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3/10
Nazis are so booooooring!
14 December 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Nazi-exploitation is not only the most pointless sub genre in horror cinema ever; the infamous movies that fall into this category also somehow always manage to be extremely boring AND shockingly sadistic at the same time! That's such an irritating combination, as you always continue watching a bad film because you're awaiting more and better shock-moments. Next to "Ilsa – She Wolf of the SS", "SS Hell Camp" is probably the most known title in this questionable horror sub genre, mainly because it gained an immediate "video nasty" status. Judging by all the sick ideas and ill-natured sleaze-footage featuring in this film, it really does deserve its dubious reputation, but most of all it's an unbelievably poor production with imbecile plotting and amateurish editing. "SS Hell Camp" does open more energetically than usual is the case in Nazi-exploitation, with the introduction of a deranged female doctor determined to create a new monstrous race. She has the prototype ready (a hyper-ugly and hairy midget) and gives him Jewish girls to rape and kill. Entirely detached from these typically vile sexual experiments, we also follow a group of local resistance fighters in their battle against the Third Reich. The two poor story lines come together near the end of the film, when crazy doctor Kratsch kidnaps some girl-members of the resistance to experiment upon. The experiments are effectively nauseating despite a rather high cheese-factor. During the film's sickest sequence, a pan camera move shows several girls being tortured in repulsive ways and the "highlight" involves the monster tearing out a poor girl's pubic hair before eating it. Bah! Earlier in the film, I was already perplexed by the image of a baby being thrown in the air and shot. When there isn't any torturing going on, it's a dreadfully boring film with real WWII documentary footage is badly edited it and acting performances so lousy they'll make your ears hurt.
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