Love Camp

I added this comment on the Full Moon DVD release, mostly to comment on the image quality and a potential issue about the length of this movie. This 1977 film was originally entitled to as “Frauen im Liebeslager”, and is part of the “German” collaboration between director Jess Franco and producer Erwin Dietrich, who also wrote the “script” here. About the story, a group of women are kidnapped, transported to some South American country, and forced to be sex slaves for a group of revolutionaries (a guerrilla). As you might guess from movies alike, including the “Ilsa” series, a warden woman plays the nasty and sadistic character. There no explicit gory violence here. Instead, one gets lots of women (some male) nudity through >90% of the movie, and softcore scenes. Overall, an average film among its kind. Those Franco aficionados may feel this movie goes a bit more on Dietrich side than Franco’s (I did).Technically, this is a Full Moon, region free DVD release. The image is in widescreen format, pretty clean, with clear colors, most likely because the image has been digitally restored before by Ascot Elite for the European market. The audio comes as dubbed English. As you might guess, only a German audio would be worse than the dubbed English audio provided; the accents are funny though. Extras include an audio interview with the “maestro”, and the trailer.Finally, and my main motivation to write this review, the main feature length here runs at nearly 79 minutes, not the 101 minutes advertised in the back cover of this DVD release. This “mistake” by “Fooling” Moon remains suspicious to me as IMDB indicates this movie to originally run over that same extended length. So, I really wonder whether a full, uncut, or extended version of this piece of cinema do exists.

Five women are topless or fully nude for almost the entire movie. Close up full frontal views and one super up close full frontal. All women have beautiful real breasts and are not bald. That Jess Franco knew how to make movies.

An enjoyable movie.

it was ok.

Disguised soft porn and not a good one !

A very good Jess Franco movie.

ok

One of Spanish sexploitation maestro Jess Franco's earliest directorial outings featured a 'women in prison' plot line and it was a great commercial success. Never one to 'rest on his laurels' Franco generated numerous 'knock-offs' of his own formula during the course of his ridiculously prolific career and "Love Camp" is one of them. Technically, this isn't actually a WIP film as the featured females have been kidnapped (rather than legally incarcerated) and held by a group of Marxist(?) rebels to serve as prostitutes for the freedom fighters. That minor plot point aside, "Love Camp" plays out exactly like numerous other WIP films set in a jungle locale. All of the requisite scenes of: naked showers, lesbian liaisons, punitive whippings, and forced sex are represented and the captured girls are all naked throughout. As with most Franco flix the 'plot' exists primarily to provide some kind of framework for the nude girls to prance around and this movie offers a particularly simplistic scenario and lots of nudity in the attractive female cast - so I guess it could be considered a success. Franco worked with a German cast and production crew on this one and there is a bit of a physical disconnect between the purported Latin American setting of the film and the decidedly Germanic look of the actors - especially the blonde 'rebel leader' Chino who looks like he would have been more at home in an "Illsa" flik. There was also a strong sense of deja vu as the jungle setting for the 'love camp' has been used in at least two other Franco films I've seen. In summation - certainly 'nothing you haven't seen before' in this one - essentially just a good excuse to parade some comely female flesh around - one of Franco's lesser efforts. On th 'plus' side - the DVD quality is excellent and it does have an English soundtrack and lots of extras.

This is a brilliant adult film with nothing spared. In Germany where this was from orinally, porn stories like these were compleley legal. Where as in victoriana Britain in the seventies these would be banned from purchase. Or even get arrested under the current obscenity regulations that were in place by the nanny state. There's some really attractive girls and so so looking guys in this jungle set flim. Ending seems a little strange. Actual horror or bloody scenes are quite minimal as is the terrible acting, where you can see quite clear, no whipping took place only by bad camera simulated hands cutting through thin air😁All the same it's more or less intact from the days when it got noticed by the BBS. And was heavily cut or refused a certificate back then. This film has German covers but there is English language, but only dubbed. A eye opening look back into culture and rights of individuals to buy what they wanted without interference from censors and UK governments alike.

Good

Review is for the Full Moon Features DVD : Excellent quality, anamorphic widescreen print of the fully uncut, UNRATED version. Top notch WIP exploitation from the master of Euro sleaze Jess Franco. Fairly minimal, but interesting, extras include some grainy, and quite funny, old VHS trailers for other Franco films, plus an audio interview with him from the early 70's, in French with subtitles. A good, explicit, WIP film, for those that enjoy such things, now available at a decent price, REGION FREE too.

very happy thank you

Thank You very much