Sergio Garrone's first foray into nazisploitation and to be brutally honest it's considerably uninspired. SS Experiment Love Camp, also known as Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur and SS Experiment Camp. Starring: Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni and Serafino Profumo.

First making a name for itself by being one of the most notorious during the video nasty witch hunt of mid-'80s Britannia. Made a year before Batzella's The Beast In Heat (1977). Garrone's SS Experiment Love Camp has a marginally rich depth to its story, given the subject matter and questionable plot devices, a few off the top of my head include; torture, surgical experimentation, castration and of course love.

The picture essentially showcases atrocities taking place at an unspecified concentration camp. Female POWs are subjected to repeated raping from a selection of German soldiers, in an attempt to...umm learn something? Or perhaps aid the creation of the 'super' race, either way they're definitely taking a page out of Mengele's book. Running alongside this is a Colonel (Cerioni) who needs a new set of balls - after having them bit off/mutilated by a woman he attempted to rape, a female POW (Corazzi) who falls in love with a German soldier named Helmut (Carven), a misogynistic Sergeant (Profumo) and a doctor working against his will.

Helmut - the said soldier in love strikes a deal with Col. von Kleiben, he will volunteer to be the second subject for an experiment so long as he is allowed to stay at the base and continue seeing Mirelle (his love). Unbeknown to him the experiment is really a ball transplant for the scheming von Kleiben, culminating with Helmut going 'nuts' when he tries to make love to Mirelle and thus sets out to seek revenge against von Kleiben. To be honest, it's really in the last 10 - 15 minutes when this film comes together and truly entertains the viewer.

I have intentionally used 'friendly' images as to not have my blog reported for not having a warning for adult material. So, apologies if they are somewhat boring.



I was disappointed by SS Experiment Love Camp, I think I hyped it up to something of a super sleaze-tacular and what I got was more snooze-tacular. The wooden acting, bad script and scraping of the proverbial barrel production values are only further marred by the sluggish pace, overly long scenes of dialogue scenes, a complete lack of style, and the most important ingredient sleaze. Yes there's boobs, yes there's bums, yes there's some scenes of dodgy surgery, but they're just so few and far between that aside from the boobs and bums and human experimentation there's little to captivate one's attention.
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