Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977)

Just so...so bad

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Another Ilsa film, if you've made it this far in the series then its probably safe to say you are a fan and Ilsa: Tigress Of Siberia will not disappoint. The movie is similar to the other two in that Ilsa is in charge of a group of improsened people and tortures them and has lots of sex. Unexpectedly the movie makes a bit of a switch near the middle of the film and the tone is changed yet quickly gets back to regular old ilsa business. If im not mistaken this movie seemed to have the most nude scenes of Dyanne Thorne and some of the most graphic sex we've seen her in. Like her first sex scene where she takes on some double penatration from two guys at the same time, and its not the only time she does it either. Another sexy scene was the scene of her taking a shower, hot danm. The kills and torture were also pretty good, the tiger in the pit was nice and gruesome as was the penis getting bit off. I also liked the part where the guy got caught on the barbed wire fence and they torched his corpse after while it was hanging there as well as the multiple times people got impaled on wodden spikes. Also note worthy would be the badass scene of arm wrestling over chainsaws and the line the victor spouts out afterwards is priceless. I'd still say this is my third favorite ilsa film wihch isn't a bad thing because She wolf and Harem sheek were both pretty bad ass. Tigress of Siberia lives up the Ilsa name and serves up plenty of torture, sex, and gruesome death scenes as well as continueing to make Dyanne Thorne look sexy as hell in a uniform.

This was an excellent film. Later I saw the others, and I still like this one the best. It was different. You end up clapping and cheering for the KGB when they come in like the cavalry in an old western. That was different. Saw this as a second feature, we went to see the other movie, and ended up seeing this one too. This was far better than the other movie, "It's not the size that counts", which had James Bond's M, Bernard Lee.This movie has action, shoot outs, chases, gory deaths, sex, and some tense situations. Watching it again, 20 years later on VHS, was not as good as in the theater. But it is still a good movie.

I don't see what the big deal is here...Almost all the other reviewers seem to hate this film, and I don't really get it. After the goofy, uninspired HAREM KEEPER, and the pretty dull sleaze-fest WICKED WARDEN, I was pleasantly surprised with TIGRESS. It's no masterpiece by any means, but this one had some inventive torture and a decent amount of tits-and-ass. This one has the mammoth-mounded Ilsa playing baby-sitter to a bunch of Russian traitors in the first half of the film, and a Canadian whorehouse madam in the second half. Yes, the story is definitely a little disjointed, almost playing like 2 different films, but I think this one had a good balance between sex and gore, and enough sleazy humor to make it an all-around worthwhile and entertaining entry. Definitely worth checking out if you like the series (or sleazy exploit cinema in general), but you may have a hard time finding it - I don't believe that there is a DVD release as of yet (at least not in the States), so start scouring those old mom-and-pop video stores. Regardless of what the other guys say, I like this one - 8/10

I loved the other three, but it's easy to see why Jess Franco's Ilsa the Wicked Warden was picked as the third movie in the trilogy, and this one was forgotten. Nowhere near as shocking as any of the others. The best part of the movie is the starting when they're actually in Siberia (most of the movie takes place in like Canada or something). The deaths at the Siberian camp are entertaining, but the chainsaw/arm-wrestling scenes is cut under the title, The Tigress. Over all its a pretty boring action movie.