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.
Love Camp 7
1969
Drama / Thriller / War
Plot summary
With the whole of Europe suffering under the thumb of the Nazis and England itself being under constant bombardment, the American commander, General Olson, and the British officer, Major Latham, have devised a bold scheme to mark a turn of the tide in the war. Now, with victory in their minds, the WAC Lieutenants, Linda Harman and Grace Freeman, have five short days to secure vital pieces of information from the doomed POW, Martha Grossman, and endure humiliation, torture, and degradation in the name of freedom. But before long, in vile Sergeant Klaus Müller's specialised camp, the two female inmates will realise that they live to serve one purpose only: to please the hungry-for-sex front-line officers of the Third Reich. Can the enslaved undercover agents fulfil their dangerous mission and escape from the infamous Love Camp 7 in one piece?
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The Boring Pioneer of a Boring Sub Genre
Even though they all look sensational, shocking and hugely controversial, "Nazi-Exploitation" moves generally are the most boring and irritatingly awful titles that fall under the cult-genre. There are some notable exceptions (like "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS" and "Salon Kitty"),but the vast majority is just boring rubbish with awesome looking VHS-covers. "Love Camp 7" was one of the first (maybe even THE first) Nazi-exploitation flicks ever made, and it already sucked badly, so it's only logical it spawned a whole series of terrible followers. The plot is very rudimentary and implausible, as you may expect. Two gorgeous looking (talking in terms of late 60's/early 70's standards) infiltrate in a Nazi Camp where random women are picked from the streets to serve as sex-toys for German military officers. So basically, these two girls are prepared to be humiliated, sexually harassed and maybe even tortured, exclusively to study and find out more about the perverted desires of soldiers of the Third Reich??? Quite unlikely to find volunteers for that type of assignment if you ask me, but hey this is exploitation cinema. There's an overload of full-frontal nudity in "Love Camp 7", but the actual sleaze and sex footage is understandably still rather tame. Nazi Exploitation gradually became more rancid and explicit, and by the time of SS Hell Camp (1977),the female cast members were even submitted to having sex with genetically engineered and super-hairy monsters. That certainly doesn't imply the later efforts in this sub genre are any less boring and inept, mind you. "Love Camp 7" hangs together by awfully written dialogs, lousy acting performances and totally intolerable characters. Enduring this film until the end credits role over the screen is some sort of torture on itself. Go straight for Dyanne Thorne's grotesque escapades in the aforementioned "Ilsa, She Wolf in the SS". Or better yet, avoid Nazi-Exploitation in general.
Don't Take This Movie Seriously
The violence and sexploitation are best taken as tongue-in-cheek. By enjoying the exploits of the two WAC officers, Maria Lease and Kathy Williams, the movie is quite entertaining. Both Lease and Williams could pass as Playboy Playmates. In one scene, as the girls are being introduced to the camp, Bruce Kimball is unable to control himself as his large hands roam all over Kathy ("Bubble-Butt") Williams' backside. Kimball then feasts on Lease. Both girls have no less than four scenes each were their wares are sampled - talk about copping a feel, these horny Nazis devour these two toothsome actresses!