Year of release- 1976
Director- Sergio Garrone
Stars- Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni
The film follows a group of female political prisoners who have just been sent to, as the title suggests, SS Experiment Camp for what can only be described as bizarre and pointless sexual experiments. Some of the prisoners are forced into prostitution for the camps built in brothel which is supposed to boost morale amongst the Nazi guards, who all seem to be more interested in lying in their Y-fronts in front of one another for most of the film. The rest of the prisoners are forced to basically just have sex with Nazi’s while a predatory lesbian makes notes, and molests one of the prisoners now and again. The film quickly loses its collective shit however, when it is discovered that the purpose of these experiments is to find the most Aryan set of balls from amongst the clearly not Aryan guards, which are then chopped off only to be transplanted to the camp commandant who, as we discover, lost his on the Russian front.
The film follows a group of female political prisoners who have just been sent to, as the title suggests, SS Experiment Camp for what can only be described as bizarre and pointless sexual experiments. Some of the prisoners are forced into prostitution for the camps built in brothel which is supposed to boost morale amongst the Nazi guards, who all seem to be more interested in lying in their Y-fronts in front of one another for most of the film. The rest of the prisoners are forced to basically just have sex with Nazi’s while a predatory lesbian makes notes, and molests one of the prisoners now and again. The film quickly loses its collective shit however, when it is discovered that the purpose of these experiments is to find the most Aryan set of balls from amongst the clearly not Aryan guards, which are then chopped off only to be transplanted to the camp commandant who, as we discover, lost his on the Russian front.
This whole film is just one giant clusterfuck. Within
the first four minutes of the film we see full frontal nudity, electric chair
torture, urine and a furnace for dead bodies that causes people to break into interpretive
dance, don’t believe me, watch it for yourself. After this stunning opening that
has about as much taste as a blind 70’s pimp, we are then treated to what I can
only describe as a constant barrage of pornographic failure. The film constantly
tries to be titillating, but its fumbled attempts simply come off as some kind
of crude Benny Hill sketch just with more pubic hair and Nazi imagery. Even the
camp itself is a joke, its more like Butlins than Belzec, the prisoners can
even walk around outside at night, in their “uniforms” which are little more
than old bathrobes. For the most part the oddly well fed prisoners don’t even
seem to mind being there, and treat it more like a hen party than a concentration
camp.
It is bizarre to think that this film was, and is
still today one of the most talked about Video Nasties, and even one of the
most famous Nazisploitation films of this era. Putting aside the sporadic unintentional
humour the film provides, this film is downright boring. It isn’t nasty enough to
be as shocking and entertaining as Ilsa,
She Wolf Of The SS, and it isn’t as artistic as Salon Kitty or The Night
Porter (which it so desperately wants to be) to be even remotely thought
provoking. The director Sergio Garrone shot this back-to-back with another Nazisploitation
sex film called SS Womens Camp which
I thankfully haven’t had to suffer through…yet. Overall this is a very boring, slow,
cheap and grotty vague rip-off of Salon
Kitty, it does have moments that made me laugh but for all the wrong
reasons, this one gets 3.5/10.
Only just found this comment, Yeah that furnace is just, odd, just very very odd.
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