Friction Movie Review: Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS - by Michelle Kisner
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Having never seen any films in the infamous Nazisploitation genre, I decided to start with the infamous movie that popularized the concept: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. Nazisploitation films employ the classic women-in-prison tropes while adding the backdrop of Nazi concentration camps. It’s a terrible topic to be sure, but that’s why these are underground exploitation films. It definitely appeals to a niche audience and it plays off of the titillation received from combining sex and a very taboo subject matter. These films are not high-art by any means and they are not meant to be. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS proved to be so popular that it inspired a slew of other movies to be made with the same themes, with most of them being low-budget Italian affairs. The story centers around a Nazi prison camp overseen by a sex-hungry, blond bombshell named Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne). She perpetrates various tortures on the female inmates ...