Nazisploitation films are most likely the sleaziest subgenre of film ever put onto this earth. With that being said, there is a level of expectation that comes with the viewing of films that belong in this category. It's like each film has to equal the disturbance of the previous, or try to surpass it in some way shape or form.

"Salon Kitty" for instance had the sleaze down to a T and it was also an entertaining movie to watch. Who doesn't want to see Helmut Berger watch a hump back midget have sex with a beautiful woman? There's also the inevitable "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS," a movie surrounded in controversy and has a reputation as being one of the most graphic films ever made. It isn't, but it has that reputation. Throw "Gestapo's Last Orgy" in there and you have yourself a nice little box set.

Sadly a movie like "Elsa, Fraulein SS" may get thrown in there too, which is a shame. What happens when a nazisploitation film gets their nuts cut off at the base of the sack? I'll tell you what happens, "Elsa, Fraulein SS" is what happens.

Just from that title, and even the description on the back of the box, you expect this to be a third rate "Ilsa," but the movie is more so a third rate "Salon Kitty," and even more so, it's a third rate pile of dog crap.

"Elsa" doesn't hold a candle to any of the films previously mentioned. Not that those other films are classics in themselves, but they were always aware at the task at hand, which was getting as close as they can to porn without crossing the line, and being as sleazy as all humanly possible. For the most part they succeeded. "Elsa" though is not even a heavy R.

I can not think off the top of my head of a single graphic moment in the film worth remembering. Was there any graphic moments in the film? Damn, I'm baffled. I don't think there were. There's some sex in it, but I've seen better in any Cinemax flick with the words "obsession" or "private" in the title.

Malisa Longo plays the title character of Elsa. She runs a brothel of German officers who are onboard a train and just pick up randon nazis looking for fun and if they say anything resembling treason, they are taken care of. No, they aren't castrated or tortured or mutilated. What happens to them is I suppose what this movie considers to be shocking...they are simply shot in the head. Gasp!

Shriek Show released the DVD in February and the box claims that Elsa makes Ilsa look like a little puppy. It's the other way around, my friend. Ilsa was a character who castrated men if they did not sexually please her, and she also tortured various women medically to prove the domination of the female gender. Elsa...well, she yells at a lot of people and shoots some guys. She has a sex scene or two, but come on. Ilsa urinated on a guy so he could get aroused. Who's the puppy here?

What really confuses me is why Shriek Show decided to chose this as their nazisploitation movie to release. It doesn't make sense for them to have done that when such titles as "Love Camp 7" or "The Damned" or even "Salon Kitty" have not yet been released on DVD. Surely this wasn't the only film of the genre that they could have attained the right to. If it was then that is truly sad, but it is even more sad if it wasn't. It shows Shriek Show is on a sick day every bit as this pathetic excuse for controversy.

Yes, this is a bad film, and you know what, so was "Gestapo's Last Orgy" and I'm making this here comparison to show that atleast "Gestapo's Last Orgy" (which can be found under the title of "Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler") didn't insult its target audience. Atleast it knew in some form of what they wanted to see in a film of that calibur.

I don't know if any of the people who brought us these films are necessarily proud of their work, because they are pretty offensive, and that makes them the controversial films that they are. I mean they're soft core pornography set in the nazi Germany for god's sake. They are the leaders in sleaze, and sleaze can be and is entertaining. "Elsa, Fraulein SS" is a failure. It's a failure at sleaze, simple story, and the seemingly easy task of knowing what the hell the audience wants to see when they watch a nazisploitation film.

Not only that but the character of Elsa is such a snot and an annoyance, due in part to her thinking that what she is doing is as interesting as Ilsa. She's a copycat wannabe. Anyway, my point is, we want some sort of climax that brings an end to this cimema travesty. Ilsa had her head blown off by a single bullet, and when she was the Wicked Warden, she was...eaten, but leave Elsa to disappoint us once more. There is no ending. No ending and no climax. I don't mean that like "Dr. Gore" had no ending, but this film must've thought it was so damn special that it deserved sequel rights. There's nothing worse that a piece of crap with no payoff.

Maybe Elsa was just left wandering through the woods wondering what her purpose in life was, because you know what, I don't see any purpose whatsoever. There's no reason for Elsa to exist. She's a product with no value and she's doomed to keep repeating that fate of information forever. Now if they had said that, that would have of course made for an interesting conclusion, because atleast the filmmakers would have been honest with themselves.

Recommended: No

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