La Bestia in Calore

Infobox Film
name = La Bestia in Calore


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caption = US DVD Cover under the SS Hell Camp name
director = Luigi Batzella
producer = Xiro Papas
writer = Luigi Batzella
Lorenzo Artale
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starring = Macha Magall
Gino Turini
Edilio Kim
Xiro Papas
Salvatore Baccaro
music = Giuliano Sorgini
cinematography = Ugo Brunelli
editing = Luigi Batzella
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released = July 1977
runtime = 86 Minutes
country = flagicon|Italy Italy
language = Italian
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imdb_id = 0076649

"La Bestia in Calore" (also known as "SS Hell Camp", "SS Experiment Part 2", "The Beast in Heat" 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 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities. A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (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. The dwarfish beast is kept on a diet of mega-aphrodisiacs. There is plenty of sadistic titillations, gore and nudity in this Nazi exploitation flick.

Cast

*Macha Magall as Dr. Ellen Kratsch
*Gino Turini as Drago
*Edilio Kim as Nazi Captain
*Xiro Papas as Lupo
*Salvatore Baccaro as The Beast
*Giuseppe Castellano as German Soldier
*Brad Harris as Don Lorenzo
*Benito Pacifico as Partisan
*Alfredo Rizzo as Moreno
*Brigitte Skay as Irene