Leofwine_draca ILSA, THE TIGRESS OF SIBERIA, is the third film in the ILSA series I've watched and my favourite yet. That's not to say I particularly enjoyed it, but I am pleased to report that it doesn't just focus on senseless and sleazy torture like the previous movies in this series. Instead, it has an actual plot for once, alongside action sequences to recommend it.The storyline sees Ilsa now working at a remote Siberian prison camp where the inmates are routinely abused and killed (including by a tiger in one memorable moment). She sets her sights on one particular Russian agent, but he manages to escape her clutches when the camp is overthrown. Later, Ilsa and her chums are holed up in Canada, where she once more runs into the agent she's obsessed with punishing.There are a few torture and gore scenes in this film but they're relatively tame and if not tame then at least unrealistic. Most of the film seems to have been devised as a softcore flick, with tons of sex scenes involving Dyanne Thorne in various states of undress. She's certainly an arresting beauty, and her charms just about carry the film, at least until an arresting shoot-out at the climax which is handled adroitly. ILSA, THE TIGRESS OF SIBERIA is no classic but at least it's less offensive than the previous outings and has a better story.

Uriah43 Like the proverbial cat with nine lives "Ilsa" (Dyanne Thorne) is back and she has returned to the vocation for which she is best qualified--as the warden of a Soviet prison in Siberia known as "Gulag 14". Further, considering that the year is 1953 and Joseph Stalin is the leader of the Soviet Union, Ilsa pretty much has a free hand to do whatever she wants to the prisoners. That said, true to her nature, that means this movie will consist of plenty of torture and brutality along with a few sex scenes involving the beautiful Dyanne Thorne. Unfortunately, unlike the previous two films in the series ("Ilsa, She-Wolf of this SS" and "Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks") none of these scenes were as polished as in the two preceding movies and as a result this particular motion picture failed to achieve the same standards. In my opinion, it was unnecessarily raw and sleazy and lacking in both eroticism and depth. I have rated the movie accordingly. Followed by the 4th (and last) film in the series, "Ilsa, The Wicked Warden".

john22900 Sick, sick, sick are the only words to describe this movie.Beside a nude Dyanne Thorne showing her huge lungwarts, there is absolutely nothing else to recommend this film at all.Of course, all the ILSA films were sick anyway. The worst offender by far was the uncut version of ILSA, THE WICKED WARDEN. It is difficult to ascertain which ILSA movie was the next sickest. In my opinion it is definitely a tie between ILSA, SHE WOLF OF THE SS and this film.ILSA, HAREM KEEPER OF THE ARAB OIL SHEIKS was the least offensive of the ILSA films but they all treaded the same general ground just to differing degrees of vulgarity.However, if you are an aficionado of sleaze cinema, these films are right up your alley but make sure you get only the uncut versions of each of them.

BA_Harrison In this, the last of the series, Ilsa is back in command of a prison camp—Gulag 14 in the frozen wastes of Siberia. It is 1953, and Stalin rules Russia with an iron fist; Ilsa's job is to reform political prisoners using every and any means necessary, and in between torturing and killing, she takes time out to have threesomes with the camp guards.Of course, in true Ilsa fashion, there is one particular inmate that piques her interest—the unbreakable Andrei Chikurin—and she makes it her mission to both brainwash him and bed him. She fails to do either, and just as she is about to feed him to a tiger, she learns that her beloved Stalin is dead and flees the scene, burning Gulag 14 to the ground to destroy any evidence of her crimes. Andrei crawls from the blazing camp as Ilsa escapes with her most trusted henchmen.The movie then fast forwards to Montreal ,1977. Andrei is now manager of the visiting Russian Olympic hockey team. He is talked into taking two of the players to a brothel (so that they can sample American women before returning home) which, unbeknownst to him, is owned by none other than his old adversary Ilsa. With the help of her Russian sidekicks, the busty bitch has been forcing local mob bosses to sign over their businesses before dumping them into a frozen lake, trapped inside metal drums. On spotting Andrei, Ilsa decides that she will finish the job she failed to do 24 years previously...The Siberian bound first half of the film is by far the best part of the film, since it allows Dyanne Thorne's busty sadist full reign to do what she does best: torture, maim and kill. She is one happy bunny hauling the men under ice, forcing them to arm-wrestle over running chain saws (a standout scene), feeding them to the tiger and impaling them on huge wooden stakes. This girl sure loves her work!! The only downside is that the camp is all male—I really missed the gratuitous 'naked babe' shower scenes.Fortunately, the second half of the film offers plenty of nudity and more than makes up for the lack of T&A in the first. What it does lack, however, is the sleaze factor; Ilsa's preferred method of torture in '77 is via a hi-tech computer (a laughably crap box with randomly flashing buttons) which pinpoints one's innermost fears and then projects holographic images of these 'terrors' into the room in which the prisoner is trapped. Call me old fashioned, but I like the traditional methods best.Whilst not quite up to the standards of the first two films, Tigress of the Siberia is well worth a look for fans of exploitation and there is plenty to be enjoyed.And what of Ilsa? She has to leave in a hurry when Russian special agents storm her stronghold; racing away on a snowmobile, she crashes, breaking her ankle. We leave her stranded in a frozen wasteland, unable to walk, burning her bags of money in order to keep warm as the sun drops below the horizon— what a great way to end the series!