Kino Lorber has announced a 4K Ultra HD release of director Don Edmonds’ hugely controversial 1975 ‘nazisploitation’ film Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS in the United States.
The film, which was rejected for release in the UK by the BBFC and remains banned on these shores to this day, stars Dyanne Thorne the titular Isla, a sadistic, hypersexual concentration camp commandant – a role that would garner both the film and the actress a cult following. Check out the 4K cover art and release details here…
The textbook example of Nazisploitation, and a cornerstone of the 1970s sexploitation cinema, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS dramatizes the atrocities performed by a sadistic commandant (Dyanne Thorne) at a German concentration camp. Ilsa uses male prisoners as sexual playthings and women as subjects of medical torture, then brutally executes all who fail to satisfy her unholy desires. Despite being condemned by film critic Gene Siskel as “the most degenerate picture I have seen…a textbook for rapists and mutilation freaks,” Don Edmonds’s orgy of violence became a runaway success, immortalizing Thorne as a grindhouse goddess and inspiring three sequels and a host of imitations, none of which could rival the shocking depravity of the original.
Product Extras:
- Audio Commentary by Actress Dyanne Thorne, Director Don Edmonds, and Producer David F. Friedman, Moderated by Humorist Martin Lewis
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Kat Ellinger and Evgueni Mlodik
She Wolf of the SS: Interview With Don Edmonds, by Elijah Drenner
Theatrical Trailer
Stills Gallery
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS will release on 4K on September 20th 2025.
