Tigress - 1977
Director
Jean LaFleur
Writer
Marven McGara
Producer(s)
Roger Corman producer
Ivan Reitman producer
Cast
Dyanne Thorne - Ilsa
Michel-René Labelle
Gilbert Beaumont
Jean-Guy Latour - Gregory
Ray Landry
Terry Haig
Jacques Morin
Henry Gamer
Jorma Lindqvist
Gil Viviano
Anne Marie Guenette
Nicole Fortin
Bertha Pierre
Carole Péloquin
Carol Down
Kirk McColl
Judy Galt
Lucie Hutchins
Michel Mathiot
Tony Angelo
Tommy Candy
Joe Mattia
Sonny Forbes
Greg Gianis
Edward Mader
Howard Maurer - Soldier in Gulag camp, one of Ilsa's lovers (uncredited)
Michel Morin - Andrei Kovalev
Review by Sven Soetemans
Ilsa's final sleazy chapter…,
Dyanne Thorne's last adventure as the busty shrew Ilsa takes place in Siberia anno 1953, during Stalin's dictatorship. She's the heartless and perverted commandant of `Gulag 14' where political prisoners are getting brainwashed and re-educated in favor of Stalin's ideas. When his reign abruptly ends, Ilsa and her closest companions are forced to flee to Canada. More than 20 years later – during the Montreal Olympics of 1976 – she runs into one of her toughest opponents. She runs a chain of luxurious brothels by now and she uses her power to get even with an old enemy. The initial shock-values of `She Wolf of the SS' are long gone and Ilsa isn't half as creepy as she used to. On the contrary, her actions become more and more dreadful and this film is overall lame. There are a few ingenious torturing methods present in Tigress – like a chainsaw/arm-wrestling contest and drowning in ice-cold water - as well as a lot of soft-core action. Ilsa still guarantees a lot of voyeurism and she now even needs two men at the time, in order to be satisfied. The script is filled with unintentionally hilarious lines, like `Your body is full and warm, like Mother Russia itself' But…even a constant series of naked boobs and bloody mutilation becomes tedious after a while. The Ilsa-series sure prove that. These films have a giant cult following and I'm sure the diehard fans will still enjoy this final installment. If you're more like a random cult-film explorer, I advise you to stop after the first Ilsa film
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