Love Camp 7 (1969)

User Rating:

2.5/10   

Director:

Lee Frost

Writer:

Bob Cresse (original story)
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Release Date:

4 October 1969 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | War

Tagline:

A Place of Total Despair. All the youthful beauty of Europe enslaved for the pleasure of the 3rd Reich.

Plot:

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

Plot Keywords:

Undercover | Scientist | Nazi | Prison Camp | Fascism

Cast

Bob Cresse	...	Commandant
Maria Lease	...	WAC Lt. Linda Harman
Kathy Williams	...	WAC Lt. Grace Freeman
Bruce Kimball	...	Sgt. Klaus Müller (as Bruce Kemp)
John Alderman	...	Capt. Robert Calais
Rodger Steel
Rod Wilmoth		(as Rod Wilmouth)
David F. Friedman	...	Col. Max Kemp (as Dave Friedman)
Patricia Roddy
John Riazzi
Carolyn Appleby
Louis Mazzarella
Ken Sims
Larry Martinelli
Shelly Martin
Natasha Steel
Robert Baker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jo Ellen
Phil Poth	...	Fire Hose Man (uncredited)

Directed by
Lee Frost		(as R.L. Frost)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Wes Bishop		writer (uncredited)
Bob Cresse		original story (as R.W. Cresse)

Produced by
Wes Bishop	....	associate producer (as Wesdon Bishop)
Bob Cresse	....	producer (as R.W. Cresse)

Cinematography by
Lee Frost		(as R.L. Frost)

Production Management
Paul Wilmoth	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stefan Zema	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Sam Kopetzky	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Harry Woolman	....	special effects (as Harry Wolman)

Other crew
Chuck Fisher	....	production assistant
Steve Offers	....	title designer

Distributors

• Olympic International Films (1969) (USA) (theatrical)
• Cinépix Film Properties (CFP) (1972) (Canada) (theatrical) (cut version)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2003) (USA) (video) (DVD-R)
• Siren Visual Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Market Video (????) (UK) (VHS)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (????) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Hollywood Military Hobbies  authentic uniforms and equipment furnished by
• Olympic International Films  presents (as Olympic International)
• R.L.F. Enterprises  editing

Also Known As:

Nazi Love Camp 7 (Australia) (video box title)
Auschwitz: Gynaikeio stratopedo 119 (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
Camp 7: lager femminile (Italy) [it]
Erikoisleiri no 7 (Finland) [fi]
Erotiko stratopedo tou G' Reich (Greece) [el]

Runtime:

96 min | Australia:94 min (cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:(Banned) | Australia:R (re-rating: 1974) (cut) | UK:R (2002) | Australia:Refused Classification (original rating: 1974) | New Zealand:(Banned) (2005) | Finland:K-18

Trivia:

The film was one of the original 74 video nasties in the UK and consequently banned. When the film was eventually submitted to the BBFC in 2002 it was refused a certificate with the statement as follows - 'The BBFC has refused a classification to the video of LOVE CAMP 7. LOVE CAMP 7 is an exploitation film set in a Nazi 'love camp' during the second World War. The film contains numerous scenes of women prisoners being abused, tortured and humiliated by their Nazi captors. Indeed the whole purpose of the work is to invite male viewers to relish the spectacle of naked women being humiliated for their titillation. LOVE CAMP 7 contains both eroticised depictions of sexual violence and repeated association of sex with restraint, pain, and humiliation. These sequences were in clear contravention of the Board's strict policy on depictions of sexual violence, which prohibits scenes that eroticise or endorse sexual assault. The possibility of cuts was considered. However, because the sexual violence runs throughout the work cutting was not considered to be a viable option'.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in American Sexual Revolution (1971)

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.