I can probably think of more things that I dislike about "SS Experiment Love Camp" than I actually like about the thing, but I'm not going to sit here and lie to you by telling you that the movie is boring. True, it isn't the most thoroughly entertaining nazisploitation flick out of the bunch, but during the last part of the movie, oddly enough, I couldn't look away from the thing. I would still just assume recommend "SS Hell Camp" or "Gestapo's Last Orgy" over this movie any day, but lets be honest. The movie isn't that much below those other movies. Not enough to where I could give the thing a negative review. I gave a positive review to "SS Hell Camp," so the least I could do is give this one a nudge and a wink.

There's nothing new going on in this movie. As far as shocks and debauchery go, I wasn't surprised by anything that happened here. I've said before that if as long as a nazisploitation movie isn't boring, then I'll give it a pass. Negatively, I could go on and on about how much the dubbing in this movie bites. It's god awful and distracting, and it isn't so much that the actors who are doing the dubbing are bad, it's just that they are so completely out of place that I was actually left feeling confused in a movie called..."SS Experiment Love Camp." Here's what's so confusing about the dubbing. We are watching a group of German soldiers, only the dubbed voices are clearly American actors with American accents. It even goes so far as to let someone with a Brooklyn accent ?o one of the dubbed voices. Am I really watching German soldiers dubbed by American war movie character cliches? Apparently I am.

But why the hell would I give a negative review to this movie based on a technical merritt that actually makes it a little humorous? I'm not going to nitpick "SS Experiment Love Camp." Especially when it's title, which sounds misleading, actually isn't! The movie is set at a female POW camp, where the women are mainly used in sex experiments. Now you're probably thinking that these experiements are something like "lets sew a cow penis on this woman and see if we can milk her." Not quite. The German soldiers are called in to help with the experiments, which are basically just..."watch them have sex together." A couple is even put in water, where the doctors, yes, watch them have sex. One of the German soldiers ends up falling in love with his experiment buddy, and there you have your conflict. So, you've got your Love Camp, you've got the Experiments, and of course you've got the SS. You've also got a hilariously bad sequence where a woman is frozen in water in about 30 seconds.

While all of the love making shenanigans are going on, a Jewish surgeon is called upon to help the nazis in ovary transplants being done on some of the women. Each one keeps failing miserably. The surgical scenes are part of what I like about the movie, and if you like these, then you'll be glad, because there's a lot of them. They honestly don't look too terribly fake, which means that you see a lot of cutting, a lot of snipping, a lot of organs, but with the right amount of bloodshed to make it believable. There aren't squirting hoses of blood coming out of the bodies. Once these experiments fail, the bodies are hauled away to the furnace where they are set on fire. Now these scenes...not so realistic. You got the naked bodies lying there, while superimposed flames are shown over them. The bodies also start doing these weird spastic twitching movements which look like they would be more in place in a Billy Blanks video.

Then again, I do like the set design of the film. This is a dark, dark, dark looking movie. When the bodies are taken down the hallway to be burned, this makes the furnace room in "Elm Street" look like a leftover set from "Toys." The movie looks like hell, completely. This is most certainly not filmed on the sets of "Hogan's Heroes." It's hard to think of a scene that doesn't have a blistering black background, with the exposure turned down so low that you think the same camera techniques were being used on the director's private snuff film. Walls are stained, blood covers the sheets, and the uniforms are so dirty, that I cannot tell the difference between the prisoner's uniforms and the female guards. Good thing the guards are butch and carry around night sticks so that they stand out.

I also like the mad female scientist of the film. You know, The Ilsa. This part is played by Patrizia Melega. This actress is not good looking like a Dyanne Thorne, nor is she prissy looking like a lot of Ilsa-knock of characters. This character looks like she actually would be front and center torturing POW's. Melega plays the part with a stone cold icy stare, complete with big evil eyes, which often times are staring right into the camera. She is not a cartoonish villain that laughs maniacally every second, but she looks like a pure sadist. If not as a heartless SS doctor, I could actually picture Melega playing the role of a serial killer and having it be scary as hell. Some complain that she isn't good looking enough to play this character. I think it's one of the reasosn why this movie barely works. Come to think of it, none of the characters in this film are glamorously good looking. Then again, why would they be?

And then of course there is the last act of the movie. Helmut, the officer who falls in love with the prisoner, takes his problems to his superior. By the way, I think this is the first time I've seen an SS officer in a nazisploitation film actually look Aryan. Anyway, the superior tells Helmut that he'll let him stay on guard at the camp, as long as he agrees to join him in a surgical experiment. Helmut gladly agrees. Now, I do realize that Helmut is glad he can stay at the camp, but...I don't care who you are or what you believe in, but you really should ask the Nazi's what they want to do to you in this surgical experiment. Helmut doesn't do so, and wakes up later missing a couple of things that he previously was equipped with. Turns out, the superior had his own testicles bitten off by a prostitute, and was having trouble finding a donor. This causes Helmut to go ballistic, grab a machine gun, and plow through all of the officers in sight. And it sets up for the movie's greatest line: "How ya doing with my balls?"

You know...that's what it comes down to. That set up, that predicament, and that line. Now that's just entertaining as hell. And yet, so awful. For Helmut, atleast. I'm not going to stop anyone from watching this movie. It's entertaining enough to merritt a viewing, but it certainly won't be the most shocking or the most memorable of the genre. Kind of one of those "if you've seen the others, then see this" sort of movies.

On a personal note, after my site shut down, I sort of took a break from writing all together, so I haven't actually written a movie review since September of last year. What better way to come back than with..."SS Experiment Love Camp"??

Recommended: Yes