Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Nigel P This Jess Franco/Erwin C. Dietrich collaboration is sometimes considered a very loose continuation of the 'Ilsa' series that began two years earlier with 'Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS', also starring Dyanne Thorne in the title role. As you may expect, this is also known as a variety of titles: 'Greta, the Mad Butcher', 'Ilsa: Absolute Power', and 'Wanda, the Wicked Warden'. These changes in title, and in the name of the lead character, suggest this film might not have been initially intended as part of the series at all.So, then - Abbie Philips (Tania Busselier) is admitted into an austere psychiatric hospital for women. Unbeknownst to all, she is here because of false pretences: with the help of Doctor Milton Arcas (Jess Franco), who has long suspected foul play at the establishment but been unable to do anything about it, Abbie, or 'No 41', is a 'plant', here to find out what happened to her sister and possibly rescue her. She comes across perverse Juan (played by the always excellent Lina Romay, as cute as a button in a bob cut), ostensibly the 'top dog' amongst the women, and secretly the lesbian lover of terrifying chief warden Isla (or Wanda, or Greta, of course).This follows very much the pattern of other Franco 'women in prison' fantasies I have seen. The very effective - even restrained - scenes of torture are few and far between but pretty shockingly realised. For all his invasive camera techniques, Jess rarely lingers on gore, and that is the case here (although the abrupt ending is a pleasing exception), although what there is, is realistically (and painfully) conveyed. The dubbing is a lot better than on non-Dietrich collaborations, and Jess's direction is deceptively straightforward, happy to let the acting and circumstances speak for themselves without frantic zooms, etc. The locations are breath-taking and whenever a gun-shot is fired, it is a dubbed sound effect. The story moves at a fair lick too, and doesn't meander too much although there are moments of dullness. In short, these films show Franco's style in an effective, disciplined manner, but still allow him to indulge (and delight) in his non PC eccentricities.

MrBelette This movie is boring, you can no longer expect to make movies interesting only by showing actresses in the nude. It doesn't work anymore. What exactly people see in Franco movies is beyond comprehension. He really is a terrible director doing crap movies. For the reviewer who says he wants all Franco movies : don't do that to yourself I'm sure you don't deserve it. And besides remember he made a lot of them so beware ! It doesn't qualify as a Ilsa movie which is fair enough if you consider it's in fact not really one but it's only a tedious WIP film that has stupid dialogs and no plot. It just drags along to reach its end since the script is based only on this final scene. Too bad Franco directed it in such a ridiculous way !

Michael_Elliott Greta, The Mad Butcher (1977) aka Ilsa: The Wicked Warden *** (out of 4) Jess Franco's wicked women in prison film was released in America as an unofficial entry in the Ilsa series but outside the leading actress that's the only connection to the series. This time out a woman goes undercover in a mental hospital to try and prove that the warden (Dyanne Thorne) is a psychotic maniac who uses torture to keep her woman under control. It's easy seeing this film to tell that it was never meant to be an Ilsa movie and the biggest difference is that this film is actually fun to watch. The two previous, and official, Ilsa movies were just mean spirited exploitation but in Franco's hands this turns into a fun exploitation movie that has plenty of naked women, weird sex scenes and even more bizarre torture sequences. The most memorable thing about the movie is of course Thorne who still looked great at this point in her career and you can tell she's having a lot of fun going through the routines of the wicked warden. The supporting cast is full of Franco regulars including the director himself, Lina Roman and Eric Fauk. While Thorne plays is pretty straight-forward, Romay on the other hand gets to go all out and deliver a campy, funny performance. She's off the wall in her ability to be abused as well as to abuse others and adds a lot of fun to the film. The movie isn't among Franco's best WIP films, that honor belongs to BARBED WIRE DOLLS, but this here remains fun for what it is.

MARIO GAUCI Today, I watched another 2 Jess Franco titles from the Anchor Bay UK 8-Disc Set (which I rented from my local DVD outlet): ILSA, THE WICKED WARDEN (1977) and JACK THE RIPPER*** (1976).Though I wouldn't say that ILSA is exactly a good film, I was still quite surprised by how it managed to hold my interest throughout. Not that it made particularly inspired use of the various subtexts suggested in the script (the snuff movie angle, for instance, is not dealt with in any depth) – apart from its over-the-top, and undeniably horrific, conclusion – but it was certainly above-average for an Erwin C. Dietrich production with adequate scenery, an evocative if repetitive score and competent performances. The dialogue of the German-language version, however, was pretty hilarious (the various odes to Greta/Ilsa recited by the inmates, the sanitation officials who arrive for a surprise inspection complaining that the rumors of the supposedly corrupt management inside the prison are unfounded – for obvious reasons, they may not have been taken to see the dungeons where the female convicts are tortured, but did they even question themselves why these were forbidden the use of underwear while serving their sentence?!); still, the English dubbing (heard during the interview section of the supplements) makes it sound even worse!I haven't seen the 'original' Ilsa films but, while Dyanne Thorne seemed to be relatively at ease inhabiting the Jess Franco movieworld, I also feel that her character was pretty one-dimensional and not really the main focus of the film; Lina Romay, on the other hand, has a lot of fun with one of her better roles; even Tania Busselier (in her third and last film for Franco) seems to have matured somewhat and here makes for a creditable heroine (for whom Franco boldly reserves an unexpected tragic fate, though this was perhaps done so as not to involve her in the film's cannibalistic climax).Unfortunately, this edition was cut by more than 2 minutes by the BBFC: the death-by-asphyxiation of Rosa Philips was evidently trimmed as it now occurs in a split-second; I may be wrong but I reckon that the remainder of the censored footage involved the lobotomy performed on the Tania Busselier character (did they even show this?) as her sudden appearance as a 'vegetable' is most jarring…Anyway, I look forward now to renting and watching another of Franco's notorious 'Women-In-Prison' films for Dietrich, namely BARBED WIRE DOLLS (1975).