OK, before I start this review, I must make an admission:  I have a terrible soft spot for the whole Nazisploitation subgenre.  90% of these flicks are atrocious, not just in content, but in filmic quality, and I know that before I ever sit down to watch one.  And this film is no exception.  It is Z-grade across the board and most people would consider this film a waste of time.  So I will admit all of this up front—I have a bit of a bias.

The director of S.S. Experiment Love Camp, Sergio Garrone, made his name directing cheap actioners, a few spaghetti western knock-offs, and softcore porn films, but is best know for this effort and its companion piece, SS Camp: Women’s Hell.  While I’ve only seen his two Nazisploitation movies, if they are any indication, it is probably a good thing that his time as a director was relatively short-lived.

This film is infamous because it was the advertisement for it in a British magazine that sparked the entire video nasty insanity in the mid-80’s in Great Britain.  Banned until 2006, the BBFC have now released the film entirely uncut with an admission that the film itself is rather tame and that the title and artwork more than the content was the cause of the banning of the film.  The BBFC goes on to say that they only ban or censor films that are “harmful or illegal.”  They go on to say that this film is neither harmful nor illegal, but it is tasteless; but being tasteless isn’t sufficient to censor it.

The BBFC’s statement is right on the mark.  This film is relatively tame and wouldn’t garner more than an R-rating even if it were re-submitted to the MPAA today.  The plot concerns a small Nazi camp that is tasked with doing vague sexual experiments using decorated Nazi soldiers and “political prisoners.”  It is never made clear just why these soldiers must have sex with the prisoners other than for the entertainment of the rather voyeuristic staff who get to watch.  And the film never mentions or even implies that the prisoners are Jewish—just that they are “political prisoners.”

Helmut is a good German soldier who is different from the rest of the men.  He isn’t depraved, although he does consent to the experiments in the name of the Reich.  He’s also a reflective intellectual who is more interested in reading a book than participating in another lewd orgy.  He also has another fabulous attribute:  he is rather well-endowed.  Helmut falls for his sex partner and the feelings are reciprocated.   Unfortunately, the camp commandant has seen Helmut and his “endowment” in action.  Being impotent due to an…well, let’s just call it an accident…, the commandant hatches a plan to transplant Helmut’s member to himself.

Helmut unwittingly agrees to go along with this experiment in order to stay with his lover, but once the operation is over, he realizes his mistake and he and the girls go on a rampage to seek revenge for all of the terrible and depraved things the camp has done to them. 

The film is full of stupid experiments on the girls, none of which are particularly nasty.  For example, there is a scene where an airhose is inserted into a girl’s ear and turned on.  This apparently causes a little bleeding and unbearable pain until the heart stops.  Another experiment involves hooking a girl to a chair with an electric helmet in order to brainwash her.

There are some surgical scenes as well, but most of them consist of a hole in a sheet placed over the surgery area with a bunch of claps attached to the sheet (instead of the flesh) and then the skin painted red as if there was a wound.  A couple of scenes actually show some pig intestines sticking out of the sheet, but really it’s not terribly gruesome.  There is plenty of nudity throughout the film as the girls seem to enjoy walking around in the nude, and there is some (very) simulated sex as well, primarily consisting of bodies wriggling and contorting on the bed, on the couch, in the floor, etc.  Most of the women are not particularly good-looking and the “sex” is so fake, it’s not the least bit titillating.

The acting is terrible, the sets are made of paper and plastic, the score is awful.  In fact, the score consists of only about four musical cues—none of which are appropriate to any of the scenes—and are played over and over when Garrone remembers to put a score in at all. 

All-in-all, the film is terrible.  It would make a fantastic episode for MST3K, but it’s probably a bit too strong for that show.  If you enjoy films with a heaping helping of cheese and you aren’t too easily offended, this one might be a fun diversion—if for nothing else, just to laugh at the ineptitude.  But if you never see it, you won’t really be missing anything.

Recommended only for Eurotrash fans with a high toleration for bottom-of-the-barrel filmmaking.  I loved it!