|
It's not just the bizarre screenplay and incoherent direction that make Bruno Mattei's SS Girls (1977) the unloved stepsister in the SS Hell Pack Triple Feature. Consider the premise: Our beloved Fuhrer suspects that high-ranking military officials are becoming disloyal to the cause. He commissions officer Shellenberg to recruit prostitutes, set up a bordello in an empty mansion, and provide recreation time for the suspected traitors. The girls then loosen them up with sex and booze and report any traitorous comments they make when their inhibitions are dropped. Except for a few battle scenes, everything takes place in the mansion. That means no camp, no prison, no dungeon, no interrogation of women, no torture...no GIMP!
Yes, the movie has plenty of nudity. It has a few quick "whipping scenes" (more like playful preludes to sex, with no restraints) that you'll miss if you blink. One girl is briefly shown horizontally suspended from several rope loops during her "training". But there's no Merciless Peril...some of this stuff is downright goofy.
It's obvious that Mattei didn't know what he wanted to convey here, so he tried everything. Maybe he was on crack.
To add injury to insult, it seems like a scene was deleted, right at the point where Shellenberg is about to celebrate his success with a MFF threesome. My research at IMDB suggests that there may be two minutes missing.
Bottom line is that GIMPers (and others) should not waste any time or money on this mess. I'd like to give it an F, but that would imply that it's worse than Blitzkrieg, or as bad as Plan Nine from Outer Space, which it's not. So I'll give it a D-.
|