Le Camp spécial N° 7

The Frost/Cresse team are responsible for loads of depraved and memorable exploitation epics like "Scavengers" and "House On Bare Mountain" (w/Cresse in drag!). "Love Camp 7" was the forerunner for the more nasty 70's nazisploitationers like "Ilsa" and the more vile Italian rip offs ("Nazi Love Camp 27" etc.). It's tamer than those but Bob Cresse's gleefully, almost tongue-in-cheek, portrait of a nazi camp commandant is worth the price alone of the video. Oscar material!! The massive amount of nudity, rape and torture should satisfy even the most jaded thrillseeker + it's a historical important movie, sleazewise. John Alderman ("Erotic Adventures Of Zorro") and trash film mogul David F. Friedman ("Bloodfeast" etc.) are also in the cast. After "LC7" was a hit in Canada, Friedman backed the infamous "Ilsa" movie.

Frost went on makin' films like the bizarre and extremely un-PC "Black Gestapo". Cresse sadly died in '98 after years of illness caused by being shot by two undercover cops! Somebody should write a book on him.

Famous for being the very first in the wave of sleazy "Nasty Nazi" movies, predating the Canadian "Isla" and the notorious Italian "Death Camp" movies. 2 young WAC officers go undercover as POW's in a prison camp hoping to get some information from a scientist that's being held there, before being sprung by the french resistance. Unfortunately things go wrong with the break out and they end up overstaying their welcome, They are then subjected to the same indignities as the other inmates. A few nasty scenes appear in this movie but by today's standards these could be cut by the BBFC and passed for release.

I only watched this because I'm going down the list of British Video Nasties, and I can see why it's never been certified: endless bouts of naked women writhing under men who don't even take their pants off, and scenes of "medical" exams where they're prodded and poked you-know-where, and an extended one of bull-whipping of one who refuses to "cooperate". For impotent sadists only

Two hawt allied spies go undercover in a Nazi love camp, (where women are there "to please the officers of The Third Reich") in order to bust out a spy. Or something. All the nudity distracted me. Anyway, they soon come to the attention of the camp's camp evil warden, who likes nothing better than having prisoners lick his jackboots, when he isn't thinking up tortures for chuckles. Mucho nekkidness and sleaze ensues before the tables are finally turned on the rotten Nazi swine blah-de-blah.

I really only wanted to see Love Camp 7 because it was one of the original video nasties, and I wanted to see it purely for the sake of it. Now that I have... It's pretty meh.

Being a Lee Frost (who gave us A Climax Of Blue Power and The Black Gestapo, which were also pretty well made) film, it's typically well made, although the acting is pretty dire. Although tame compared to say, The Gestapos Last Orgy or Ilsa, it was probably eyebrow raising enough back in its day, as it's no wimp for its time.

Overall though, it's just standard, nothing special sleaze, and worth a look solely for those wishing to view all the films on the video nasty list.

Made in 1969, this is reputedly the first of the Nazi exploitation films but whether that should be looked upon as something to boast about is a moot point. On the one hand the credits say that all the Nazi equipment and regalia was hired out from experts but on the other hand the production leaves a lot to be desired.

Two British female soldiers are sent into a Nazi POW camp where all the inmates are all chosen for their womanly charms in order to please the high-ranking German officers who go there for their off-duty amusement. Surely German generals would take their amusements in palatial chateaux, not in some filthy prison cells as shown in this film. Perhaps so much of the budget was spent on the boys toys that there was none left for decent locations. The acting leaves a lot to be desired as well - the camp commandant, played by the film's director gives a hammy performance, to say the least.

It seems that no-one in this production knew how to film sex scenes. Any excuse was used to get the women naked but there is nothing erotic or titillating in this film. The sex scenes were filmed in the aforementioned filthy cells where the sex was nothing more than the men groping the women to the sound of guttural groans and moans. They did not even bother to take their trousers off.

This may have been the start of the Nazi exploitation genre but this one is surely notorious for all the wrong reasons. Exploitation films are OK in my book but not this one.