It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Greta, Wanda or Ilsa the Wicked Warden, different names, same movie. This is a Jess Franco movie so within the first 2 minutes we have a bunch of naked women in a shower room, their substantial pubic hair almost hitting you in the face! This, an unofficial addition to the notorious Ilsa series, focuses more on sex & nudity (well, it is a Franco movie) than the violence of the other films. Having said that there's a very bloody fate in store for our Dyanne at the end. One other bonus is that we get to see a lot more of her ample charms than in previous outings. Released as Ilsa the Wicked Warden in the UK it's cut by 2m 31s.

I thought that Ilsa The Wicked Warden was a good film by director Jess Franco. Greta is the sadistic warden of a female prison camp in South America. This terrible place is protected by the government. Greta has power over all the lives of the prisoners that are there. A girl manages to escape, but is eventually caught by one of the guards. Aby Phillips, the sister of the girl Dr. Arcos saw being abused persuades him to smuggle her into the asylum, where she is determined to find her sister,. Afther Aby arrives at the asylum she gets humiliated by the sadistic wardens and inmates. I fought that this was a good film by Jess Franco. It did contain a lot of strong violence and lesbianism in the film which might be too much for some people.

I didn't believe that I was ever going to find a movie like this. I had watched She Wolf of the SS, and I was thinking that The Wicked Warden wasn't going THAT brutal. But, for my surprise, it was a lot worse.First of all, we got Dyanne Thorne, and there's at least two big reasons to watch any Dyanne Thorne movie (if you know what I mean). Second, there's Lina Romay. And, where, besides the amazing world of exploitation, would you find sadomasochism, lesbians, cat fights, extreme violence, and a lot of nudity in the same movie? Jess Franco is really one of my favorite directors. It was a lot better than his Women in Cellblock 9, his previous WIP. Too bad they don't make movies like this anymore.Pure fun.

Strange, depraved vision of Jess Franco's concerning Ilsa, that wicked, blouse-popping sadist of the famous/infamous series starring statuesque/bosomy Dyanne Thorne. This time around a young girl gets into a hospital run for women who suffer from sex-related diseases such as lesbianism and nymphomania. It seems she had a sister admitted a year ago and wants to find out what has happened to her even though she knows no patient has ever left. The film takes place somewhere in South America where a government is fighting rebels. Well, you get what you might expect from a series like this: lots of nude girls, lots of perversion, lots of sadism, lots of sleaze, and generally a sick/guilty feeling having seen it. There are many scenes which are downright disgusting such as one dealing with the use of a plastic bag, another with pins and a human pin cushion, shock therapy, a night with the boys from the local prison, and the grand finale where Greta(Thorne) is out to lunch with the girls. Franco is a decent director in terms of piecing a film together(despite what the subject matter might be). He can draw scenes out for suspense. He can also shock which he does well too. The acting was decent overall. Thorne is way over-the-top, but hey who cares once they see her? She is the personification of voluptuousness wearing her strained military blouse and high boots with red hair this time round. Ilsa, the Wicked Warden is a unique look at what film can do...and perhaps should not do.