"The film you are about to see is based upon documented fact. The
atrocities shown were conducted as 'medical experiments' in special
concentration camps throughout Hitler’s Third Reich. Although these crimes
against humanity are historically accurate, the characters depicted are
composites of notorious Nazi personalities; and the events portrayed, have been
condensed into one locality for dramatic purposes. Because of its shocking
subject matter, this film is restricted to adult only. We dedicate this film
with the hope that these heinous crimes will never occur again".
 |
| The forces of evil. |
The notice at the beginning of
this blog is what we see before the mayhem commences. The film opens with a
naked Ilsa on top of an equally naked male prisoner fornicating, as he does not
manage to satisfy the sex mad commandant of Medical Camp Nine his penis is amputated
and added to her collection. In the next scene we witness two trucks arrive at
the camp, one with men in the back who are deposited at the camp for work
purposes which includes fodder for Ilsa’s voracious appetite, and the second is
full of women who are to be used for sadistic medical experiments which
involves injecting the women with deadly decease’s and then attempting,
normally unsuccessfully, to cure them.
Also they are used for the sexual gratification of camp guards and high-ranking
Nazi visitors. While Ilsa is helping herself to an American prisoner who can
miraculously control his ejaculation and understands her craving for pain
whilst German patriotic music plays in the background, two women are being
flogged by a pair of topless female SS officers while another women is being
savagely raped and eventually killed by five male and one female guard.
 |
| The experiments. |
It is alleged that the character
of Ilsa is patterned after two real life murderous female’s including Ilse Koch
the wife of a commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald and Majdanek and
who was accused of being 'the concentration camp murderess' and suspected of
taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. The
other is said to be Irma Grese who was the youngest women to die judicially
under English law in the 20th century at the age of 22 years 67
days. Known as The Beast of Belsen or The Beautiful Beast. The accusations against her centred on her ill treatment and
murder of those imprisoned at the camps. These included: setting guard dogs on
inmates to savage them, arbitrary shootings and sadistic beatings with a whip.
Survivors provided detailed testimony of murders, tortures, and other
cruelties, especially towards women, acts in which Grese engaged during her
years at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. They testified to acts of sadism,
beatings and arbitrary shootings of prisoners, savaging of prisoners by her
trained and allegedly half-starved dogs, and to her selecting prisoners for the
gas chambers. Grese was reported to have habitually worn heavy boots and
carried a whip and a pistol. Witnesses testified that she took pleasure in
using both physical and psychological methods to torture the camp's inmates and
enjoyed shooting prisoners in cold blood. They also claimed that she beat some
women to death and whipped others using a plaited whip.
 |
| The cruelty. |
 |
| The ultimate punishment. |
Bad acting, with over the top fake
German accents and a really dodgy script is what you would expect from a film
of this calibre, and with apologies to Kenny Everett 'it's all in the worst
possible taste'. Rejected by the BBFC and banned in Australia and Norway Ilsa:
She Wolf of the SS (1975) is an American Nazi exploitation movie
directed by Don Edmonds, a man bestknown for this kind of low budget movie, and
written by Jonah Royston. The central role of Ilsa is taken by the buxom
American actress, nude model and former Las Vegas showgirl
Dyanna Thorne best
known for her role in this film and three other Ilsa sexploitation movies. A grindhouse
movie par excellence that you will watch with fascination and marvel how on
earth does this type of film come to be made with its gratuitous violence,
mainly against women, and lashings of naked ladies and sex. My copy was an
uncut version from Korea available via E-Bay if you’re interested?
