2/5 Two Stars For The Pubes
  by Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines)
When I was a kid, my parents sent me to a diabetic summer camp, and I usually tend to think of that as a kind of SS Hell Camp. Naturally I saw the film, SS Hell Camp, because I'm one of those weirdos who tends to like cheap, cruddy films that exploit one of the darkest(if not the darkest) moments in world history simply for violent thrills and sleazery.
But after viewing SS Hell Camp I realized that the diabetic summer camp wasn't so bad, and that I would have rather spent an hour and a half there again instead of watching this movie. As you can guess, it takes it's inspiration from Ilsa-She Wolf of the SS. A loony Nazi scientist chick is torturing women in the name of medical science. She's created some kind of terminally horny, hairy dude she keeps in a cage, and every now and again she throws an unfortunate victim in with him. He proceeds to savagely do his business until the woman expires. These scenes become rather long and boring, believe it or not. It only seemed to pep up a bit when the horny beast-man decides to eat the pubic hair of one of the girls. But it is rather sad when a scene like that is the highlight of the film. The rest of the movie is devoted to some partisans who are plotting to bring the evil doctor chick down.
Mother Mary and Joseph, is this boring!
I gotta tell ya, a flick like this shouldn't be boring, there's no excuse. So I gotta say, SS Hell Camp is one to avoid. You're better off giving Ilsa another go.

4/5 sick as hell
  by Linda Juarbe
not much to say except buy this dvd. i bought it twice because the first time i bought it i gave it away cause i didnt like it to much. i missed it and bought it again. of the handful of nazi exploitation films i've seen this is the best and the only one that really deserves to be banned. not much of a plot. just an excuse to show sex and violence. very depraved and graphic. women are butally raped by a retarded mongloid, one has her clitoris ripped off and eaten in close up, women are tortured in numerous grisly ways including electrodes clamped to there private parts and fingernails pulled off. these scenes are unflinching and very graphic. tons of female nudity and alot of male nudity as well. i have heard from a few that this dvd is cut. if it is then i dont know what could have been cut because all the scenes go on and on. the rapes last for like ten minutes each. very low budget and unintentially hilarious, cheesy and stupid. if not for the films low budget charm the scenes of torture and rape would be very shocking. they are shocking but the impact is slightly softened by poor acting and direction. still a fun film. not for the easily offended or people who dont like b movies.

1/5 Complete waste of time. No way the budget was over two grand.
  by Darsh
Rape has never been so boring. The box boasts "makes ILSA THE SHE WOLF look like DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN!". That is complete walrus[...] and somebody needs their erect [...] slammed in a car door for even saying some [...] like that. F this [...] movie. I'm not even going to describe what happens (mad scientist b[...] creates a rape monster) cause it's [...] boring. Ilsa would [...] in this movie's [...]hole.

2/5 Banned in the U.K.
  by Steven Hellerstedt
And censorship is sometimes the best thing that can happen to a movie. Case in point SS HELL CAMP, a `video nasty' that contained scenes of such perversity it moved a nation to impose sanctions to protect its citizens from its baleful influence. And that's just the stuff that'll get chumps like me to line up around the block to take a gander.

Well, peek away, and try your best to stay awake. The Germans are occupying a town, a band of partisans are blowing up bridges, and the bad guys are rounding up the wimmen folk for interrogation purposes. The chief Nazi doctor on-site is a gorgeous brunette with a dominating air and a caged, half-human, sex maniac in the cellar. To make them talk, the women are either sadistically - and graphically - tortured (a bad thing,) or they're thrown naked in the cage with the neanderthal Casanova (a very bad thing.)

More than half this movie, the half that's spent with the intrepid band of partisans in the field, is impossibly boring and can't be watched without mashing the fast-forward button. The acting is atrocious and the scenes in the field run on forever. Besides, the whole point of the movie is to linger over the shoulder of the beautiful and twisted Nazi doctor.

I'm sorry, this movie is supposed to shock and disgust, but it is done so poorly it's impossible to take it even half-seriously. Its worse scene involves a number of women undergoing a number of tortures. One woman, strapped to a table, is supposed to have been cut open, her entrails exposed and gnawed on by rats. Supposed to have been, but the stage blood was gruel thin, you could see her intact stomach underneath it, and the red sawdust on top failed to convince as innards. Plus, the `rats' on her stomach were a couple of overweight guinea pigs, who scampered away as quick as their pudgy little legs could take them. I gave this movie two stars for the unintentional laughs it provided. SS HELL CAMP is a nasty little exploitation movie, although I'd call it silly rather than shocking, and pretty poorly made.


1/5 Difficult to imagine how this could have been any worse.
  by Bill Lee (Florida)
Let me preface this by saying that I bought this film fully aware of the fact that it would be a horrible exercise in exploitation. I harbored no illusions that led me to believe that I was possibly buying a forgotten Bergman masterpiece or a classic John Ford western. I enjoy a good bad movie every now and then, so I figured that this had to be one of the best of the worst. Well, I was half right.

To refer to "SS Hell Camp" as "a" movie is somewhat misleading. In actuality, "SS Hell Camp" is two different movies that happen to be on the same DVD and through an accident of editing, have become inexplicably intertwined in one package. One movie is about a group of Italian partisan rebels in the German-occupied Republic of Salo in the last days of World War II. They sabotage German railroad shipments and work to actively resist the Waffen SS and Wehrmacht detachments in the area. The other movie is about a sadistic bisexual nymphomaniac named Dr. Ellen Kratsch who runs a sexual torture dungeon under the guise of "science." Experiments include the genetic engineering of a bestial naked Italian man with a unibrow who violently has his way with captured females. With a name like "SS Hell Camp," which of these two movies do you want to see?

Either way, it's more of the former than the latter, and is therefore quite slow-moving and only occasionally funny. (My definition of "funny" being "unintentionally hilarious.") There's nothing particularly 'graphic' here other than female nudity and fake blood (neither of which is done very well). The highlight of this movie is a scene in which the country priest remarks "put your trust in the Lord: he's the best!" For a movie that bills itself as being unspeakably evil and extreme, that's not a very good sign. In a movie as bad as this one, it's difficult to know who to root for. The acting is so bad among the partisans that I frequently found myself hoping that Dr. Kratsch would capture them and kill them and then a stray bomb would destroy the dungeon, killing Dr. Kratsch and her underlings. That way, everyone would be wiped out. Even still, I'm not sure I'd have gotten any satisfaction from this movie beyond the feeling of finality that comes with knowing everyone is dead.

If you're looking for a good non-prescription sleep aid, this movie will do wonders for you. If, on the other hand, you're looking for something that's so-bad-it's-good owing to its tastelessness, violence, and sexual perversion, you're out of luck here.