 NAZI EXPLOITATION CINEMA
THE LAST ORGY OF THE THIRD REICH AKA:THE
GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY, DES FILLES POUR LE BOURREAU, L'ULTIMA ORGIA DELL III
REICH, LA ULTIMA ORGIA DE LA GESTAPO, CALIGULA RE-INCARNATED AS HITLER
- John Charles
There's
some camp flashback footage and the obligatory re-staging of Charlotte
Rampling's NIGHT PORTER
dance, but nothing of even passing interest, muchless of the "imprisoned
whore" variety.Top billed star Berger appears for all of four minutes
before getting blown away, thus suffering a much kinder fate than anyone
unfortunate enough to rent this tape. The worst of the hatch.
AKA: DELIRIUM
AND THE VENDETTA PART 2, SUBLIMINAL: A SPLENDID DAY TO DIE IN, THE EXPERIMENT,
HOLOCAUST 2: THE MEMORIES -John Charles
The Videatrics reiease has a running
time of 95 minutes, 54 second. The American Videotape release is 90 minute
23 seconds. Both versions have all the sex and violence in tact but the
Videatrics release contains added dialogue exchanges and longer scenes
in some cases.
They soon become the playthings
of the sadistic commandant -producer R.W. "Bob" Cresse- who likes
to suspend prisoners over sawhorses when he isn't just whipping them with
his belt. WIP staples like rapes and hose downs -accompanied by library
cues from old horror movies- follow before the Allies show up and shut
things down in a blood finale.
A fairly unremarkable film overall,
LOVE CAMP 7 boasts
one performance that makes it all worthwhile, Bob Cresse's lip-smacking,
scenery chewing turn as the commander provides the film with a welcome
campy shot in the arm. David Friedman has said in interviews
that Cresse was a closet Nazi in real-life and that certainly comes through
in his on-screen work; the man is simply enjoying himself too much. Some
sources list Friedman as the commandant but he only has a walk-on as "SS
Concentration Camp Commander Max Kemp".
Any queasiness one has about the
exploitation of the holocaust tragedy isn't helped by the fact that most
of the Germans in the film are played by Jewish men. The tortures on display
are disturbing but fairly mild considering what would come later. However,
they were explicit enough to get the film banned during England's "video
nasties" witch hunt a decade ago. - John Charles
Directed with a little more sexual
gusto than usual by the man responsible for HELL
TRAIN -77- and written by the director of
FRAULEIN DEVIL -77-, which also stars Patrizia Gori. Although
is a whip crack better than its above men, it's no ILSA
SHE WOLF OF THE SS- but then again, what
is? AKA: NATHALIE: RESCAPEE DE L'ENFER, NATHALIE
DANS L'ENFER NAZI
One of the more gruesome additions
to the Italian produced Nazi film craze of the 70s. Sirpa Lane is Hanna
Meyer a captured Jewish girl whose defiance against whoring for the SS
leads to her appointment as a stern Madame in a lush Nazi brothel.
Sirpa Lane stars as Hanna Myer, a young Jewish girl who is captured and
pressed into service as an SS whore. She refuses to cooperate and is
scheduled for execution. However, intervention from the camp commander
saves her at the last minute.
It seems that our heroine is the
ideal woman to service his decidedly masochistic tastes. Hanna plays along
and is presented with fake German l.D. and an appointment as the madam
of a lush Nazi brothel.Trouble comes a-knockin when Hanna's old boy friend
-now a German soldier- discovers her new vocation. Ashamed by her charade,
Hanna re-embraces her Jewish roots leading to an anti-Nazi invective that
costs her life.
During that time he participated
in a masochistic love affair with a Jewish prisoner -Charlotte Rampling-.
Their bizarre sexual fantasies begin anew when Rampling unexpectedly walks
into the hotel one day in 1957. When the Nazi underground objects
to his liaisons, Bogarde barricades himself and Rampling up in a small
apartment, unable to escape and slowly starving to death, they soon must
flee no matter what the consequences.
From a pure cinematic standpoint, THE NIGHT PORTER
is the best film of the cycle but this is more by default than anything
else. Arising from -relatively- non-exploitative origins, it is certainly
one of the tamest of the lot but still won't he getting any P.T.A. screenings
in the near future.
For example; Bogarde and Rampling
have a proclivity for screwing on broken glass. Al though this not explicitly
presented, the very thought may be too much for some. If however, your
tastes favor LOVE CAMP 7 or ILSA, then you can skip this one entirely.
Cavani's film is fairly engrossing
throughout. though it's not entirely clear just what the director is trying
to convey -the evils of fascism over come by the joys of masochism?- The
distant, aloof presentation and performances ultimately keep this from
being as compelling as it could have been. However, the film's most famous
scene -naked Rampling in Nazi regalia performing a Dietrich-style number
for a group of turned on SS officers- still packs an erotic punch. It would
he re-staged in various ways by later films but without half the kinky
impact. - John Charles SALON KITTY SS CUTTHROATS The meager artistic intentions never
interfere with the director's main goal; showing lots of naked babes doing
that "Seig Heil" thing. the final scene features one of the wildest
exploitation images of the 70's; the girls running naked through a battlefield
as live shells burst around them.
It's worth the trouble of tracking
this tape down just to savor those few moments. The rest of the film is
standard issue softcore but then whole enterprise is so light-hearted,
a very welcome change of pace from the Nazi flicks of the period. AKA:
EINE ARMEE GRETCHAN, FRAULEINS IN UNIFORM,
FRAULEINS WITHOUT UNIFORMS - John Charles
From the director of THE
BIG BUST OUT -this
film is set in a female prison camp to house inmates selected for use in
barbaric transplant experiments by a nazi doctor. One soldier makes the mistake of
fallillg in love with his assigned prisoner and has his testicles removed
and transplanted onto an impotent German officer. When the young recruit
discovers he's been surgically hacked he vows revenge. A spectacularly ludicrous lovers-in-peril
plot, but viewers will want to keep a shut eye during the film's gory,
unrestrained moments of ovary and testicle surgery. AKA: WOMEN'S
CAMP 23 - THE SEED OF DEATH, CAPTIVE WOMEN 2 SS EXPERIMENTS, KOMMANDATUR,
SS EXTERMINATION CAMP Routinely anti Semitic with homosexual
hate overtones and all the expected servings of torture and sex. By this
we mean; two floggings; gratuitous nudity; Nazi boot licking; gas chamber
death; a catfight; lesbianism; rape; and two bouts of necrophilia, the
second of which sees the woman copulate her lover back from the dead.The
end credits include a composite of who were they and where are they now
Nazis like Joseph Mengele and Franz Murer. AKA: SS-119
CAMPO SE SEXO Y VIOLENCIA, KZ 9 LAGER Sl STERMINO, WOMEN'S CAMP 119- John Charles
Gabriele Carrara, who later appeared
in SS EXTERMINATION CAMP
is the brothel's commander and steals the show with his outlandish, sexually
vulgar performance. The last ten minutes is unforgettable as the film turns
into a soft core orgy of ballistic moralizing, mass alcohol abuse, flesh
fondling, and crossdressing.
Although slow in the beginning -as
all Mattei films are-, come the halfway point the interest level rises
noticeably when Mattei's imagery and story substance begins to breathe
life and logic into the film; though it could not be enough to earn the
film any new viewers outside the genre.AKA:
CASA PRIVATA PER LE SS
Unrelenting wretched,
SS HELL CAMP further demonstrates its willingness
to repulse with scenes of finger nail plucking; intense floggings; a drowning;
human rat food, and both breast and vagina electrocution complete with
blood letting.
Only the film's pasted in scenes
of color faded battle footage, B&W news reel excerpts, and the heroic
efforts of Italian partisans, give you a chance to regain your composure.
They do not come more revolting than this. AKA: LA
BESTIA IN CALORE, EXPERIMENTS OF THE SS FINAL DAYS.
SS SPECIAL SECTION WOMEN WOMEN
IN CELL BLOCK 7 Pretty dismal all around, especially
during those moments where horrowed war footage takes over. Frank Brilnil performance as an
SS officer -who loves to horsy ride the hookers- is the only justifiable
reason to tune in. But for those that must, the French
Canadian video version entitled TRAIN SPECIAL
POUR HITLER
Other Nazi Sexploitation Winners STALAG
69 -XXX- Cast: Angelique Pettyjohn NANCY
CREW MEETS DR. FREIDSTEIN -bondage- Cast:
Kiri Kelly, Jay Dee, Sloane Winters. 1990 B&D Pleasures
HITLER'S HARLOT
-fetish- BLUE
ICE -XXX- Cast: Helga, Hershel Savage, Paul
Thomas. 1984 85 min Caballero Video
FANTASMES INTERDITS
-XXX- Alpha Video GIRLS OF THE THIRD REICH
-XXX- Cast: Francoise Pipillon, HITLER'S PARTOUZE
-XXX- Cast: Gayle Sterling, Long Chainey,
John Mar tin, Alicia Monet as Eva Braun. Queen's X Video -France- KOLASSAL
ORGIE -XXX- Cast: Gladys Serval, Stanislas
l'iotr. 60 min Films Concorde Video PRISONER
OF PARADISE -XXX- Dir: Gail Palmer, Bob Chinn
Cast: Seka, John Holmes, Jade Wong. VCX Video
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