- Year
- 1975
- Country
- USA · Canada
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Director
- Don Edmonds
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (20/100)
- Also known as
- Ilsa la louve des SS
- Banned in
- Australia · Norway · West Germany · UK
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
Refused classification in Australia, banned in Norway and West Germany, and rejected by the BBFC.
Shot on the leftover Hogan's Heroes set. Nothing here is defensible; it's catalogued, not recommended.
The most notorious entry in the cycle, and its production history tells you everything. It was shot in nine days on the standing set of the sitcom Hogan's Heroes, immediately after that show was cancelled, and Dyanne Thorne plays a camp commandant conducting sadistic experiments before the inevitable revolt.
It is crude, cruel exploitation using the ultimate taboo setting as a backdrop for sex and torture, and it spawned three sequels as Ilsa relocated to a harem and a prison. It is catalogued here as industrial history, not entertainment.
Genuinely tasteless, and studied more than it is enjoyed.
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Written about
- Banned, cut and confiscated
A Fulci print flown out of the country, an Australian rating that just means no, and a German court that filed The Evil Dead under criminal violence. Three states, three machines for making a film disappear.
- The video nasty panic
A drill on a video sleeve, a prosecutors' hit list of seventy-two films, and a censorship law that was void for twenty-five years on a filing error.
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