There's a She Wolf in the Drawer

Always puts a smile on my face whenever a 4K release of a trashy exploitation film is announced. The likelihood of it potentially riling up some pretentious cinephille, deeming it undeserving and all the while soporifc tosh like some Andrei Tarkovsky film still isn't available, is an additional bonus. The latest examples are the notorious Ilsa films.

The most infamous in the Ilsa series, and best of the lot by my estimation, happens to be the first entry - Ilsa She Wolf of the SS (1975). It shares the rare honour of being the only film in the utterly depraved and thoroughly reprehensible naziexploitation subgenre to receive repeated viewings from me. Maybe it's because its buxom star Dyanne Thorne plays the villainous Ilsa with a surprising degree of conviction, or, perhaps it's due to it being a Canadian production and thus avoiding the usual cheap and dull eurotrash like The Beast in Heat (1977) or The Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977). Whatever the reason, it's an exploitation classic and its sequels are worthwhile too (except maybe the unofficial fourth one, which really isn't an Ilsa film, in my opinion).

This is a good opportunity to show-off one of the few movie themed (and in all honesty, highly problematic) T-shirts I still own, since it's now it's all hot and sunny again. Big fan of Alexandros Pyromallis's illustrations and owning a T-shirt of one of my favourite female villains is very necessary.