Ilsa - She Wolf Of SS

This is one of those movies where you get exactly what you expect. It's a B-movie, essentially low-budget, but it's not as brutal as some Chinese or Japanese pieces. It's actually quite restrained, which allows the viewer to focus on the excessive nudity, and yet it remains modest. It's not a shocking film, but for fans of debauchery, it's still entertaining. (02.07.2014)

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is famously shocking, but it’s not nearly as shocking as it claims to be. There’s plenty of explicit sex in it, but the violence and blood, of which there is also an abundance, don’t have much of an effect. The reason for that is that the film itself is terribly naïve, amateurish and boring. Poor acting and inept directing make it impossible to identify with any of the main or supporting characters on the other side of the barricade, and as far as atmosphere is concerned, there is emptiness on the camp’s parade ground. The film is passable in terms of its screenplay – the modest runtime and the amount of violence and sex would have been enough for a decent portion of perverse entertainment. But it would have to have been filmed by someone with more skill. (10.01.2003)

“I love you! You need to empty yourself on me!” It’s hard to dedicate something to the victims of the Holocaust while holding your penis in your hand, Mr. Edmonds. His Fifty Shades of Shoah might be intriguing for connoisseurs who strangle their wife with the garter belt of the Luftwaffe’s top commander during sex at home, but I found it affected, occasionally unintentionally funny, and surprisingly dull given the subject matter. The developed camp leader reminded me a bit of Major Houlihan from *M*A*S*H*, perhaps because she was looking for Donald Penobscott, who digs tunnels (not for escape purposes). (24.04.2023)