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Ilsa, the Wicked Warden is not a real "Ilsa" movie at all. In fact, Dyanne Thorne's character isn't even named Ilsa in the film; she plays a character named Greta. The film is alternately named, among other titles, as Greta the Torturer, Greta, the Mad Butcher and Greta, the Sadist. Just to add to the confusion, the IMDB officially lists the film as Wanda, the Wicked Warden, which really makes no sense since there's nobody in the film named Wanda at all.
It was given the "Ilsa" moniker, obviously, to take advantage of the popularity of the Ilsa series, which began with the classic Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS. The fact that Dyanne Thorne plays a similar type sadistic lady character in this one just made it convenient for the powers that be to re-title this film and group it with the other 3 Ilsa films.
Anyway, is it any good? I think so. It's a typical Jess Franco film, in which we see various scenes of torture to mostly naked women. One scene I liked wasn't an actual bondage scene, but I thought it was pretty cool. In it, a naked Thorne tells an equally naked Lina Romay to lay perfectly still on a bed, then she takes pins and slowly pushes them, one by one, into Lina's breasts and works her way down her body. Lina grits her teeth but does not scream throughout the ordeal. Then Thorne suddenly forces her body down on top of Lina's, forcing the pins in much deeper! Yowch!
There's also a scene where Thorne, in order to cool down her a lady prisoner's sexual desires, does what any sadistic warden would do, and that's by injecting a vile of acid into the bound woman's pussy! Even though the action is implied, we see a curl of smoke coming from the unfortunate woman's nether regions, so you know she did the deed. As if that wasn't cruel enough, she follows that up by taping bare wires to the woman's temples and administering a dose of electric shock, so badly that the victim foams at the mouth.
There's also a nice, if too brief, whipping scene to another prisoner (naked of course) and finally another electric shock scene to a yet another nude woman that's tied to the bed. And naturally, Dyanne Thorne plays a great lady villain, and she has that role down pat, since she had 3 other showcases playing basically the exact same character to practice on. No one watches a Franco film expecting a good movie, but for pervs and sick fucks who enjoy women being tortured (you all know who you are), it does deliver on that level, and that's the only thing that matters.
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