Tuesday, May 12, 2015

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Chuck Reviews Deported Women Of The SS Special Section in 3 Minutes or Less

DEPORTED WOMEN OF THE SS SPECIAL SECTION (1976)


This Nazisploitation classic released in 1976 was directed by Rino de Silvestro and stars exploitation film legend John Steiner as the sadistic camp warden torturing bevies of beautiful naked women for the glory of the Third Reich.


The blog Oh, The Horror gives a pretty good summary of what there is of a plot:  "Its loose plot revolves around a group of women shipped off to a Nazi death camp, where they're humiliated and forced to serve as field whores.  Depraved commander Erner (John Steiner) lords over the camp with the help of various wicked wardens, all of whom sexually degrade and torment the captives."



To get the idea what kind of movie this is, one of the longest sequences is at the beginning, when after arriving at the camp we get several good close ups of the prisoners' pubic hair being shaved.  As Oh, The Horror notes: "If the films aspirations weren't already apparent here, just know that it actually has no ramifications on the movie at all - none of the women appear to be shorn at any later point in the film."



All the usual conventions of the "Women in Prison Movie" are here.  We got lots of sadistic lesbian guards.  And we've got the obligatory shower scene with lots of soapy naked girls.  (I guess since this is a concentration camp for whores to please the soldiers of the Third Reich you got to keep 'em clean!),


This movie was actually banned in Great Britain because of a scene near the end when the heroine gets her revenge on the camp warden by putting razor blades up her vagina before he has his date night with her!


The funniest thing was not the movie but the special features on the DVD I watched that had an interview with the director Rino de Silvestro where he, with a straight face, maintained that this was a serious film!  The interview with John Steiner was also a lot of fun.  When asked about Deported Women of the SS Special Section, Steiner laughed and said "What a piece of trash!"   The DVD from Intervision also contained a history of the Sadiconazista genre with German film historian Dr. Marcus Stiglegger (the lecture from Dr. Stiglegger may have been better than the movie to tell the truth!)


This was a pretty good piece of Euro Trash.  There's lots of pretty good looking naked women in it. Those fetish aficionados who get off on watching Nazis torture beautiful women, won't be disappointed.



Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!


I just finished reading Mike Edison's very entertaining history of "the four horsemen" of pornography: Playboy, Penthouse, Screw and Hustler.  As well as being a joint biography of Hugh Hefner, Bob Guccione, Al Goldstein and Larry Flynt, the book is also a cultural history of seedier side of culture in the United States from the founding of Playboy in 1953 until today.


Edison is the former publisher of High Times and editor in chief of Screw magazine.  Edison's opinionated and foul mouthed tome is highly enjoyable.  Who knew that there was so much to know about titty magazines?


Four a full review, I can't do better than this from Kirkus Review.  Highly recommended.


Hef in his heyday with main girlfriend Barbi Benton.
According to Edison, Hef was an ambitious nerd who got lucky
and was in the right place at the right time.

Hef was always selling a lifestyle and not just a titty magazine.
The "Playboy Philosophy" is basically that every guy can be well dressed,
have expensive toys, be an intellectual and still get laid at the same time.

These days the 85 year old Hef has to take lots of Viagra
and have gay porn playing in the background to be able to 
service his "girls next door".

Bob Guccione originally wanted to be a Catholic Priest!
Guccione thought that everything he did was art.
After losing millions of dollars on the movie Caligula and
losing millions more unsuccessfully trying to build a casino in Atlantic City,
Guccione died penniless in 2010.

The heyday of Penthouse was the 1970s and 80s.
At one time, Penthouse was fresh and daring and made Playboy look like what it was: 
your Dad's magazine

Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein was a multi-millionaire, and owned a mansion in Florida.   Unwilling to expand into video and the internet, he died penniless in a nursing home.

In the good old days before the internet, Screw was hardcore and politically incorrect.

Champion of the First Amendment.  The guy who cussed out the Supreme Court to their faces.  Shot and paralyzed by a guy mad because Flynt published pictures of a black man with a white woman in Hustler, Flynt is sort of a martyr to the First Amendment.
By far the most successful pornographer of all time,  by going with the times and expanding into video and the internet, Flynt currently has a net worth of around 
$400 million.

Flynt admits he's a pornographer, unlike Hef the sophisticated gentleman and Guccione the artist. Between hardcore porn, the pages of Hustler contained hard hitting social and political commentary.