10 Outrageous Films That Must Be Seen To Be Believed

Made to cash in on the success of Ilsa She Wolf Of The S.S. (1974), The Beast In Heat goes out of its way to be trashy and throws in everything you’d expect to see in a cheaply made Italian Nazisploitation picture.

As well as human experiments, there are Nazis that machine gun babies and old ladies, naked women with electrodes attached to their genitals and female guards who lick their lips while watching a mutant creature tear out a girl’s pubic hair. Too over the top to be shocking, the violence has an unintended comic effect when a woman having her fingernails torn out says, “You’re hurting me!”

Beast has all the sleaze you could want, but what it doesn’t have is much of a plot. It’s basically 40 minutes of softcore footage padded out with war scenes lifted from other movies, most notably director Luigi Batzella’s own When The Bell Tolls (1970). Batzella also edited, and he must have used a meat cleaver because scenes don’t run together so much as slam into each other at high speed, making the battle footage more exciting than it really is.