La bestia in calore (1977)

Director:

Luigi Batzella

Writers:

Lorenzo Artale (dialogue)
Luigi Batzella

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 | Female Prisoner | SS | Torture | Exploitation

Cast

Macha Magall	...	Dr. Ellen Kratsch
Gino Turini	...	Drago (as John Braun)
Edilio Kim	...	Capt. Hardinghauser (as Kim Gatti)
Xiro Papas	...	Lupo (as Xiros Papas)
Salvatore Baccaro	...	The Beast (as Sal Boris)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giuseppe Castellano	...	German Soldier (uncredited)
Brad Harris	...	Don Lorenzo (uncredited)
Benito Pacifico	...	Partisan (uncredited)
Alfredo Rizzo	...	Moreno (uncredited)
Brigitte Skay	...	Irene (uncredited)

Directed by
Luigi Batzella		(as Ivan Kathansky)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Lorenzo Artale		dialogue
Luigi Batzella		(as Ivan Kathansky)

Produced by
Roberto Pérez Moreno	....	producer (as Clemente Roberto P. Moreno)

Original Music by
Giuliano Sorgini

Cinematography by
Ugo Brunelli

Film Editing by
Luigi Batzella		(as Paolo Solvay)

Production Management
Xiro Papas	....	production manager (as Ciro Papa)

Production Companies

• Eterna Film
• Sonora Films

Distributors

• AGM Home Video (????) (Greece) (VHS)
• Another World Entertainment (2008) (Denmark) (DVD)
• Exploitation Digital (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Filmifriikki (2009) (Finland) (DVD)
• JVI (1982) (UK) (VHS)
• Maxam (2007) (Japan) (DVD)
• Mogul Communications (unknown) (USA) (VHS)
• Video Action (unknown) (Denmark) (VHS)
• Video City Productions (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Video for Pleasure (VFP) (unknown) (Netherlands) (VHS)

Also Known As:

"Horrifying Experiments of S.S. Last Days" - International (English title)
"Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days" - USA (dubbed version)
"S.S. Experiment Camp 2" - USA (video box title)
"SS Hell Camp" - USA (DVD title)
"The Beast in Heat" - USA (imdb display title)
"A Fúria da Besta" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Djævelen fra Gestapo" - Denmark (DVD title)
"Evraiki sarka sta nyhia tou ktinous" - Greece (DVD title)
"Holocauste Nazi (Armes secrètes du III Reich)" - France
"La bestia en calor" - Spain
"Quand explose la dernière grenade" - France
"To teras ton SS" - Greece (video title)

Runtime:

Denmark:86 min | USA:86 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | UK:(Banned) | Norway:18 (uncut) (2009) | Portugal:M/18 | Italy:VM18 | Australia:(Banned)

Company:

Eterna Film

Trivia:

The film was listed as one of the DPP's 72 video nasties in the UK and even made the final list of 39 official titles for prosecution.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the cameraman and camera is visible during a pan on the large red swastika lawn ornament as a car drives up to the compound.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Cinema Snob: The Gestapo's Last Orgy (#4.3)" (2012)

SS Hell Camp

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.