8/10
Sleazy, campy, titillating fun.
7 April 1999
Warning: Spoilers
SS hell camp, or the beast in heat rode the crest of the wave of the late 70's early 80's video nasties phenomenon in Britain- well, in style anyway, since it has always been curiously scarce. An SS atrocities film with an Ilsa style villainess named Krast, who performs human experiments to advance the nazi cause. She creates a brutal beast-man and injects it with a libido enhancing serum, and throws captured virgins into its cage. Why? who knows. The local resistance get p****d, and attempt to invade the experiment compound. Krast in turn gets p****d with the resistance and tries to extract information about the resistance by torturing the locals. The film cuts between scenes of the resistance struggle and the sleazy goings on within Krast-ville, the former being mostly comprised of war footage (Cheap!) and the latter showing assorted torture techniques (Gory but camp). As a film SS hell camp is pretty shabbily made, and including war scenes seems more of a digression than a plot element, but there again, a film like SS hell camp neither has nor needs a real plot, since it simply serves to titilate.

Historians will hate it, Genre fans will enjoy it.
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