trashgang Supposed to be a comedy about the torture in the real Nazi camps this turned out to become a rather gory flick for the time it was made. It was based on real characters from the Nazi regime but once they started shooting they realized that a flick having extreme torture can't be funny especially when it all happened for real (it was based on Ilse Koch who made lampshades from human skin). Once the effects came on and a first rough cut was shown people ran out of the theatre. Before they knew it a new genre was born, sexploitation.If you watch it nowadays it's rather cheesy sometimes but do realize made in 1975 it came out before the nasty slashers and almost 10 years before the Video Nasty era. People were indeed shocked by watching it. The effects were done by Joe Blasco and he just came out of the effects for The Addams Family series. I must say that some effects (those on faces) didn't stand the time but if you are not into horror and surely not into exploitation then some scene's still can be shocking. It's also Dyanne Thorne as Ilsa that takes this flick to another level. She gives a good performance . It's funny to see almost all girls full frontal but Dyanne never did, she only revealed her juggs. Nowadays she has a private wedding chapel in Las Vegas. Ilsa still stands up against a lot of Italian rip-offs who were mostly based on the sex in stead of the horror. Still, back then for a few years the Nazi exploitation was the next big thing but it ruined itself due the sex taking over the gore or effects. Even Ilsa spawned 2 other flicks and one that was made by Jess Franco and normally is called Greta Haus Ohne Manner (1977) but having Dyanne in it it soon was renamed Ilsa The Wicked Warden.Don't watch it for the acting and surely not for the outbreak which do look funny but for the idea of the makers and for the horror of the story itself.Gore 2/5 Nudity 4/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

billcr12 Ilsa is Dyanne Thorne, a buxom blonde actress with little acting ability, as a Nazi camp commander. Loosely(very) based on the real life war criminal, Ilse Koch, the voracious lady tortures the prisoners, especially the women, in order to prove that they are tougher than men, and therefore, should be able to be allowed in combat. Ilsa loves sex, and every night she selects a prisoner for intercourse, and after the guy finishes, she has him castrated. This is repeated on a regular basis until she finds a partner who can go all night like a machine. This is pure exploitation, and the campiness is at its height with the set of Hogan's Heroes used as the backdrop for a fun filled movie. The only thing missing is Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer to complete the circle of insanity. Sit back and rest your mind for a while to escape reality with Ms. Thorne's sexiness.

TheExpatriate700 Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is a surprisingly well-made film, given its garish title and unabashed exploitative intent. For all the gore, nudity, and laughter inducing dialogue, the film features good camera work, quality special effects, and a quick moving plot. It follows the travails of an American soldier sent to a Nazi medical camp run by Ilsa, who is obsessed with proving women's superior capacity to handle pain so that she can go to the front lines.Ilsa represents Nazispoitation at its finest. Throwing the history book out the window, the film gives us a Nazi concentration camp populated by topless female guards and open lesbians. Just for fun, it adds gory experiments which all seem to require attractive nude women. Is it tasteless? Lords yes! But it's also fun.What takes this a notch above other exploitation films is that genuine talent was involved. Ilsa has quality cinematography and surprisingly good special effects. (This may be because, as director Don Edmonds points out, many of the people involved were mainstream filmmakers working under pseudonyms for a quick buck.) Although no one would mistake it for Oscar material, Ilsa is a worthwhile film for all exploitation fans.

chuck-219 Most here are aware of how this one plays out. Experiments are conducted on war camp prisoners, which are all overseen by our lovely Fraulein Doktor (of title fame). This gal has a nasty habit of collecting male "forget me nots". Some collect stamps. Others, genitals. Call her an eccentric.Anyhow, politics between the camp and Berlin come into play along with an American she can't figure out (and the requisite escape plans brewing), but those are mere plot details. No sense boring everyone with gratuitous information on the storyline when there's some juicy bits to discuss.Torture of many respects abound in this one. Castration, gang rape, bacterial/viral injections, human lobster pots, slow hanging (mit eis schmelzen), nipple 'trodes, the list goes on and on. The production values are pretty fair in this one (the sets being left over from "Hogan's Heroes") and the makeup's not half bad. The acting's a bit over the top in "Ilsa", especially with the doktor's blonde henchwomen, but who can really fault topless floggers? Not I.Thumbs up for me here. It's only single "X", but still some nasty fun.Charlie.