SS Experiment Camp - 1976

 Also known as SS Experiment Love Camp.

Bizarre Magazine, in a 2004 overview of the Naziploitation genre, said the following: "Its advertising campaign, an image of a semi-naked woman hanging upside-down from a crucifix, was instrumental in bringing unwanted attention to the Nasties, although, beyond that, its infamy is unwarranted" -Wikipedia

Two things here, not just related to this but the entire genre.  One, it is absolutely jaw dropping to think that the women starring in movies like this were born in probably the 1950s or even the 1940s.  They're great-grandmothers now, and I just cannot quite fathom that when we see the level of sexuality, when we see their young supple bodies, when I as a male get an erection while watching segments of this film.

Second, the human race re: its relationship to sexual violence, masochism, and sadism.  BDSM has Masochism represented strongly, encompassing the entire second half of the 4 letters.  Whether you interpret SM as Sadomasochism or as Sadism/Masochism, they're obviously quite similar and around the same level of potential simulated or real sexuality mixed with a level of violence or minimally inflicted "torture".

What's fascinating about that to me is that there was a time when we confronted this head on, via an art form that was well known enough to spark controversy and receive censorship.  The world has only escalated from here and outside of a few times when we might remove one certain video of a porn star who maybe turns out to be 17 or gets cancelled or some stupid shit like that, we now have this type of thing available at any website, probably with multiple full penetrations in addition to what is filmed here.  

If you as a viewer are someone who doubts about if there should be censorship, watch films like this. Not necessarily this one, but of this genre. This is a movie in which characters who are presumably Jews are raped by Nazis and like it, after all. There’s almost less scenes of women wearing clothes in this film than scenes of nude women, and there’s no plot it’s just exploitation for 90 minutes. I think part of the Video Nasty was always something saying something on the lines of “Why does this exist? Who is this for? We should not have people who want entertainment like this. In an ideal world no one seeks out this type of entertainment.”

 

It’s not a sentiment I disagree with. Which makes it a very fascinating thing to study as a moment in time when people who are great-grandfathers now were watching Nazi rape in art house cinemas. Not something I think will come back. This isn’t a great example of it though and I’ll give this only 2 stars.

Nasty Meter: 8/10

Argument: For Video Nasty