Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Don Edmonds

Writers:

Jonah Royston (writer)
John C.W. Saxton (writer)

Release Date:

October 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller | War

Tagline:

The most dreaded Nazi of them all!

Plot:

Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments". Ilsa's goal is to prove...

Plot Keywords:

Evil | Death | Nazi | Death Camp | Medical Experiment

Cast

Dyanne Thorne	...	Ilsa
Gregory Knoph	...	Wolfe
Tony Mumolo	...	Mario
Maria Marx	...	Anna
Nicolle Riddell	...	Kata
Jo Jo Deville	...	Ingrid
Sandy Richman	...	Maigret
George 'Buck' Flower	...	Binz (as C.D. Lafleuer)
Rodina Keeler	...	Gretchen
Richard Kennedy	...	Nazi general (as Wolfgang Roehm)
Lance Marshall	...	Richter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David F. Friedman
John F. Goff	...	Nazi camp guard

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA | West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Italy:VM18 (video rating) (cut) | Norway:18 (re-rating) (2007) | Sweden:15 | Argentina:18 | Australia:(Banned) | Denmark:16 | Finland:K-18 (DVD rating) | Norway:(Banned) | UK:R | USA:R (cut) (1976) | USA:X (self applied) | Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Cinema General Studios - 846 N. Cahuenga, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Aeteas Filmproduktions

Trivia:

Phyllis Davis was originally considered for the role of Ilsa.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The German machine gun used in the film is in fact a U.S. 50 caliber Browning.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "House M.D.: Love Hurts (#1.20)" (2005)

Classic

An exploitation classic that is a surprisingly enjoyable film. Ilsa, the Arian commandant of a secret medical facility, sets out to prove to her doubting superiors that women are able to endure greater pain and suffering than men. She does this by torturing the female inmates in increasingly diabolical ways, while trying to break the American 'sexual freak of nature', Wolfe. Cue lots of gratuitous nudity, castration, strangulation, boiling alive, magnificent pre-implant breasts, softcore sex and gang rape, golden showers, and general bloody mayhem. The German accents are hilarious, and the acting barely one step up from Hershael Gordon Lewis and early John Waters. It even has the ubiquitous 'moral message' at the beginning. But unlike so many of these movies, 'Ilsa' manages to avoid descending into tedious repetition half way through, and builds to a brilliantly ludicrous climax in which an entire camp is gunned down by machine gun fire, without a drop of blood being spilt. Brilliant.