Greta, the Mad Butcher

Greta, the Mad Butcher (1977)

Greta - Haus ohne Männer

Once commited to her care, You'll be too terrified to die!.. You'll choke with fear!.. Recoil in horror from her unleashed fury!..

A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the disappearance of her sister, a former patient. Meanwhile, the hospital warden and her attendants abuse and torture their charges, forcing them to star in cheap skinflicks.

Date of release
1977-01-21
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (93)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Horror, Drama
Director
Jesús Franco

Casting

Interesting facts

Ilsa the Wicked Warden is a 1977 Swiss-Canadian sexploitation women-in-prison film directed by Jess Franco, written by Ric Meyers, and starring Dyanne Thorne as Greta. The plot follows Greta, a warden at a psychiatric hospital for young women, and a girl portrayed by Tania Busselier, who feigns illness in order to investigate the disappearance of her sister, a former patient.

Development

After completing work on Jack the Ripper (1976), producer Erwin C. Dietrich allowed director Jesús Franco more freedom on his next film which went into development as No Man's Land. Dietrich gave Franco more freedom due Frauengefängnis (1976) becoming a major hit for the producer and the overall quality of work done with Jack the Ripper.

Ilsa the Wicked Warden was Franco’s second women-in-prison film for Dietrich, after Frauengefängnis. Ilsa the Wicked Warden was a co-production between the Swiss company Elite Film AG and the Canadian company Aetas Film Production. The film was shot in Portugal between August 17 and September 1976. Exterior shots were lensed in August 1976 in Sintra, Portugal.

The films leading actress was Dyanne Thorne, who became known for her role of the warden Ilsa in the films Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974), Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), and Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977). Describing her celebrity factor at the time, Franco biographer Stephen Thrower said that mainstream coverage of Thorne's films were "virtually nonexistent, but anyone who walked through Times Square between 1973 and 1982 pro…

In his biography of Franco, Stephen Thrower said that Thorne's character "Greta" was basically identical to Ilsa, while still nominally being a new character. The film only received its name-relation with the Ilsa films when distributed in the United States theatrically and on home video.

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