The Beast in Heat (1977)

A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Macha Magall) creates a genetic, mutant human Beast (half man/half beast). The Beast is a rapacious, squat, mongoloid sex fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while the Nazis watch.This film really has no redeeming qualities. A knockoff of "Ilsa", it tries to up the ante with more torture, nudity and general excess. Arguably, it succeeds in this attempt, but that does not make it a better movie. Director Luigi Batzella offers nothing interesting, and even has to pad the 86 minutes with footage from another of his films, "When the Bell Tolls".Salvatore Baccaro (the "beast" of the title) has the perfect body for a character actor. He was in Dario Argento's little-seen "Five Days", s well as "Deep Red". Though his role in this film is reprehensible, this is really the fault of the script an those involved... in fairness to Baccaro, he is spot-on as far as being a crazed beat goes, so well played.

I only wanted to see "SS Hellcamp, only because it's was on the infamous "Video Nasty" list. Yes indeed it's still banned in England, why I don't know it's all very Repelling, that SS Hellcamp is banned and "Spice World" isn't however. I wasn't at disappointed at all with this. I found it good and its thought provoking. There is some humor. If viewers find this offensive, then get a life and don't watch this. If you are into strange films than you'll love this. There is lots of sexy parts and action.The Nazi's experiments on a half-man and half-beast. They also find female prisoners to have sex with the beast. The only problems once the half-man half- beast is that he kills them. The rebels get to fight the good fight and the Nazi's get. Karma is a bitch.

Beautiful and sadistic Nazi officer Dr. Kratsch (Macha Magall) has created a horrific mutant beast who she keeps locked in a cage, offering it POW's to rape and feast upon. She aims to use her experiments to eventually win the war, but first must deal with the Italian resistance. After blowing up a bridge that was one of the keys to the Nazi's strategic positioning, the resistance plans to move into action as a few of their army are caught and are being subjected to the brutal experiments.Also known as SS Hell Camp or, more laughably, Horrifying Experiments of SS Last Days, this is one of many Nazi exploitation movies released in the 70's and 80's (commonly known as 'nazisploitation'), and was only made notorious due to its placement on the Video Nasty list. Otherwise it would have become as forgetful as the likes of Hitler's Lust Train and SS Girls. Inspired by movies such as Pasolini's Salo and Cavani's The Night Porter, both European art-house films, the nazisploitation sub-genre commonly consisted of brutal experimentation, degrading masochistic sexual acts, dominatrix female wardens, and generally being very, very s**t. The Beast in Heat does not disappoint in this department, although it is one of the few to truly live up to its 'nasty' title.Not to say the film is effective in any way, but sitting through torture scenes such as a woman having electric shocks applied to her vagina, someone having their insides eaten by guinea-pigs, and a woman being raped by the 'Beast' who rips off chunks of her pubic hair and eats it, is rather unpleasant. This is repulsive film-making at its most desperate. It is so devoid of ideas or artistic flair that it must try to amp up the shock factor to the max to render itself memorable. The beast itself is actually just a pretty ugly guy with big lips, a stunted stature, and a boil on his arse. It's a film full of memorably awful moments, and it's unnerving to see a director so blasé about his work that he would allow a panning shot that clearly shows the shadows of himself, the camera and half his crew to remain in the film. Almost as bad as the Nazi party itself.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Another Italian sex-prison romp.Naked and buxom women tossed in jail to be raped by a half man/half subhuman deviant. The title said it all.As far as it goes, it told the truth. If one like naked savagery, see this. If you like beauty, avoid it. Reality? Ditto. None of that here. The women look OK, but in a seedy way.Sal Baccoro (spelling?) plays the beast perfectly. He really looks like a cross between a gorilla and a rabid pit bull so it was no stretch. His look made him perfect for any monstermen the Italians may have needed. He had a blink and miss it cameo in Goddess Gemser's "Emanuelle In America" too.If you must...here it is. But I don't think I'll watch it again.