The Beast in Heat

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La bestia in calore

Some very watchable graphic scenes of full frontal sex and brutal violence have to compete with war footage from other movies, crap dialogue (as the third finger nail is removed: 'Hey, that hurt') and a nonsensical structure. It has to be said that Macha Magall is one of the better looking female Nazi leaders and her idea to inject men to make them rampant at least affords us of the opportunity to see the freakish Sal Boris raping his way through the entire film. The film is unredeemable and at times (attempting pathos!) plain stupid but undeniably it certainly doles out large portions of that good old S and V!

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.

If one can overlook the gratuitous nudity, lengthy rape scenes, and nasty tortures, La Bestia In Calore does provide solid entertainment for those who enjoy particularly inept cinema. Muscleman Brad Harris stars as a priest involved with Italian partisans and provides the film's best line as he sends the resistance off to battle: "trust in the Lord! He's the BEST!" Stock footage from better films with decent budgets is easily discernible, as are toy planes that periodically bomb our heroic partisans--one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to Saddam Hussein. The award for best torture device must surely go to the 'death by hamster nibbling' sequence, and of course all the actors--including those playing the Nazis--sport truly atrocious 70's hair. Unforgettable!

SS Hell Camp (1977) ** (out of 4) Naziploitation film has a wacked out female German doctor performing experiments on beautiful naked women. This is considered one of the more graphic naxiploitation films but I've seen a couple that are a tad bit worse. Like the others this one here is full of naked women, rape, violence, some blood and various "Hail Hitler's". The biggest problem here, much like the others, is that there isn't enough camp and there's way too many disgusting scenes including one where a baby is taken from its mother, thrown into the air and then shot.

Luigi Batzella's "Beast in Heat" is a hyper sleazy and hyper hilarious and just plain sick nazi exploitation turkey that beats every other film of the questionable genre.The film rips so many other films and documentaries off it makes you laugh alone.There are many scenes of some war documentaries that have extremely bad picture quality.The same thing is with Bruno Mattei's "Hell of the Living Dead" that rips also everything possible off,including the Goblin score from "Contamination" and "Dawn of the Dead"."Beast in Heat" is also very graphic with its violence,mainly towards naked females that get abused and sexually violated as we can expect.Plenty of nudity and pubic hair ripped off and then eaten by the monster and so on.The film doesn't even have a credits in its beginning;I've heard that every member of the crew,including the director,wanted to take their names off from this film.Overall,"Beast in Heat" is surely wild,so fans of Italian exploitation won't be disappointed.