The depiction of wartime atrocities for entertainment purposes is undeniably in very poor taste, and it's easy to understand how Love Camp 7 still remains unavailable in the UK (along with a whole bunch of similarly themed titles). Of course, it is this complete lack of sensibility on the film-makers' part, coupled with the film's notoriety as a 'video nasty, plenty of unintentional hilarity (depending on how warped your sense of humour is, of course) and the fact that the film kick-started the entire Nazisploitation genre, that qualifies the film as essential viewing for anyone remotely interested in thoroughly deviant and taboo-busting trash cinema.
Directed with zero finesse by Lee Frost and featuring a virtually talentless cast (men fresh from the 'Ve haf vays of making you talk' school of Nazi acting and a bevy of big-breasted 60s babes willing to shed all for a few minutes on screen), the film is far from a masterpiece of 60s cinema, but it delivers where it counts, with non-stop nudity and female degradation, some very silly sex scenes in which the men all strangely opt to keep their trousers on, and a violent ending that sees the baddies finally get what they deserve.
Although certain later Nazisploitation movies (particularly those out of Italy) would outdo Love Camp 7 in terms of excess in virtually every department, the film still offers enough depravity, sleaze and general schlock to please most fans of the genre and at the very least deserves recognition for being the first to have the balls to tackle such a delicate subject in so brazen a manner.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.
Directed with zero finesse by Lee Frost and featuring a virtually talentless cast (men fresh from the 'Ve haf vays of making you talk' school of Nazi acting and a bevy of big-breasted 60s babes willing to shed all for a few minutes on screen), the film is far from a masterpiece of 60s cinema, but it delivers where it counts, with non-stop nudity and female degradation, some very silly sex scenes in which the men all strangely opt to keep their trousers on, and a violent ending that sees the baddies finally get what they deserve.
Although certain later Nazisploitation movies (particularly those out of Italy) would outdo Love Camp 7 in terms of excess in virtually every department, the film still offers enough depravity, sleaze and general schlock to please most fans of the genre and at the very least deserves recognition for being the first to have the balls to tackle such a delicate subject in so brazen a manner.
6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.