Love Camp 7 is regarded as a
cult classic because it represents the beginning of a fashion for
exploitation films about
women in prison in the 1970s, such as
Women in Cages (1971) and
The Big Bird Cage (1972), both of which made
Pam Grier a recognizable name in the genre. It is also the first in the
Nazi exploitation (or Nazisploitation) genre of concentration camp movies, including
Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1974) – which was produced by
David F. Friedman and led to several sequels with
Dyanne Thorne as the titular character – and the Italian
Nazi Love Camp 27 (1977) and
Last Orgy of the Third Reich (1977), the latter of which helped launch
Daniela Poggi's showbusiness career. It was declined a video certificate by the
British Board of Film Classification in 2002 and by the
New Zealand Office of Film & Literature Classification. The film was then one of the 72
video nasties banned in the UK. It was originally banned in Australia, before passing several times in a modified version with an R18+ rating. It was finally passed uncut in 2005. ==See also==