Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

slayrrr666 "Salon Kitty" is certainly a fine exploitation effort, if only a little long at times.**SPOILERS**At the start of WW II, Kitty Kellerman, (Ingrid Thulin) runs in the infamous Salon Kitty in the heart of Berlin, Germany. Soon, Helmut Wallenberg, (Helmut Berger) is installed as the leader of the SS in the area, and takes an extreme interest in the special studio. Recruiting a special selection of women from Germany, he selects them to be prostitutes in the Salon, putting them through a rigorous process that will determine whether they will actually go into service there. After going through the process, Margherita, (Teresa Ann Savoy) manages to gain employment and is soon apart of the burlesque show it puts up as a front. When she starts to develop a friendship with Nazi officer Biondo, (John Steiner) they talk of leaving the order and striking out on their own. When he hears of their treachery and orders his execution, they all learn that the reason for the instituting the facility was to discover whether anyone within the Nazi regime would defect, and must now stand up to his tyranny within the order.The News: One of the biggest and most surprising aspects of the film is the unbridled and purely intentional sleaze on display. There is plenty of nudity, both male and female variants that are shown completely exposed, with lengthy scenes showcasing both in that state, as well as such scenes as close-ups of women shaving their privates or playing with men's privates, which are all the more disturbing. There's almost an obsession with the female rear-end here, as this one has a large amount throughout it. There's also a lot of twisted sexual fantasies re-enacted, featuring a scene where one goes down on a giant dildo made of bread, the prospective hookers having their eroticism tested by forcing them to sleep with hunchbacks, gypsies, and amputees, a giant orgy, actual hardcore masturbation, sex, and lesbianism. Mixed in with the nudity are plenty of scenes of simulated sex. The segment with the eroticism being tested is merely one of the single sleaziest scenes around, presented as a montage where they observe all the actions taking place with no regard for what's happening but just for the cause, and are very disturbing visuals. There's also an incredibly disturbing scene that works just as much for the nudity as what's suggested. As her charge barks orders at her, one of the women places the General's boots on her naked legs and goose-steps around her bedroom. The lights are struck and a single projector image crawls across the wall as scenes from a Nazi propaganda film play out. As the General continues his demands, the prostitute lays on her bed and lets the black-and-white images of Hitler and his Aryan nation wash over her. She does a seductive, serpent like set of poses and then breaks into the Nazi salute. The entire time, Brass keeps his camera firmly in a medium shot, so we can see the monochrome images of insanity projected upon the naked flesh tones of the actress. Even with all of the sleaze as possible, the behind-the-scenes technicians have all accomplished a real work of art. The various garish costumes of Madam Kitty and her girls all personify the 1930s and early 1940s perfectly, as does the superb set design, recalling the Art-Deco movement. Kitty indulges in a number of musical numbers, all summoning the spirit of the early musicals of the past and featuring a strange half-man half-woman makeup job, stylish lighting, and gay chorus boys dressed to the tee. It's appropriately over-the-top in it's decadence and gloriously enjoyable wonders. All of these, though, would be acceptable in a film that simply was either trimmed down or actually went somewhere. Though there's a semblance of a plot, it has far too much down-time to actually do anything with it, simply going along and merely just going from one scene to another with a dull expression, especially in the later half when there's little perversion to get in the way. That needed beefing up with sleaze or toned down considerably, as there's too much in here to take at the time. Had it been shortened, it would be as effective without the boredom.The Final Verdict: A strong, but just inherently dull art-house exploitation epic that will really divide most viewers instantly because of the subject matter. If this sounds like something that will appeal to you, you're a fan of the genre or just extreme films in general, give this one a real watch, otherwise ignore it.Rated UR/NC-17: Continuous Full Male and Female Nudity, strong sex scenes, Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and violence against animals

Jonny_Numb Of all the sordid, exploitative Nazi-era cash-ins that came out of the 1970s, "Salon Kitty" is one of the most regularly-mentioned titles. Director Tinto Brass (who, like Joe D'Amato, is more renowned for his porno epics) spends a great deal of time--arguably 3/4 of the film--garnishing the screen with images of decadent excess, including bizarre sex acts, deformed dwarfs, and copious nudity. Unfortunately, that's really all this shallow, 2-hours-plus venture has to offer. The story line--consisting of a young Nazi commandant (the underused Helmut Berger)'s attempt to seize power by eavesdropping on the SS patrons of the titular character's high-class brothel--would take up all of 30 minutes' screen time (and even that is a stretch) had the exploitation elements been removed. What we're left with, then, is a slickly-made trash pic with high production values, a good cast, and an insufferably drawn-out story (I challenge anyone to still give a damn by the time the film reaches its 'revelatory' crescendo); Brass's attempts at prurient titillation, an underdeveloped (and ultimately pointless) romantic subplot, and the fearless courage of icily unlikable prostitute Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy) fall completely flat, much to the film's detriment. While not as luridly exploitative as the "Ilsa" trilogy, nor as lethargically dull as Luchino Visconti's "The Damned," "Salon Kitty" never really manages the suspense, pathos, and passion that marked Liliana Cavani's superior 1974 post-Holocaust romance, "The Night Porter." It's a film that should have been much more than just a ponderously average pile of celluloid.

aussiebrisguy Salon Kitty is a rather disturbing film. It shows what can happen to a country when filth take over. There are many facets to this film especially the Nazi German notion of the pure aryan master race vs. the Jewish question. One of the most powerful sections of this film is where a terrified Jewish family come into contact with a group of revolting League of German Girls group. The little innocent child has accidentally dropped his toy. The League of German Girls leader rather than helping the child sees the terror in its eyes and with one foul stomp of her foot destroys the toy with her shoe, obtaining pleasure in the process, and the smugly walks on. This is a metaphor for what the Nazi German criminal regime has in store for the Jewish people of not only their own country but the rest of Europe. Ingrid Thulin is absolutely brilliant in this film as Madam Kitty, operator of the brothel, Salon Kitty. Helmut Berger is also very good in his role as the SS Officer who is charged with taking over Salon Kitty and turning it into a state run spying agency where specially trained aryan prostitutes submit reports after being with their clients on any betrayal of the Nazi regime. Downstairs in the cellars all conversations are being recorded. Madam Kitty is forced under pain of death to convert her brothel into an arm of the SS. The full horror of the lack of humanity of the SS is shown in the audition process the potential prostitutes go through where they are group tested with young SS officers. This is not a film for the light hearted. It treats human life as something not worth very much in the hands of a criminal regime.

Wizard-8 I'm not really sure what I was hoping for when I rented this movie, but I know I certainly wasn't hoping for what I got here. To be sure, the art direction is extremely good. And sure, there is gobs of nudity and sex almost bordering on hard-core. But despite all this, the movie is BORING, especially at the almost ungodly length of over 2 hours with the recently issued director's cut! While there is an interesting idea with the plot premise, it goes all over the place. Characters come then go offscreen for long periods of time so they aren't really developed, and the little plot there is would probably (at best) barely cover an hour if all the redundant footage was cut out. All the same, pretty amazing Germany would get involved in a coproduction of this nature, and I guess it might be considered an interesting footnote in that it served as a warm-up for Brass' equally bizarre later film CALIGULA.