Gestapo's Last Orgy (1978)

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The Plot. Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron fist by Commandant Starker and his minion Alma. Starker becomes frustrated when Lise demonstrates no fear, and devises cruel experiments to scare her, to no avail. Once she realizes her guilt is unfounded, Lise begins to play Starker's game, but even though she begins living a better life, she doesn't forget the atrocities she has seen and experienced.The titles are the best part of this film. Other than that, I fast forwarded to the atrocity parts because it's really boring.Frankly, so are the atrocities. They make no sense.Not one of the better exploitation movies.

Good god, I don't even know where to start. Just the read the title and you'd think you would get a pretty good idea of what to expect. In Italian the title translates to 'Last Orgy of the Third Reich' but in English the film is known under the title 'Gestapo's Last Orgy.' But believe or not, this actually one of the better entries in the Nazisploitation genre, and certainly one of the most depraved.The plot of the movie is simple; Lise Cohen (played by future UNICEF member Daniella Poggi under the alias Daniella Levy) is meeting up with Commandant Starker at the ruins of the female death camp she was sent to. There, we see through flashbacks what happened to her at the site: as a prisoner, her iron will and refusal to show fears leads to interest from the Commandant of the camp, who begins to take interest in trying to break her through humiliation and torture. Overtime, we see them develop a closer relationship that Lise uses to her advantage so she can survive. But all is not as it seems, and we see the film end a "tragic" note (depends on how you define the word "tragic.").For such a low budget picture, the movie is surprisingly well-made considering the sleaze this film contains. The acting is certainly passable, the dubbing is actually pretty good and the sets are well-done. The score gives off a very heinous and gloomy feel although I wouldn't be surprised if it's from the public domain. The main theme played at the beginning and concluding credits though, is surprisingly uplifting with the German lyrics and bright singing by some woman whose identity will probably remain unknown forever. Hell, there's even some character development because why the hell not? Granted there a couple of obvious problems with such a low budget film, look no further than the infamous "killer gerbil" scene (they're supposed to be rats!), or even one of the other torture scenes (yeah I'm sure that's really what quicklime looks like!).Now is the part where I get to talk about the actual content of the movie. What we get is a movie that undoubtedly aimed to be the sickest in its sub-genre, and perhaps actually accomplished it. Like all Nazisploitation movies, it is not the Nazis themselves being exploited, but the atrocities they committed. This is one of the few films in the genre to actually refer to the prisoners as Jews, and uses such wonderful adjectives as "subhuman" and "undesirable." Surprisingly, the violence is rather limited when compared to some of the other exploitation movies of the time period, but the film decided to make up for that with plenty of disturbing scenes and imagery to go along with the touchy script, including the necessary overabundance of swastikas and Nazi imagery, and just about any woman in this movie is seen naked at one point. At one point the female Commandant shows a collection of items made from the body parts of the concentration camp victims, presumably inspired by actual items recovered from camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Hell, even in one of the versions, they still cut a few scenes out, even though some of the nudity and violence remained. Yeah, it's that bad.To conclude, I'll address the multiple cuts of this film that I've seen. The most common seems to be a cut using the Gestapo's Last Orgy title that cuts out a good chunk of the notorious dinner scene as well as some shots of victims dying and/or suffering in the camp, and contains a shortened ending. The cut using the absurd Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler title (neither Caligula nor Hitler is mentioned in the film) is more of the same, except the intro cuts are inter-spliced over with the Taylor Wane lookalike from the cover (probably an attempt to reel in more of a BD/SM audience). Finally there's a truly uncut version (also using the original GLO title) which contains everything that is available in both the original Italian dialog as well as the English dubbing. If you're hardcore into these type of films this one is certainly recommended, but for the uninitiated be forewarned: of all the "video nasties," this is probably the nastiest.

Lise Cohen is taken to a special Nazi camp for Jewish women,a camp run as a bordello where the most depraved sexual fantasies can become sensual reality.The camp is run by sadistic Commandant Starker and his revolting minion Alma.Starker becomes frustrated when Lise demonstrates no fear,so he subjects her to torture and sexual humiliation."Gestapo's Last Orgy" is a sleazy Nazisploitation flick with enough torture and depravity to satisfy any self-respecting smut-peddler.The banquet sequence with 'pot roast of unborn Jew' is especially memorable as is the sequence of Lise being tied up naked,by her feet over a glass container of rats.If you are into depraved 70's Italian exploitation cinema "Gestapo's Last Orgy" is one to watch.8 out of 10.

Out of sheer lurid curiosity I rented this Naz-xploitation flick and it fully lived up to its shocking promise. This treats the Nazis not just as "sadists" commonly understood, but true sadists, i.e., those who are sexually excited by inflicting pain, mental toment, anguish and death on others. So, it serves up not just the violence expected in concentration camp storytelling, focuses exclusively on sexual cruelty. It's production values are uneven, but it's obvious someone spent a fair amount on producing this, and it makes one wonder: did the filmakers really think there would be a wide audience for this depravity? I can't imagine any cinema programming this. The banquet scene, where some debauched "doctor" proudly and leeringly announces the evening's entree, "pot roast of unborn Jew", is out there on the disgusting scale with the banquet scene in "Salo". In other words, this is extreme stuff. Yikes.It's also obvious that the screenwriters did their homework on the writings of DeSade; the speeches some of these characters make could have been transposed from "The 120 Days of Sodom". Plus, the fact that the depravity all takes place on an isolated castle ground, on an island in the middle of a river, is yet another Sadean tableau.Not for weak stomachs.