It is 1945. Ilsa (played by former Las Vegas showgirl Dyanne Thorne) is the buxom Nazi medical scientist who has an idea that women have a higher pain tolerance than men.
She tests her theory by subjecting female prisoners at Medical Camp 9 to various types of torture – infecting women with diseases, torturing them with electric shocks, whipping them, boiling them alive and putting maggots in their wounds – to test their tolerance for pain.
Ilsa also conducts private research for her own sadistic pleasure, forcing male prisoners to service her – and castrating them after having sex if they do not satisfy her cravings.
“Once a prisoner has slept with me, he will never sleep with a woman again,” snarls the She Wolf.
Later, Ilsa lays on a banquet to entertain a visiting over-decorated porcine SS general (Wolfgang Roehm). The centrepiece of the table is a nude girl standing on a block of ice, a noose around her neck. As the meal wears on, the ice melts and the girl is strangled, all for the general’s delectation.
After the banquet, Ilsa complies with her superior officer’s request for a little urolagnial satisfaction.
There is lots of nudity and graphic violence, as you would expect from a 1970s sexploitation film, although much of the violence is also left to the imagination.
Some of Ilsa was shot on sets at the MGM Culver City backlot which were originally used as Stalag 13 in the Hogan’s Heroes‘ TV series. Some of the sets were destroyed during filming.
Ilsa is an undisputed classic of the sexploitation/Nazisploitation genre. The Canadian-produced film spawned two official sequels – Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheikhs and Ilsa: Tigress of Siberia.
Ilsa
Dyanne Thorne Maigret
Sandy Richman Ingrid
Jo Jo Deville Prisoner in pressure chamber
Uschi Digard Wolfe
Gregory Knoph Mario
Tony Mumolo Anna
Maria Marx Kata
Nicolle Riddell Dr Binz
George ‘Buck’ Flower Gretchen
Rodina Keeler General
Richard Kennedy (Wolfgang Roehm) Richter
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She tests her theory by subjecting female prisoners at Medical Camp 9 to various types of torture – infecting women with diseases, torturing them with electric shocks, whipping them, boiling them alive and putting maggots in their wounds – to test their tolerance for pain.
There is lots of nudity and graphic violence, as you would expect from a 1970s sexploitation film, although much of the violence is also left to the imagination.
Ilsa
