La Bestia in Calore
| La Bestia in Calore (The Beast in Heat) | |
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| Directed by | Luigi Batzella |
| Produced by | Xiro Papas |
| Written by |
Luigi Batzella Lorenzo Artale |
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Gino Turini Macha Magall Edilio Kim Salvatore Baccaro Xiros Papas Brad Harris |
| Music by | Giuliano Sorgini |
| Cinematography | Ugo Brunelli |
| Edited by | Luigi Batzella |
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86 Minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
La Bestia in Calore/The Beast in Heat (also known as SS Hell Camp and SS Experiment 2 and Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days) is an Italian exploitation film released in 1977. Directed by Luigi Batzella and written by Batzella and Lorenzo Artale, it gained notoriety when it was banned in the UK as a video nasty. This is one of many so-called video nasties about fictionalized World War II Nazi POW camp atrocities. The film is currently banned in Australia due to offensive depictions of sexual violence and extreme impact violence throughout. The film is also currently banned in the UK as well.
A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, incubus-like mutant human beast (half man/half beast). The beast is a rapacious, squat, sex fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while the Nazis watch. The dwarfish beast is kept on a diet of mega-aphrodisiacs. In addition to the beast, the prisoners (male and female) are stripped naked and forced to endure group interrogations, electric shocks, systematic rape, and beatings. In the meantime a group of Italian partisans from the local village are preparing to attack the Nazi camp.
The film duplicates the formula of the surprise hit Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974) and its sequels, which popularized the Nazi exploitation subgenre (particularly in Italian cinema). Macha Magall's sexy yet cruel SS dominatrix is clearly patterned after the titular Ilsa character (played by Dyanne Thorne in all three Ilsa movies), though Magall is less statuesque. Salvatore Baccaro, who plays the Beast, had previously played a similar (though much briefer) role as a bestial prison inmate in Salon Kitty (1976).
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