The Gestapo's Last Orgy [Blu-ray]

Bit slow and not the best but if you like this type of movie it’s good for the collection .

Still banned in the UK as one of the infamous Video Nasties —Section 1 — this might be the roughest of all Nazisploitation movies and that’s saying something. I mean, they don’t call it Last Orgy Of The Third Reich and Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler because it’s a family movie.Cesare Canevari made nine movies, from giallo (A Hyena in the Safe and Killing of the Flesh) to westerns (Matalo!) and erotic films (A Man for Emmanuelle, The Nude Princess). None of these will prepare you for this film.Conrad von Starke (Marc Loud, who is really Adriano Micantoni) has agreed to meet in the ruins of an old death camp with Lise Cohen (Daniela Poggi, the only actress that I know who went from Nazi movie star to UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador), whose testimony may have saved his life at a war crimes trial. They make love inside the walls of the decimated camp as Lise remembers when this place was a soul destroying machine. I mean, where else would they line up an army of SS troopers and make them watch videos so disgusting that even I was taken aback and then unleashed upon unsuspecting women?Between the idea taking directly from The Night Porter and this scene being Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom on a small scale, this movie obviously does not care at all about your sensibiities.As if the movie heard you wonder, “Can it get any worse?” then the officers eat a stew made out of babies before roasting a woman by coating her in brandy, throwing her in an open coffin and setting her ablaze before eating her. I mean, this movie has enough to offend you in two of ots minutes more than just about everything that will come out in the next five years.Why is Lise so strong in the face of torture, unlike everyone else? Because she gave her family over to the SS and wants to die to atone for her sins. When a camp doctor tells her that this was not her fault, she finds that she wants to live by any means she can, so she becomes Starke’s woman. After his jealous German girlfriend assaults him with his own whip, he strangles her and proclaims his love for Lise, who shows hers by wearing a belt made of the scalps of her fellow prisoners. Yet when she has his child, a half-Jewish infant has no place in the Fatherland.This wakes her from her memories and after they finish making love, she murders him.Man, this movie!Seriously, this is not for everyone. But there’s definitely some class here. I mean, there’s also a scene where a woman eats her own waste and poses with it, so there’s that. But this has a production budget, great costumes and an attempt at telling an actual story when it’s not doing all it can to either make you run screaming or desensitize you for life.Somehow, you may wonder, just how gorgeous can a 1977 Italian Nazi movie look? Funny story — it looks great thanks to a brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negatives. It’s raw and completely uncut with new subtitles and two audio commentaries one by critic and author Samm Deighan and the other by Italian movie specialists Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thomson. The package with slipcover is beautiful, along with a book and double sided poster. You can get this from MVD or Diabolik DVD. Seriously, if you have the stomach for it, 88 Films knocked this release out of the park.

Blecch! That's the only word that can describe this mess. Titillating? Yes. Raunchy? Yes. Any good? Absolutely not. Instead of shocks this 'nasty' delivers only bores. It's so horribly made, the only exploitative part is if you finish watching it..

Average but very well known Nazisploitation flick from the 70s. I knew of it as Last Orgy Of The Third Reich growing up from discovering it in a used book store as a kid in the 90s.Overall it has what youd expect from a film of this ilk but it lacks over the top zaniness of Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS. One of the better entries of the genre but not the best.

There are some movies that require two points of view to be presented. One would be your own point of view and the other the point of view of someone who finds the genre being discussed as differing from your own. For example someone who enjoys porn would have a different viewpoint on a pornographic film than say a minister. They might both agree about the quality of the production but not the content. So let me try and present both sides when discussing THE GESTAPO’S LAST ORGY.Like most films in the genre the story revolves around a concentration camp. The film opens with Conrad von Starke (Andriano Micantoni) driving through the countryside of Germany as the voice over plays of a trail of an ex-Nazi at Nuremberg. Starke arrives at a meeting with a woman named Lise (Daniela Levy an Italian TV presenter and future UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Daniela Poggi), a woman who provided the evidence needed to get him off of the charges. Lise was one inmates at the concentration camp Starke ran. She takes him to the remnants of the camp where they make love and then a series of flashbacks begin.The camp is not your normal prisoner of war camp. To begin with only women are taken to this camp. They are separated between those who will work the camp and those who will become playthings for those in charge and soldiers brought there on leave. These soldiers are allowed to do whatever they want with the women with the exception of getting them pregnant since the Nazis believe that Jewish women are beneath them.As time progresses Commandant Starke takes on Lise as his own personal pet. She seems unable to break and he has made up his mind that he will be the one to break her. But this task will not be as easy as it seems.On the plus side, 88 Films has done a fantastic job with this release. The quality of the film scan remastered in 2k from the original camera negative looks cleaner than one would expect from a film that mainly showed in grindhouses in the US and art theaters in Europe. In addition to that this offering presents the film in its uncut form. This is the first edition of this film to be released in the US and fans of Nazisploitation films will be flocking to add this one to their collection.Those fans will delight in the fact the films offers them everything the genre has offered in the past and more. In addition to that the folks at 88 Films have included some great extras as well. One of those is a reversible mini-poster for the film. There is also an audio commentary track by critic and author Samm Deighan and another audio commentary track by Italian movie specialists Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thomson.Now the downside, keeping in mind this is my personal opinion. If you find a movie filled with rape, incest, cannibalism, people sodomized by bats, sexual deviancy and worse to your liking then I have to wonder what world you were raised in. This film features all of that. A woman who is menstruating is found unworthy of being raped and degraded so instead they feed her to the starving Dobermans. A group of Nazis having a fine dining experience have no issue when finding out the meat in the meal is unborn Jewish infants. Not only that, when one of the prisoners passes out, they coat her in the meat and roast her there on the table.The film is considered one of the more “artistic” films of the genre. This is in part because there are momentary sequences where there is less taking place visually and instead we hear about how the Jews are less than and unworthy of existence.There is a story here and it’s one of degradation, torture and sexual deviancy. Being Nazis one has to assume this was a group that no one would complain about as being depicted this way. The story all of this is wrapped around is thin at best. It does have a method to the madness at the end of the film but it is still a depressing feature to have to wait for that one moment to happen.I have no doubt that this film will be making its way to the hands of collectors long waiting for a US release. One of the UK’s video nasties it will also do well there. For the more average movie buff watch this at your own risk.

First it was Redemption, then Arrow and now 88 Films. All originally from the U.K. and now invading the USA. Do they really think the market for these obscure movies is really that big here? Umm...it's not. It's a small portion of the population. Stay in England.

An another video nasty release from the 70's a very enjoyable film