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“All this happiness is frightening.” If Don
Edmonds' Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS is the poster girl for
Naziploitation, then Sergio Garrone's SS Experiment Camp (aka Captive
Women II: Orgies of the Damned) is the poster boy, literally, one could
argue. At the beginning of the 1980s, the United Kingdom was wrapped up in a
moral panic: the notorious 'Video Nasties' era, which was spurned on by the
grisly, shocking, and altogether lurid cover art that adorned the shelves of
countless video rental shops. Self-appointed 'Moral Campaigners' – from crusty
old busy bodies who saw no point in actually viewing the material they so
vehemently opposed, to the entire political establishment – marched about in a
blue rinse fury, which the majority of newspapers were only too willing to
embolden. Splashed across front pages and evening news reports was the graphic
box art of various exploitation flicks – including that of Garrone's decidedly
trashy slice of grindhouse grot, which was banned in the UK from 1976 until
2005. If you're easily offended, then why on earth are you reading about a
movie like this? However, if you're not consumed by a perpetual tide of
offence-taking, and recognise that a movie is just a movie, then strap in for
something nasty...
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