Because my idea of a chick-flick is ‘The Night Porter’…

Schlockmania takes on two recently-released-on-DVD Italian-Nazisploitation doozies:

InterVision has also added some nice extras to com­ple­ment the main attrac­tions.  Both discs fea­ture “A Brief History Of Sadiconazista,” a fea­turette that has professor/film scholar Dr. Marcus Stiglegger dis­cussing the his­tory of Nazisploitation films.

The results are thought­ful and schol­arly but never dull.  He dis­cusses vir­tu­ally every key title in under 36 min­utes, giv­ing them an inci­sive treat­ment with­out ever tak­ing the sil­lier exam­ples too seri­ously.  He’s also able to dis­pel some myths that inform these films, like the pop­u­lar but untrue leg­end of “Joy Division” sex camps often used in these films’ plot­lines.  He has a lot of inter­est­ing things to say about both Gestapo’s and Deported, includ­ing how the lat­ter is in many ways is styled like a gothic hor­ror film.

And my idea of a horror movie is Bus Stop.