A Bring Out the GIMP (Girls in Merciless Peril) Movie Review


SS Experiment Love Camp

Reviewed by YikYakker


SS Hell Pack Triple Feature contains three lesser-known movies in the Nazi camp genre: SS Experiment Love Camp, SS Girls and SS Hell Camp 5 - Women's Hell. All three are Italian-made, two from director Sergio Garrone and one from the much-reviled Bruno Mattei. None of these measure up to Ilsa but they do have some notable GIMP scenes. I'll review each of them in separate postings.

SS Experiment Love Camp

This one starts out with a bang, or I should say, a jolt. A naked female prisoner is strapped to an electric chair, complete with metal helmet and coiled wires. Unwilling to take an oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer, she is electrocuted and screams loudly. Tears run down her sweaty face, blood appears on her fingers where they are affixed to the chair, but she refuses to take the pledge a second time, so she gets another zap. And another. At this point, she is barely conscious, so they inject her breast with something to make her pass out completely. Then her limp nude body is taken away on a gurney to be incinerated. The incineration scene is rather strange - there are other naked, unconscious victims piled up, and when the flames are turned on (images of fire, actually, superimposed on the pile of nude women), they react by making stiff, jerky movements. WTF? Must be a side effect of the drug.

A second prisoner, who has witnessed the electro scene, is next in the chair. At first she won't recite the oath. So they literally shock the piss out of her - a stream of urine emerges from below the chair. Then she complies and the opening credits roll. Pretty good electro scenes, with good acting and nice, realistic elements. The women are not stunners but are acceptably attractive and have well-sized, natural tits. This scene was posted to YouTied a while back. But I thought the incinerator part was rather bizarre and distracting.

After the credits a truck arrives in camp and about a dozen reasonably but not unrealistically attractive prisoners disembark and head for the mandatory showers. Nice views of naked wet flesh. Still unclothed, the women report to a laboratory to be tested. Their purpose is to have sex with German soldiers under unusual experimental conditions, such as immersed in a hot/cold water tank or hopped up on drugs. Lucky ladies.

After a lot of plot development comes a scene in which one girl "refuses to collaborate". So when the others have left the lab, a sadistic officer and a female prisoner/matron dump her naked in the water tank where she's tied AOH to the ceiling while they turn the heat on. After she "stews" a bit, they quickly take it down to frigid and we watch her slowly become frost-covered and then turn into a popsicle. Barely alive, she gets the injection-incineration treatment. An interesting scene but they could have tied her wrists tighter.

Later, at an orgy staged for the officers, a cute, baby-faced girl with big blue eyes, who is reluctant to participate, gets slapped around by the sadistic officer. Later, she wakes up naked underneath the drunken, passed-out officer and finds that her vagina is bleeding, apparently from some pretty rough sex (not shown) or perhaps because she was a virgin. Distraught, she grabs a fork and stabs the officer several times. As she flees naked, she takes some machine-gun fire and falls. Here, it's not exactly clear where and how badly she has been wounded, which I think detracts a bit from what happens next. As an example to others, she is hung upside down with her feet attached by rope to the top of a wooden pole. Unfortunately, the scene is at night and is bit darkened. But the camera slowly pans down the girl's body and we see trickles of blood running down the length of her body until her arms drop toward the ground and she expires. She is the most attractive of the prisoners, and I would like to have seen her captured and tormented a while instead of being dispatched so quickly.

Later a few clothed women are brought into the lab to be strapped into a chair and have their eardrums blasted with pressurized air. Refusal is met with death, but so is co-operation. It's a rather pointless, grisly scene with no erotic content.

As a movie, SS Experiment contains a lot more plot and character development than one usually finds in this genre. There is a romance between a prisoner and a soldier, and a very detailed transplant scene involving what I think is a supposed to be a prostate (I had a tough time watching this). The acting is decent but marred by mediocre dubbing. The film-makers paid a great deal of attention to details, from flies buzzing around to unshaven armpits on the prisoners (hey, they don't issue razor blades in prison camps). But the women are naturally attractive - no pumped-up tits, bald beavers, tattoos or piercings in sight. I give the movie a C.

GIMP-wise, the offerings are few. I would like to have seen more GIMP action and less story. The incineration scenes did nothing for me. But the electro-torture scene is well-done. Nothing else in the movie comes close to the impact of the "shocking" opener. My GIMP grade is a C+.


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