SS Experiment Camp

SS Experiment Camp

SS Experiment Camp is a 1976 Nazi exploitation film directed by Sergio Garrone. The plot concerns a Nazi officer who has been castrated. It gained infamy in the 1980s for its bad-taste sexual and violent content involving, as the title suggests, Nazi human experimentation. The film was banned in some countries. In the UK, the film was subject to prosecution as one of the films known as video nasties, a title used in the press and by campaigners that came to be used for a list of films that could be found obscene under the Obscene Publications Act.

Bizarre Magazine, in a 2004 overview of the Naziploitation genre, said the following: "Its advertising campaign, an image of a semi-naked woman hanging upside-down from a crucifix, was instrumental in bringing unwanted attention to the Nasties, although, beyond that, its infamy is unwarranted". [Bizarre Magazine, November 2004 issue]

A similar view of it was taken by the British Board of Film Classification, who passed it uncut the next year, noting "Despite the questionable taste of basing an exploitation film in a concentration camp, the sexual activity itself was consensual and the level of potentially eroticised violence sufficiently limited" [ [http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/documents/BBFC_AnnualReport_2005.pdf untitled ] ] . However, in 2008, it was denounced by the Sunday Times [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article3257073.ece Stop this debasing film -Times Online ] ] and Sunday Express [ [http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/32920/Outrage-at-sick-Nazi-DVDs-for-sale Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: UK News :: Outrage at sick Nazi DVDs for sale ] ] at the time of Holocaust Memorial Day, and cited by MPs Julian Brazier and Keith Vaz as part of their attempts to tighten the film banning system.

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