Ilsa, The Wicked Warden 4K Blu-ray
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Posted February 11, 2026 11:40 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming 4K Blu-ray release of Jess Franco's Ilsa, The Wicked Warden (1977), starring Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay, Tania Busselier, Eric Falk, and Angela Ritschard. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on April 28.
Description: The final installment of the controversial Ilsa saga finds the former accomplice of Nazis, Stalinists, and oil barons now operating a psychiatric clinic in an unnamed Latin American country, where political prisoners are tortured. A young woman (Tania Busselier) has herself committed in order to locate her captive sister, but quickly realizes she has entered a hell of sexploitation from which she cannot escape. Dyanne Thorne plays Ilsa to camp excess but it is the ingenue, Lina Romay (Female Vampire), who steals the show as Ilsa's pet prisoner, a woman who withstands Ilsa's abuse and manipulates her fellow prisoners, doing anything to stay alive long enough to turn the tables on cinema's most diabolical villainess.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE - 4K BLU-RAY
Description: The final installment of the controversial Ilsa saga finds the former accomplice of Nazis, Stalinists, and oil barons now operating a psychiatric clinic in an unnamed Latin American country, where political prisoners are tortured. A young woman (Tania Busselier) has herself committed in order to locate her captive sister, but quickly realizes she has entered a hell of sexploitation from which she cannot escape. Dyanne Thorne plays Ilsa to camp excess but it is the ingenue, Lina Romay (Female Vampire), who steals the show as Ilsa's pet prisoner, a woman who withstands Ilsa's abuse and manipulates her fellow prisoners, doing anything to stay alive long enough to turn the tables on cinema's most diabolical villainess.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE - 4K BLU-RAY
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- NEW Audio Commentary by critic Troy Howarth
- Audio Commentary by Actors Dyanne Thorne and Howard Maurer, Moderated by Humorist Martin Lewis
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- NEW Audio Commentary by critic Troy Howarth
- NEW A Thorne by Any Other Name: Stephen Thrower on Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
- Uh-Oh...It's ILSA! Part Two of a Sidebar Conversation with novelist and critic Tim Lucas and author and critic Stephen R. Bissette
- Audio Commentary by Actors Dyanne Thorne and Howard Maurer, Moderated by Humorist Martin Lewis
- Vintage Promotional Short Featuring Interviews with Director Jess Franco and Producer Erwin C. Dietrich
- Gallery of Artwork and Stills
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
- Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase and Reversible Art
