Visitors Review

Woodyanders (2012-05-25 23:47)

A perfectly foul, harsh and disgusting Nazisploitation flick

All kinds of horrible stuff happens to the luckless lady prisoners atSS Camp 5. Their fierce and sadistic Nazi captors either force thewomen to become prostitutes so they can sexually service Nazi officersand boost morale or use them as guinea pigs for barbaric scientificexperiments. Director/co-writer Sergio Garrone certainly doesn't skimpon the leering low-grade sleaze: we've got plentiful gratuitous distaffnudity, two group shower scenes, an orgy, a few sordid soft-core sexscenes, and one very nasty rape. Moreover, Garrone delivers the raw,ugly and sickening brutality by the nauseating bucketful: Among thehideous sights on display are four would-be escapees being torched inan oven, various poor ladies having their legs set on fire, one gal hasher head crushed in a vice, another gets repeatedly punched in thestomach with sharp brass knuckles, a third lass has flaming bamboosticks placed under her fingernails (ouch!), and a fourth woman has hertongue torn out with a huge pair of tongs. This thoroughly fetid flickfurther benefits from the sound acting by a capable cast, withespecially stand-out turns by foxy Pam Grier lookalike Rita Manna asfeisty Jamaican Alina, Giorgio Cerioni as the humane Colonel Strasser,Serafino Profuma as cruel commandant Lt. Hans, Paola Corazzi asfetching blonde Edith, Patrizia Melegna as mean Nazi bitch Greta, PaolaD'Egidio as the gutsy Deborah, Attilio Dottesio as quack scientist Dr.Abraham, and Paola Lelio as homely fat whorehouse madam Magda. MaurizioCentini's plain cinematography, the moody, melancholy, flesh-crawlingsynthesizer score by Vasili Kojucharov and Roberto Pregadio, and thegrim, despairing tone all greatly add to the overall considerablesliminess and mean-spiritedness of this choice sick ItalianNazisploitation trash.

Jens Kofoed-Pihl (2012-05-25 08:47)

Routine Italian Nazisploitation

This notorious video nasty, "SS Camp 5 - Women's Hell", was shotback-to-back with Garrone's "SS Experiment Love Camp", some of the samescenes were used. It isn't more vile than others but the otherwise liberalHolland cut over 30 min. of it's 92 min. running time! It's uncut likemostreleases in Denmark. The film delivers the same usual over-the-top tortureand sexual degradation against women (they escape in the end, though). Notthe best or worst of the genre - for collectors only.

Coventry (2012-05-23 13:28)

Nazi boredom & incompetence Camp...

"Naziploitation" has got to be the most worthless and redundant subgenre of horror cinema, and yet it was extremely popular during thelate 70's. All these controversial-sounding titles like "SS Hell Camp","SS Experiment Love Camp" or this "SS Camp 5: Women's Hell" areextremely boring and poorly made movies and not even half as shockingas they think they are. Tinto Brass' "Salon Kitty" and theever-infamous "Ilsa – She Wolf of the SS" are still somewhatinteresting, but that's merely because they function as simple andstraightforward sex films. This "SS Camp 5: Women's Hell" is the worstone yet. It's a totally mundane and ugly movie without action, suspenseor atmosphere. The Second World War is almost over, but these sadisticGenerals in the camp don't yet realize that Germany is losing. Whenevera shipment of new prisoner girls arrives, they get divided into twogroups, namely whores and medical guinea pigs. The only thing I learnedfrom this movie is that Nazis apparently liked to play with fire… Themedical experiments all involve setting the girls (or at least certainbody parts) on fire. Whenever they want to punish a girl for insultingthe Third Reich; they use fire. Whenever a girl needs to be eliminated…Well, you know the drill. In the end Russians invade the camp, thefemale prisoners – led by a Jamaican babe – join the battle againsttheir torments, and they live happily after all. Insufferable garbage,avoid at all costs.

Dr. Gore (2012-05-23 00:38)

Nazis getting nasty

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*"S.S. Camp 5: Women's Hell" concerns itself with race relations, abortion,medical experiments, mass female showering and other important issues whiletelling the tale of prisoners in a Nazi prison. Female prisoners of course.The good looking ones are sent to be prostitutes. The not so glamorous onesare sent to be medical experiments. Their favorite experiment was pouringoil onto the leg of a prisoner and setting it on fire. See, that way thedoctors can look at the burn wound and see if they can heal it. Or else itwas all for the viewers pleasure so he can see a female scream inpain.Yes, it was another lowdown Naziploitation movie. I won't rest until I'veseen them all. They are all so unbelievably slimy. Naziploitation flicks arewomen's prison movies except they have the Nazi stigma drenched over them. Ifeel dirty after watching them. I'm almost ashamed to admit having seen it.Almost! This one was a little tame. On the plus side, there was nudity and two massshower scenes. There is a decent torture scene and a couple of unnecessarymedical experiment scenes. So that's good. But all of the sex scenes wereweak. The women weren't that attractive and there was no gratuitousgirl/girl action. I mean, the female warden should be horny. Am I wrong? Shewasn't. Nor was she overly sadistic. Ilsa, we needed you for this one. Wortha peek though if you love a good, wholesome Nazi prisonflick.