Love Camp (1977)
"Frauen im Liebeslager" (original title)

A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and forced to serve as prostitutes for them in a jungle brothel. The sadistic female warden decapitates uncooperative girls.

Director:

Jesús Franco

Writers:

Erwin C. Dietrich (screenplay), Erwin C. Dietrich (story)

Stars:

Muriel Montossé, Ada Tauler, Monica Swinn

Cast

Credited cast:
Muriel Montossé	...	Female Warden (as Nanda Van Bergen)
Ada Tauler	...	Angela Delame
Monica Swinn	...	Maria (as Monika Swin)
Esther Studer	...	Lupita Pavone (as Ester Studer)
Brigitte Meyer
Wal Davis	...	Gino da Guerra
Ingrid Kehr
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Monika Kälin	...	Tona

Storyline

A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and forced to serve as prostitutes for them in a jungle brothel. The sadistic female warden decapitates uncooperative girls.

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Plot Keywords:

jungle | brothel | female warden | erotica | sex slave | 

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Taglines:

An inferno of warped women!

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Switzerland

Language:

German

Release Date:

13 October 1977 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Love Camp

Filming Locations:

Cyprus

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 25,726,631 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Elite Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min 69 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)

User Reviews

Franco's Salo? Not among his best work. Silly but watchable.

Jess Franco has made some odd exploitation movies in his long and prolific career, and 'Love Camp' is one of his nuttiest. Never one to shy from jumping on a bandwagon, the title of this seems to deliberately evoke the legendary nazisploitation sleazefest 'Love Camp 7', and the plot in some ways is reminiscent of 'Salo', but with a twist. The twist being, that we aren't talking nazis here but revolutionaries. A group of young and beautiful women are kidnapped, taken into the jungle (what country? who knows) , and forced to be sex slaves for "the revolution". The female warden (who I assume is Nanda Van Bergen) is a sadistic lesbian and generally acts throughout like a poor man's Ilsa, another series of movies this tries to pattern itself on. 'Love Camp' isn't as explicitly violent as most of the aforementioned movies, and Franco seems more interested in showing lots of flesh rather than torture and gore. The girls spend most of their on screen time naked, and there are a few shower scenes and the like, so Franco sleaze buffs will not be disappointed on that score. However this is by no means near his best work, and you feel his heart wasn't really in it. Watchable but ultimately unsatisfying, I can only recommend it to complete Francophiles. Others less familiar with his work best steer clear of this one. He can do so much better than this mediocre effort!