Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) - Edmonds' notorious Nazisploitation sensation

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Promises of sensational sex and violence feature prominently on this no-holds-barred exploitative poster for Don Edmonds' Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

In SS commandant Ilse's small concentration camp in Nazi-era Germany, women are rotting their lives away or getting trained in pain to be prepared as prostitute slaves for the German soldiers, while the male prisoners are used - and castrated. But a rebellion smoulders ...

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is written by Jonah Royston (The Starlost (1973, TV-series)) and John C.W. Saxton (Blackout (1978)) and directed by Don Edmonds (Wild Honey (1972)).

This sensationalistic and entirely sleazy and tasteless film is elevated by good camera-work (cinematography by Glenn Roland (First Strike (1984))) and a thoroughly sadistic performance by Dyanne Thorne (Hellhole (1985)) as the title character. The story is titillating (for the right audience) and the tension builds slowly despite possible confusion as to who is supposed to be the 'hero' of the tale.

 

 

Watch a clip from the film here

 

Cost: Unknown, projected 100k $

Box office: Unknown, projected 5 mil. $

= Uncertain but likely a mega-hit (projected return of 50 times its cost)

[Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS premiered in January (Boston) and runs 96 minutes. The story is loosely inspired by the Buchenwald camp commander's wife Ilse Koch, who was imprisoned following WWII for her crimes. Shooting took place in Los Angeles, California on the left-over set from Hogan's Heroes (1965-71), which the production was allowed to use on the condition that they demolish it after. The film was released to derisive reviews, bans in Australia, Germany and Norway, - and thunderous audience interest. Regrettably the gross numbers are not public information, but they were likely huge: The film sold 186,204 tickets in the small market of Denmark, one of its relatively few markets, coming to approximately 400k $. It may well have grossed more than 5 mil. $. It inspired three sequels, all with Thorne, and none that logically made sense in relation to each other, the first one being Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), which was Edmonds' return. Thorne first returned in The Swinging Barmaids (1975). Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is rotten at 36 % with a 4.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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The Inglorious Bastards/Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (1978) - Castellari's WWII exploitation charmer

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Nude women, explosions, war machinery and macho violence is vividly promised on this self-tooting poster for Enzo G. Castellari's The Inglorious Bastards

A small group of captured American soldiers are on their way to execution in France in 1944, when a flat tire allows them to alter their trajectory: Towards freedom in Switzerland, killing as many 'krauts' on their way as possible!

 

The Inglorious Bastards is written by Sandro Continenza (Sbirulino (1982)), Sergio Grieco (Il Sergente Klems (1971)), Franco Marotta (Lucia (2005, TV movie)), Romano Migliorini (Bandidos (1967)) and Laura Toscano (De Moda (2004-05)), with Alberto Piferi (Salomé (1986)) contributing dialog, and directed by Enzo G. Castellari (Payment in Blood/7 Winchester per un Massacro (1967)). The original Italian title translates to 'that damned armored train'.

How this many individuals could have written this film together is just one of the incredible things about it. The story is generally not the easiest to relate. 

Bo Svenson (Icarus (2010)) plays the 'bastards'' alpha leader, and he does so with a rapscallion charm, which really permeates the entire group, despite the dire war that they find themselves in. This is all part of the fun and ruckus, with plenty of gunpowder and bullets, and Italian film tricks of the era. The Inglorious Bastards is a real charmer.

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: Unknown

= Uncertain

[The Inglorious Bastards was released 8 February (Italy) and runs 99 minutes. Shooting took place in Italy, including in Rome. The production reportedly suffered the trouble of having all of their weapons seized by the authorities halfway through production, due to the Italian Prime Minister's recent kidnapping and murder by the Red Brigade terrorists. New blank-fire prop weapons had to be created fast for the completion of the film. Details concerning the film's budget and box office performance are regrettably not online, but it was widely released in Europe and sold impressive 62k tickets in the small market Denmark, (approximately 453k $), indicating that it was likely a hit. It is not listed as having had a North-American release until 1981. Quentin Tarantino bought the rights to remake the film, although he only reused the title for his Inglorious Basterds (2009). Castellari returned with Sensività (1979). Svenson returned in Il Figlio dello Sceicco (1978); Fred Williamson (Boss Nigger (1974)) in 6 TV credits prior to his theatrical return in Il Cappotto di Legno (1981). 10k+ IMDb users have given The Inglorious Bastards a 6.5/10 average rating.]

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Gestapo's Last Orgy/L'ultima Orgia del III Reich (1977) - The ultimate Nazisploitation trash

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Several lascivious scenes from the film are teased on this Italian poster for Cesari Canevari's Gestapo's Last Orgy

 

A WWII Nazi concentration camp leader runs a camp, where Jewish women are broken down, abused and killed, is astonished at the prisoner Lisa, who is seemingly impossible to illicit a reaction from. Their S&M relationship develops fatally.

 

Gestapo's Last Orgy is written by Antonio Lucarella (The Nude Princess/La Principessa Nuda (1976)) and co-writer/director Cesari Canevari (Per un Dollaro a Tucson si Muore (1964)).

It is a film that left me completely cold. It seems impossible to be aroused by this Nazi exploitation horror in any way, and certainly impossible to care for. The most depraved about it actually isn't that it uses the Nazi era as a pretense to launch several more or less sensational agony and death scenes, - this, of course, was the staple in the Nazi exploitation sub-genre, - but that it stages the concentration camp life with a horny enthusiasm as a piquant sexual experiment, which wasn't all that terrible for the Jewish women. - At least they seem fairly passive in many of the scenes, such as the orgy scene, which, like the rest of the film, is unsensational in a dull way.

Gestapo's Last Orgy doesn't embrace its own inherent lowness, as for instance the much superior Ilse: She Wolf of the SS (1975), but it attempts quite a lot and appears to actually consider itself respectable to some degree. - Which only makes it worse.
 

 

Hear the main theme from the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: Unknown

= Uncertain

[Gestapo's Last Orgy premiered 31 January (Italy) and runs 92 minutes. Hardcore sex scenes were reportedly shot but subsequently cut out. The cost and theatrical performance of the film is regrettably not recorded online. The film was labeled as a 'video nasty' in the UK and has never been officially released there: It received its most recent denial of a DVD certificate by the British censorship organ the BBFC in January 2021. Canavari returned with Killing of the Flesh/Delitto Carnale (1983). 1,183 IMDb users have given Gestapo's Last Orgy a 4.3/10 average rating.]

 

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The Green Inferno (2015) - Roth - of course - exhumes cannibal horror

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A snarling native Amazonian indigenous man with questionable teeth look positively fearsome on this poster for Eli Roth's The Green Inferno

A searching female graduate student from New York joins an idealistic group of activists, who venture to the Amazon jungle to save an indigenous tribe and some trees from the pending destruction of modern civilization. But the world isn't as they think.

 

The Green Inferno is written by Guillermo Amoedo (Que Pena Tu Vida (2010)) and great Massachusett co-writer/cp-producer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever (2002)).

Instead of the direct homage to the cannibal horror subgenre of the 1980s that one may have expected, Roth creates his own entry in the long-dead discipline, effectively unearthing it for a show: He builds a good, very entertaining story around a group of more or less insufferable idealists, (several of whom Roth humorously give Spanish accents.) A lot of typically Rothian, cynicial fun springs from the underlying misanthropy. And the film never pauses or gets dull, which is a feat.

No doubt there is something amoral about the very creation of films like The Green Inferno, (although it may have been more pronounced in the 80s, when real animal slayings were also integral to the cannibal movies,) but it seems fitting for an exploitation movie, which is supposed to be on the border region of what is moral (and not too concerned about stepping over that border.)

The protagonist Justine is played well by Lorenza Izzo (Feed the Beast (2016, TV-series)), SPOILER who in the end prefers to fall back on the tit of political correctness rather than inform the worldviews of the ever-'correct' New-York class with the actual, revolutionizing facts of her trip (about the savage tribesmen.) Richard Burgi (Hostel: Part II (2007)) garnishes in a small part.

Unfortunately the film's photography (by Antonio Quercia (No Filter/Sin Filtro (2016))) and aesthetics are not too exciting, just very contemporary, and another criticism: Ugly CGI-mega-ants instead of a male castration scene or another classic bestiality just isn't okay, Roth!

 

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Roth gives a five-minute interview about the movie here

Cost: 5 mil. $

Box office: 12.6 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 2.52 times the cost)

[The Green Inferno premiered 8 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 100 minutes. The film is especially inspired by Ruggero Deodato's masterpiece Cannibal Holocaust (1980), which has a film within the film titled The Green Inferno. Shooting took place from November - December 2012 in Peru, Santiago, Chile and in New York. The film opened #9 to a 3.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 7.1 mil. $ (56.3 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Russia with 3.8 mil. $ (30.2 %) and Italy with 686k $ (5.4 %). The film was met with praise from horror writer maestro Stephen King and condemnation from indigenous peoples activist group Survival International. A sequel was announced but has not materialized. Roth returned with Knock Knock (2015). Izzo returned in I Am Victor (2013, TV movie) and theatrically in The Stranger (2014). The Green Inferno is rotten at 38 % with a 4.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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God's Gun/Diamante Lobo (1976) - Van Cleef/Garrett pair for revenge in trashy Italo-Israeli delight

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Lee Van Cleef strangely seems to be wearing a shiny diamont earring on this beautifully painted poster for Gianfranco Parolini's God's Gun

A priest is murdered by a ruthless thug, but his twin brother will come to take his revenge!

God's Gun is written by John Fonseca (The Great Adventure/Il Richiamo del Lupo (1975)) and co-writer/director Gianfranco Parolini (The Old Testament/Il Vecchio Testamento (1962)).
It is an entertaining and well-paced b-picture western that's also semi-exploitation; it has several shoot-outs, hot ladies and elaborate rape scenes. It also has a cool Lee Van Cleef (The Perfect Killer/Quel Pomeriggio Maledetto (1977)) in the dual twin brother roles, Jack Palance (Young Guns (1988)) as the heavy and the unusually pretty (at the time) Leif Garrett (The Next Tenant (1998)) as the boy Johnny, who helps the justified vengeance along. Also with a 'ghost' duplicity plan, which is well thought up.
Dragging down God's Gun are involuntarily funny scenes, primitive effects and a monotone photographic expression that relies on zooms in just about every second scene!

Listen to the film's theme in a video here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain
[God's Gun was released in Italy some time in 1976 and runs 94 minutes. Shooting took place in Israel. Sybil Danning, who plays Johnny's mother, was only 9 years older than him. Richard Boone left the film drunk and in poor health, before he had done his dub, (which was then completed by another actor), later calling the film "the worst picture ever made", as he derided its producer and director to an American reporter. The film was released in North America and at least 7 European markets, but its performance and budget is regrettably not known. It has apparently fallen into public domain and can be seen and downloaded free and legally here. Parolini returned with Giant of the 20th Century/Yeti - Il Gigante del 20° Secolo (1977). Van Cleef returned in Vengeance/Kid Vengeance (1977); Palance in Welcome to Blood City (1977). 1,182 IMDb users have given God's Gun an average 5.1/10 rating.]

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Flesh Feast (1970) - Veronica Lake's madcap maggot exploitation swansong

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An appropriately ghastly, sensational poster for Brad F. Grinter's Flesh Feast

Two villainous doctors conduct dubious science with maggots and stolen corpses in a cellar laboratory with the aim of rejuvenating an expat top Nazi! - Yikes!

Flesh Feast is written by Thomas Casey (Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)), who also photographed the film, and co-writer/co-producer/director Brad F. Grinter (Blood Freak (1972)). It is a schlocky, ultra-cheap grade Z film, - but it has a certain attraction, if you approach it with low expectations, (or none.)
Psychedelic elements and hot ladies are combined with maggots, dangling, putrefying body parts and former major Hollywood star Veronica Lake (Sullivan's Travels (1941)), whose infamous last film this is, (she even co-produced it.) She plays a grotesque part, which she nevertheless pitches into full throttle. Lake seems genuinely mad in Flesh Feast.
The script is almost terrible, and the film bores in stretches. SPOILER Its Hitler/maggot end scene has to be seen to be believed!

Watch a short trailer for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain
[Flesh Feast was released 20 May (USA) and runs 72 minutes. Shooting took place in Miami Beach, Florida on a tiny budget. Rice was used to pass off as a sea of maggots in closeup shots. Despite its R rating, it was shown with 'GP' and 'PG' ratings printed on it in parts of the US, where it also continued playing on double and triple bills all the way up to 1983, likely accruing a very healthy gross over the years. Grinter returned with Devil Rider! (1970). Lake never acted again and died from hepatitis at age 50 in 1973. 513 IMDb users have given Flesh Feast an average 2.2/10 rating.]

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Hostel: Part II (2007) - Roth's return to Eastern Europe is a wicked horror blast

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+ Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Gore Movie of the Year + Best Exploitation Movie of the Year + Best Comeback Actress of the Year: Heather Matarazzo 

Heather Matarazzo is caught upside down in an undeniably terrifying state of helplessness on this appropriately nasty poster for Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II

3 young women are lured to take a detour on their European interrail vacation from Rome to Slovakia, where they become victims of a clandestine society of upper class torture and murder patrons.

Hostel: Part II is written and directed by great Bostonian filmmaker Eli Roth (Cabin Fever (2002)), a sequel to his thrilling Hostel (2005), in which three male tourists experience the same type of grueling reception in Eastern Europe. Part II tops the wicked first film as an evil, grim and staggering work of exploitation horror.
Although the film by no definition of the word could be said to have a star cast, it does have a super cast: Stand-outs are Heather Matarazzo (Scream 3 (2000)), SPOILER whose death by scythe must rate as among the sickest movie death scenes in recent history, - unforgettably sadistic, - and Richard Burgi (Fatal Instinct (2014)) as a grotesque businessman. Horror fans will also appreciate Italian master filmmaker Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust (1980)) in a cameo as an Italian cannibal, naturally.
Hostel: Part II is a refreshingly inhumane, hardcore gore horror classic.

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Watch a terrific teaser for the film, introduced by Eli Roth SPOILER from the set of Matarazzo's death scene here

Cost: 10.2 mil. $
Box office: 35.6 mil. $ 
= Box office success (3.49 times the cost)
[Hostel: Part II premiered 7 June (Australia, Argentina and Slovakia) and runs 94 minutes. Shooting took place in Iceland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, including Prague, and Monaco from November 2006 - January 2007. SPOILER Bijou Phillips (Black Limousine (2010)) has explained that her scalping death scene required around 45 camera setups, and that her experience on the film made her lose interest for doing more horror. SPOILER Matarazzo completed the shooting of her upside down nude death scene without a stand-in, hanging for 5 minute intervals during the two days the scene was shot. The film opened and peaked #6 to an 8.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, (less than half of the first film's #1 19.5 mil. $ opening), grossing 17.6 mil. $ (49.4 % of the total gross). The film's 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 3.5 mil. $ (9.8 %) and Germany with 2.1 mil. $ (5.9 %). The release encountered resistance of many types: Its meat-themed poster above was removed from US theaters after complaints. It was released cut in Germany, Singapore and Malaysia and banned outright in New Zealand. In UK's House of Commons in 2007, having stills from the film was cited as illegal, an offense of 'extreme pornography'. Worst for the film; a pirate version of it leaked online days before the release and was downloaded millions of times, which Roth blamed for the less impressive box office, compared to the first film's 80.5 mil. $ world gross. Roth returned with short Stolz der Nation (2009), featured a clip of in Inglorious Basterds (2009), which Roth also co-starred in, and with an episode of Hemlock Grove (2013, TV-series), which he also executive produced (2013-15), before he returned theatrically with The Green Inferno (2013). Hostel: Part III (2011) by Scott Spiegel was the much inferior straight-to-DVD so far last film in the Hostel franchise. Hostel: Part II is rotten at 44 % with a 5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - Meyer's thrill-tastic outlaw masterpiece

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A racy, sensationalistic, screamingly naughty poster for Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Three go-go dancers race-drive in the desert, where they meet a young couple. The leader of the dancers, Varla murders the guy and kidnaps the girl. The group wind up at the home of some maniacs with money, and a true blood bath unfolds!

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is written by Jackie Moran (Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962)), with Californian master co-writer-director Russ Meyer (The Seven Minutes (1971)) contributing story elements. It was Meyer's 9th theatrical fiction feature.
This movie simply exceeds the usual bar of awesomeness by miles. It has to be experienced, and even then its wild, renegade thrills are stupefying.
The scruffy, dirty jazz and rock that fills out the film's soundscape fits perfectly with the insane, overstrung dialog and characters. Tura Satana (Irma la Douce (1963)) is mean and badass as Varla, and Meyer and Charles G. Schelling (The Black Cat (1966)) has cut the film to perfection.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is the epitome of a cult film and a subversive treat that continues to spread its wicked fun.

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Watch Meyer speak shortly about his career in an interview here

Cost: 45k $
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain - but appears to have been an initial-flop-later-hit
[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was released 6 August (USA) and runs 83 minutes. The title was changed from The Leather Girls to The Mankillers to its final title, which sound editor Richard S. Brummer came up with. Meyer has stated that it signifies a film that has everything: Speed (faster), sex (pussycat) and violence (kill! kill!). The film was shot on B/W due to its low budget. Susan Bernard was just 16 at the time, couldn't drive and was afraid of Satana. Her mother was present during shooting, which took place in California. The fights include real hair-pulling and throwing sand in the face. The film was released on a double bill with Mudhoney (1965), also directed by Meyer, in North America, and the only other listed market is West Germany in 1967, prior to re-releases, beginning in the 90s. Reports on its performance differ; it seemed to have flopped initially, but become profitable over time, as it has become a cult item. It made 36k $ in its 1995 US re-release. Satana returned as an uncredited stripper in Our Man Flint (1966). Meyer returned with Motorpsycho! (1965). Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is fresh at 74 % with a 7/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Inglourious Basterds (2009) - The Movies take revenge on Nazi scum

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The stars stand out on the stylish poster for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

A group of Jewish American soldiers known as the Basterds and a Jewish French cinema owner, who has had her family obliterated by the Nazis, join forces to blow up her cinema at the night when it will contain Hitler, Goebbels and more top Nazi leaders.

Inglourious Basterds is the 8th feature from Tennessean master writer-director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction (1994)). It is his first major film, (that is, not counting his first, My Best Friend's Birthday (1987), which I have yet to see), which I at first viewing thought was a bad movie. On second viewing I have revised this opinion some, though I still can't profess to really like this war dramedy exploitation escapade that puts a fictional end to the Nazis of WWII, and I will definitely still call it overrated.
Brad Pitt (Babel (2006)) is good as Basterd leader, lieutenant Aldo Raine, and he is featured in most of the film's funny moments. The title of the film is a reference to Enzo G. Castellari's The Inglorious Bastards/Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (1978), but Inglourious Basterds is not a remake of the latter film, and the strange title, which deliberately contains two spelling mistakes (an extra u in inglorious and an e instead of an a in bastards) may be a way of setting the newer film aside from Castellari's, or of securing it against any copyright liability in connection with the older film.
Inglourious Basterds has some good ideas in it but is terribly overlong and demonstratively pompous. Christoph Waltz (Our God's Brother (1997)) won his first Oscar for his energetic, endlessly aggravating performance as psychopath pedant colonel Hans Landa. Co-starring actor-filmmaker Eli Roth (Rock of Ages (2012)) directed the Nation's Pride propaganda film in Inglourious Basterds.
Tarantino's wrestling with WWII is opulent, enjoyable, bloated and tense.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 70 mil. $
Box office: 321.4 mil. $
= Big hit
[Inglourious Basterds premiered 20 May (Cannes) and runs 153 minutes. Tarantino wrote the first script in 1998 but struggled with the film's ending and made Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Death Proof (2007) and other smaller projects in the meantime, believing that Inglourious Basterds would be a masterpiece. Casting the previously widely unknown Austrian-German actor Waltz, Tarantino has said, "gave me my movie." Shooting took place from October 2008 - February 2009 in Paris, France and in Germany, including in Brandenburg's Studio Babelsberg. SPOILER Tarantino has stated that he used his own hands in the scene where Diane Kruger (Mr. Nobody (2009)) gets strangled. The final draft script for the film was leaked online prior to the film's release. Promotion of the film in Germany required digitally altering posters to remove the swastikas, which are illegal to flaunt in public but allowed in works of art such as in the film itself. The film opened #1 to a 38 mil. $ first weekend in North America, Tarantino's best opening up to that point. It spent 5 consecutive weeks in the top 5 (#1-#2-#2-#2-#3) there and grossed 120.5 mil. $ (37.5 % of the total gross). The film also did terrific business abroad; its 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were France with 24.9 mil. $ (7.7 %) and Germany with 23.5 mil. $ (7.3 %). It became Tarantino's highest-grossing film until beaten by his next, Django Unchained (2012). Roger Ebert gave the film a 4/4 star rating, translating to two notches higher than this review. The film was nominated for 8 Oscars, winning one for Waltz as Best Supporting Actor. It lost Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Sound Mixing, Editing and Sound Editing to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Cinematography to James Cameron's masterpiece Avatar. It was also nominated for 4 Golden Globes, winning one, 6 BAFTAs, winning one; it won Waltz the Best Actor award in Cannes, a David di Donatello award, was one of National Board of Review's Top 10 Films of the Year, along with many other awards and honors. Inglourious Basterds is certified fresh at 89 % with a 7.8 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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