Gutsycurene
Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
BeSummers
Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Frances Chung
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Scott LeBrun
"Deported Women of the SS Special Section" sure provides plenty of sordid details for those who adore the grim, gritty, and nasty side of B cinema. The thing is, it's going to require a fair bit of patience on their part, as this movie is *very* slowly paced.The story deals with a variety of Jewish women taken prisoner during WWII and taken to a Nazi prison where they're subjected to the expected tortures. There's not much more story than that, except for the longing that ultra creepy camp commandant Herr Erner (John Steiner) expresses for leading lady Tania Nobel (Lina Polito).There's some melodrama to get through, in between the exploitative moments, accompanied by plaintive music by the talented Stelvio Cipriani. But don't worry, voyeurs, you'll be more than happy with the constant parade of bare female flesh. In loving close-up, no less. We even get to witness as women are repeatedly (and slowly) shaved down below. Of course, there are shower scenes, and lesbian love making scenes. (There's even one male homosexual encounter.) And in addition to all of the female nudity, there's a brief glimpse of the male anatomy as well.The acting is commendably straight faced. Polito is lovely but rather aloof. Erna Schurer co-stars as Kapo Helga; Solvi Stubing has a great role as a guard. The gorgeous Stefania D'Amario (of Fulci's "Zombie") plays Angela, and Rik Battaglia plays Dr. Schubert. The standout in the cast is clearly Steiner, offering a deliciously depraved performance. This is one kinky guy.If you just can't get enough of this genre, this movie should prove to be satisfactory. Certainly the Italians were particularly adept masters at this kind of exploitation.Seven out of 10.
gridoon2018
The female body is a work of art, why would anyone want to see a movie where it is not treated well? I guess I'm wondering why entire sub-genres that are little more than a series of female torture and humiliation scenes are so popular (maybe we can be optimistic and say most viewers are just waiting for the 10-minute payback at the end?), but this is a discussion for another time, another place. There are certainly a lot of (often naked, usually beautiful, always natural) female bodies in "Deported Women of the SS Special Section", and the film itself is rather tamer than expected. In fact, for all the atrocities contained herein, the nastiest scene may be the one where the heroine licks the hairy leg of a fat middle-aged man! No no, the nastiest is probably what happens to that same man a little later (other reviews have already mentioned it)....Writer-director Rino Di Silvestro is better as the latter: the direction is almost arty at times (though the DVD transfer is rather murky), but the script is disjointed. As the prison camp's commander, John Steiner chews the scenery up and spits it out, contrasting with Lina Polito's quiet, dignified presence as his object of obsession. The film has its moments, but it is still recommended only to exploitation fanatics. (*1/2)
Woodyanders
The hapless Jewish female prisoners at an SS Special Section concentration camp are subjected to all kinds of torture, sadism and depravity by their brutal Nazi captors. Fed up with all the gross mistreatment they are forced to endure on a regular basis, the women join together to plot to escape and turn the tables on their cruel oppressors. Writer/director Rino ("Werewolf Woman") Di Silvestri really delivers the lowdown sleazy goods in a fiercely explicit and unflinching manner: there's plentiful nudity, two group shower scenes, pubic hair shaving, rape, lesbianism, voyeurism, catfights, degradation, castration (one of the women hides a razor blade in her vagina!), and perversion galore. Moreover, the production values are surprisingly polished and up to par: Sergio D'Offizi's slick cinematography (the smooth tracking shots and sturdy hand-held camera-work are both quite impressive), an unrelentingly bleak, stark and gritty tone, solid and credible acting from a good cast (John Steiner in particular makes for a perfectly strict, haughty and merciless degenerate creep of a camp commandant while Solvi Stubing likewise does well as a mean guard), a thrilling last reel jailbreak and Stelvio Cipriani's melodic, gloomy, haunting score are all on the money fine and effective. Although it's way too grim, rough and depressing to be much fun, this potent little item nonetheless still qualifies as a very gripping and harrowing movie.
Dr. Gore
*SPOILER ALERT* SPOILER ALERT*"Deported Women of the S.S. Special Section" is about the daily ins and outs of life in a Nazi women's prison. The women get to the camp and are given the usual medical tests to make sure they're healthy enough for torture. There is a long shaving sequence in which pubic hair goes under the razor. That was hilarious. It was all for health reasons of course. The commander of the camp becomes infatuated with one of the prisoners. He wants her to love him. He goes through various romantic wooing ideas, (humiliation, solitary confinement), until she decides to leave a present in her vagina for him in the climax.This was an OK piece of Naziploitation. Nothing was too outrageous. There is not enough of anything to really recommend seeing it. There was a decent amount of nudity and the pubic hair shaving scene was appropriately sleazy. There was also a pretty nice lesbian scene as well. But overall you would expect a Nazi death camp flick to be a little more brutal. This was fairly, (for Naziploitation), tame.Oh, one last thing. There is a scene where the prison commander and his loyal man servant have a brief homosexual encounter. This was the last thing I was expecting to see in my Women's prison flick. Needless to say, a big turn off.