Love Camp (1981)
aka Divine Emanuelle: Love Cult
aka Die Todesgöttin des Liebescamps
Genre: Erotic | Hippiesploitation
Country: West Germany | Director: Christian Anders
Language: English | Subtitles: None
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 98mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv – 720×552 – 23.976fps – 1.39gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083215/
The young daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie “free love” cult called “The Children of Light” by the blond boyfriend of the cult’s leader…
This is one of those hippie/”free love”-type films that were big in the early 1970’s (complete with some truly insipid musical numbers) except that it was made in 1980 and was also obviously influenced by the very unpleasant series of Nazi prison camp movies that were big in the mid to late 70’s.
The resulting hybrid is truly bizarre. Members who violate the “free love” ethos of the cult (i.e. by trying to have monogamous relations or refusing to prostitute themselves to perverted outsiders for money) are whipped and tortured. Laura “Black Emanuelle” Gemser is the main attraction here, playing the supreme leader of the cult. I’m sure no one has ever complained about her numerous nude and sex scenes, but she does seem a little miscast as an Ilsa, the Wicked Warden type (she’s a svelte, submissive Asian, not a tall, dominant Teutonic type).
The plot (in so much as there is one) involves a naive senator’s daughter who is seduced into the cult by Gemser’s ridiculously blonde, male second-in-command. The movie plays out like a softcore version of “Hair” with an occasional beating and torture sequence and maybe a nod here and there to the Manson Family and the then recent Guyana tragedy.
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