La bestia in calore (1977)
Also Known As:
Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days (USA) (dubbed version)
SS Experiment Part 2 (USA)
SS Hell Camp (USA)
The Beast in Heat
Director:
Luigi Batzella
Writers:
Lorenzo Artale (dialogue)
Luigi Batzella (writer)
Release Date:
19 July 1977 (Italy)
Genre:
Horror | Thriller | War
Tagline:
Your Days Are Numbered
Plot:
This is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities
Plot Keywords:
Nazi | Nudity | SS | Atrocity | Sex
User Comments:
Pretty sick exploitation film.
Cast
(Credited cast)
Macha Magall ... Dr. Ellen Kratsch
Gino Turini ... Drago (as John Braun)
Edilio Kim ... Captain Hardinghauser (as Kim Gatti)
Xiro Papas ... Lupo (as Xiros Papas)
Salvatore Baccaro ... The Beast (as Sal Boris)
The Italians always maintained a hard-on for remodelling hits, and with the advent of German concentration camp films (Nazploitationers) such as Love Camp 7 (1967) and the more successful Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974) the celluloid phallus was violently caressed until it ejaculated into a gas chamber full of copycat spawn. These were mostly made by Italian filmmakers with the desire to shock and titillate, relying on sensationalism by money and success hungry production companies who seemed to have as much conscience as ol' Adolf had love for the Jews.
Before this Shriek Show release SS Hell Camp (or the The Beast in Heat as it is more widely know) proved to be quite obscure, and as well as earning itself a spot on the infamous British video nasties list it also brought in a small fortune among collectors and the depraved alike, where copies would go for anywhere up to 600 hundred bucks Australian .The film is also quite perverse and it has been noted at one stage the majority of the cast and crew had wanted their names removed. Welcome to The Beast in Heat/ La Bestia in Calore, or in another of it's alternate names that seems more fitting, Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days.
The story itself is standard fare about an Ilsa Koche like character called Dr. Krash (played by Macha Magall). Dr. Krash, like Ilsa, is a dominant, buxom, whip cracking blonde, who is just as of fond of filling her crack as advancing the white race by conducting bizarre experiments. One of the results of her latest experiment is a grotesque, libido boosted, Neanderthal fuck machine to whom she feeds nubile young virgins to satisfy his hungers. How this will further the Germans war efforts is beyond me. Anyway Salvatore Baccaro (aka Sal Boris who also plays "Oook" in Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks) is the Beast in question, and he hams it up in great fashion. Sal, who also goes under the name Boris Lugosi (a composite of two great screen fiends) is a Michael Berryman type actor, cast for his looks which only a mother could love. Apart from bonkin Sal Boris the rest of the film consists of a flimsy plot about Partisan resistance attempts to hide and conceal info from the Nazi's.
English Dubbed:
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