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51% Critic Match
The Beast in Heat
“Horrifying experiences in the last days of the S.S.”
5.1 / 10• 1977• 1h 26m•NR• Italian
HorrorThrillerWar
Storyline
In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in efforts to force them to betray their comrades.... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined tortures and humiliation, leaving them to the mercy of a sex-crazed half-man, half-beast she has created with experimental injections.... And as advancing Allied forces approach the village, Krast herself becomes a victim of her own fiendish rituals....
Cast & Crew
Macha Magall
Dr. Ellen Kratsch
Lead
Gino Turini
Dra
Edilio Kim
Captain Hardinghauser
Xiro Papas
Lupo
Salvatore Baccaro
The Beast
Brigitte Skay
Irene (uncredited)
Alfredo Rizzo
Moreno (uncredited)
Benito Pacifico
Partisan (uncredited)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Luigi Batzella's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Beast in Heat is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
