Love Camp 7

This literally is just an excuse for simulating the rape of women by fat ugly hairy unattractive, trousered male cast members. That's it, plus unsimulated whipping. The 'plot' hardly needs dignifying by anyone looking it up here. As it unfolds between literal carboard backdrops for 'mise en scene' before they can get back to the business at hand, via ungainly and vertiginously leering camerawork. If that's you're bag then go for it. Just know that you are a sick pervert. The one 'video nasty' that truly deserves it's UK ban to this day. I really hope every fat, slobby, slavering basturd that was involved in the making of this protozoaic sludge died the most agonising, undignified, lonely, prolonged death possible.

I'm a 32 year old woman, got hooked on these a few years ago. This was one of the last i have seen. This is one of the better Nazi exploitations. Too much story though. Not into Lesbo, not into whipping, or the fat officers. Like the good Nazi officer. He can use his tongue rather well. The movie has too much talking. We know what we are watching. Let's just get to it. Let's get to the leather already. The blond officer at the end whose face you never see, love to find out who that is. Looks like Mike Masters but you can't tell that. Didn't like killing of good German or the blond officer's death either.

Love Camp 7, directed by Lee Frost, is an important film, as it began a sub-genre of exploitation cinema, suitably called Nazisploitation. Essentially, Frost gave birth to a much maligned sub-genre, with a good few of the films being persecuted in the UK and dubbed video nasties, this one included. These films generally contain copious amounts of * women getting abused by Nazis, this one, however, is about a 'Love Camp' in which women are forced to please soldiers. Two young officers agree to go undercover to get information from a scientist being held in the camp, but alas things go wrong and the women are forced to endure indignities. Apparently this is based on a true story, but the film is so unrealistic and stupid you would have to be a fool to think this film is based on truth. Quite frankly, this film is incredibly boring, and the 90 minute run time feels like 3 hours by the end. There is a wraparound plot where some guy in London is telling the story to another guy, it just meant that production values could be lower because the story could just be narrated rather than shown. Considering the film's reputation, there is very little blood or gore, and maybe a couple of scenes of torture e.g. girls holding buckets over their heads, the standard whipping, the 'seat of honour', but it all just seems like softcore * than horror cinema. Even then, the film is not that graphic, and despite the fact the BBFC think the point of the film is for males to be aroused by the events taking place, it is the most unerotic film one could see. The film scores points for Bob Cresse, who plays the cruel Commandant with relish, it is obvious he loved his role. Also, the final shootout is kinda cool, it also meant the movie ended which was a relief. 1/5

LOVE CAMP 7 has gone down in the annals of Z-grade exploitation cinema for precisely two reasons. First, it's the first film in the exploitative 'Nazisploitation' sub-genre of films, typically featuring captives being experimented upon and variously humiliated, tortured and killed by participants of Hitler's cruel regime. Second, it was banned outright in the UK back in the 1980s, linking it with the infamous 'video nasties' scandal. Seen today, it's a pure skin flick with very little in it to actually offend, although it is tasteless. It plays out more as a prison film than a Nazi movie, and it has little of the depravity that the sub-genre would become known for in the 1970s with the likes of the ILSA franchise or the Italian versions of the story. Essentially this is an excuse for wall-to-wall nudity and sex scenes, with the bare bones of a plot about a couple of spies in the camp. The only good scene is the violent climax; the rest is oh-so-dull.

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.

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

Love Camp 7 (1969) ** (out of 4) Maria Lease and Kathy Williams play women who agree to be sent to a Nazi concentration camp to get some information on a scientist doing experiments there. It doesn't take long for the women (and others) to sees the horrors that are going on at the camp. LOVE CAMP 7 is a rather historic film because it took the women-in-prison genre and took it a step further. This here was the first film to throw in the Nazi side of things and the result would end up leading to the creation of Naziploitation, which would take over drive-in screens for the next decade. A lot of people call this film boring and they call it tame. This might be true but at the same time people need to remember that this here was the first film and everything that followed had a bar that they knew they had to surpass. For the most part I didn't find this film as awful as some have. I actually thought for the most part it was well-made and it at least looked like a real motion picture unlike so many of the films that were to follow. The film really doesn't have much of a plot but this is exploitation we're talking about so the only "plot" needed is to just get us to the next bit of nudity. Speaking of nudity, there are plenty of women undressed here and that's the whole selling point of the picture. The majority of the 96-minute running time has women standing around their cell naked or being sexually assaulted by the guards. The women are basically sex slaves so there are countless scenes of the woman being forced to have sex. The camera knows what to focus on and this is certainly clear during a scene where the women are forced to stand in a circle and hold up buckets. The camera is in the middle of this circle and basically just goes around capturing all of the breasts. LOVE CAMP 7 isn't a masterpiece but it does deserve credit for being the first of its type and it did get the subgenre off the ground.

Unaware that she possesses extremely valuable information, the SS arrests the secretary of a recently deceased Nazi scientist and sends her to a concentration camp simply because she is Jewish. Derisively referred to as "Love Camp 7" this particular prison exists solely for the sexual gratification of the officers and soldiers of the Third Reich. Additionally, because they are regarded as "inferior humans" the female prisoners are routinely raped and tortured in the process. Meanwhile, after being informed of the important knowledge this secretary has the Supreme Allied Command in London decides to send in two female American soldiers to assist her in escaping. Naturally, before they are sent both "Lt. Linda Harmon" (Maria Lease) and "Lt. Grace Freeman" (Kathy Williams) are fully briefed on the treatment they will have to endure. Unfortunately, after being subsequently arrested and taken to the prison they discover that their target has been moved to another area of the camp reserved for even harsher punishment. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that, although it was one of the very first "Naziploitation" films every produced, it really wasn't a very good movie. As a matter of fact, it was plain awful. Not only did the sex scenes lack eroticism but they lasted much too long and were extremely repetitive as well. Further, the acting was substandard, the character development practically nonexistent and other than possibly Kathy Williams (the taller of the two female soldiers) none of the actresses were all that attractive. In short, this movie was pretty bad and I doubt anybody-other than die-hard fans of this particular sub-genre-will care much for it. I have rated it accordingly.

It's hard to know whether it's a * movie or a sadistic film pretending to not be a porno. Whatever the case, it's got itself banned in the UK. Which I would say was unnecessary, it was poorly made and acted but doesn't mean it's any worse than a red-blooded male can buy down at the * shop these days. From a female perspective, the plot was lacking, the acting was s***, the cinematography was forgotten as was choreography and realism a joke. I saw "The Downfall" the same day I saw this, and to compare, Love Camp 7 makes you roll your eyes about the Nazis whereas "The Downfall" makes you a little empathetic. Certainally, Love Camp 7 doesn't make you hate them, as it's so over-the-top it's kidding itself. I found the physical contact between the characters downright boring, and you just know what they're doing is fake and unrealistic and a put-on to avoid getting banned, as nobody gets their pants off. In conclusion, some women get attacked, some director had his wet dream come true, and nobody learned anything about Nazi Germany. Mission accomplished?

I'm not nearly as good at keeping track of the history of exploitation and horror films as I am at watching them and giving my two-bit opinions on. But given my semi- knowledgeable knowledge of such things-I'm not aware of a full-length Nazisploit film that pre-dates LOVE CAMP 7. I know there were a few earlier shorts and loops that made reference to Nazi-ism in terms of exploit/sexploit films-but as far as I know-this was the first to make a feature-length film out of the concept... The premise of LOVE CAMP 7 is told as a flashback from a retired WWII vet, who tells the story of two brave young American female soldiers who volunteer to go behind enemy lines in order to meet up and extract information from a German/Jewish sympathizer regarding a top-secret airplane project, who is being held captive at the notorious 'love camp'. The sole purpose of said camp, is to provide Jewish women who will serve as love-slaves for the German soldiers. Once in the camp-the two female American soldiers witness firsthand the brutality of the Germans-but are firmly resolved in carrying out their mission... First off-LOVE CAMP 7 is not a great film by any means. By far-the only notable performance in the entire film is by Bob Cresse (who also wrote the film) as the brutal Commandant of the camp. He obviously had 'fun' with his role and it shows in his performance. The rest of the film is made up of rather lackluster actors/actresses-and even though the film sports plenty of tits-and-ass from the mostly attractive female cast- the 90 or so minute runtime starts to feel more like 4 hours around the 3/4 mark of the film. Regardless-I still give LOVE CAMP 7 relatively high marks for being one of, if not THE originator of an entire sub-genre of sleaze films-which other than a few notable entries- weren't much better-and were oftentimes far worse than this precursor entry. Maybe not too shocking given today's standards-but I can imagine this one turned some heads back in '69. 7/10