10 Nastiest Video Nasties

1. Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977)

Lise Cohen is a beautiful, Jewish inmate in a Nazi concentration camp. She captures the head of the camp's attention when he discovers that she is mute and shows no fear when she is forced into torture type situations. He becomes determined to break her spirit and subjects her to ever greater horrors. The reason for her mental state is because Lise feels guilty about the Nazis capturing her family - she blames herself for this sad state of affairs. When the camp doctor tells her that the discovery of her family was not her fault, Lise undergoes a complete personality change and is full of the joys of living. To express this newfound lust for life, Lise rolls around a bed with the doctor in an absurdly lengthy sex scene with the terrible theme song playing as they cavort together. Lise becomes the lover of the camp commandant and she descends into depravity - fellating a gun, wearing a girdle of inmates' scalps to please the camp head. You are treated to scenes of beyond the pale Nazi evil - a group of Nazis feast on 'Jewish baby stew' and they flambeé a female inmate in brandy, just for the hell of it. The film ends with Lise and the camp commander meeting up at the camp ruins a couple of years after the war is over. Will they resume their affair a la Max and Lucia in The Night Porter or is Lise gunning for an end to the whole sorry episode? What makes Gestapo's Last Orgy especially vile is its high production values. It is much more believable than frivolous tat like SS Experiment Camp. Furthermore, it grievously slanders Jewish people; it suggests that they are sexual deviants (mother-daughter incest, coprophagy), sees Jewish women thrown to hungry dogs and delivers long rants about the inferiority of the Jewish race. This is all hurtful nonsense, but director Cesare Caniveri doesn't mind - he piles on the sleaze and distastefulness for the titilation of the viewer and thus creates the ultimate Video Nasty. Any truly nasty Nasties that have been missed? Which of these have you sat all the way through. Answer in the comments below.