a fair amount of gore, but not the amount one may expect from the events that happen in the film. It’s actually quite fascinating; the violence in this film is actually the only part that was done really well (sans the really poorly choreographed ”fights” at the end). The acting is sub par, the direction fairly standard, and even though the blood was not that realistic most of the time, the scenes of torture were quite effective. If you like films such as Saw and Hostel, give this film a watch. Not bad for 1975.
So why watch a film like this? With such gratuitous nudity and scenes of extreme torture and sadistic behavior? Because it’s good. It is exploitation and you must keep that in mind when watching this. But, I mean, really? Sex and violence? Do I really need to sell it any more than that?
It actually is kind of amusing, but only because it is completely exploitative. Ilsa is a commandant of a Nazi medical/prison camp. She is conducting various experiments on women to prove her theory that woman can withstand pain far better than men. She also really likes sex, and will select a male prisoner to have sex with at random. She however is left unfulfilled when they achieve orgasm, so they are then castrated. That is until she selects an American (named Wolfe, oddly enough) who has the ability to go all night long and never climax. The film basically alternates scenes of sex and torture for 90 minutes.
There are a few things you must know prior to watching this. Almost every female is nude at some point in this film. A lot of them are tortured brutally, mostly while nude. And I mean nude. And I mean brutally. Women are raped, beaten with whips, boiled alive, given diseases. One is hung by her neck from the ceiling while standing on a melting block of ice at a dinner table while guests dine. The gore in the film was not so much shocking as the acts of torture themselves. There was an alarming amount of experiments that involve female genitalia. There is a fair amount of gore, but not the amount one may expect from the events that happen in the film. It’s actually quite fascinating; the violence in this film is actually the only part that was done really well (sans the really poorly choreographed ”fights” at the end). The acting is sub par, the direction fairly standard, and even though the blood was not that realistic most of the time, the scenes of torture were quite effective. If you like films such as Saw and Hostel, give this film a watch. Not bad for 1975.
So why watch a film like this? With such gratuitous nudity and scenes of extreme torture and sadistic behavior? Because it’s good. It is exploitation and you must keep that in mind when watching this. But, I mean, really? Sex and violence? Do I really need to sell it any more than that?
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