Thursday, October 24, 2013

2013 Horror Fest: The Beast In Heat: 70 Out Of 100 Stars

Deliciously ridiculous fare from 1977 about a sexy Nazi Lieutenant who is trying to engineer a.....sex beast? Think Herve Villachez crossed with a gorilla. When a group of Italian rebels cause too much trouble for the occupying Nazis, The Lieutenant is called in to help put them down.

We've got a lot of rape, like lots. Old ladies being shot and babies thrown up in the air for target practice. Marvelous dubbing in which the rebels all sound like they come from everywhere in the world but Italy. There's even one standout voice over that sounds more like he's defending Atlanta from the Union than Italy from the Nazis. There's a wonderful scene where one of the female rebels is undercover as the mistress of a Nazi officer and is gathering information to help the cause, she climbs on his stomach and bounces up and down in what I believe is intended to imply they are having intercourse. It looks more like she's trying to help him work out a fart. Imagine Hogans Heroes re imaged as torture porn with a dash of Benny Hill thrown in to keep the mood light.

The Lieutenant captures a group of men and we got a triple play of dong on display as she attempts to seduce information out of them by rubbing her boobs on them and biting their nipples. This sends one of the men into such a fit of lust that she has to cut his cock off. I have no idea what is going on in this particular scene, but I could watch it 100 times over.

Then we get a long stretch where it just turns into a war movie, various shootings and attacks and fighting. There's some glorious editing where when the Nazis get killed, it's old black and white stock footage from other war movies. Just fantastic. It's some spaghetti western/nazi war movie, hybrid.

Meanwhile, the Lieutenant has a bunch of rebel men and women captured and enduring some sort of torture orgy. Car batteries hooked up to to vaginas, the beast is doing some raping, men are being dunked in water with their cock and balls flopping around, rats are eating women alive. At one point the beast is so mad in heat that he starts pulling off a girls pubes and eating them. This movie is fantastic.

More horribly choreographed fight scenes occur in which the Nazis, despite being armed to the hilt and have a multiple man advantage, prefer hand to hand combat. Despite their being hundreds of Nazi soldiers, tanks and airplanes coming into the village, after one fight in which 2 Nazis are killed, the rebel leader exclaims, "those Krauts are on the retreat". Welp, I guess that's the end of the battle then.

As the film enters it's final act, the movie now transforms into The Magnificent 7 as a small group of rebels attempt to get into the Lieutenants castle and free the men and women she's torturing. There's a great moment here where one of the men throws a grenade, and we cut to stock footage film of Nazis being blown off of cobblestone steps. I've never seen a grenade thrown into a completely different movie before. Words can't express how awesome this is.

So a few of the rebels get into the torture room where the sexy lieutenant is having the beast rape one of the women, the men shoot the guards and the woman escapes. The lieutenant, who for whatever reason is only wearing a lab coat, with her boobs hanging out, is grabbed by the beast and drug into his cage where he proceeds to rape her as the rebels look on stone faced as she flails around and begs for help. The dubbing here is fantastic, it sounds like loops of a dude taking a violent dump.

A fantastic schlock fest. Part morality strewn war movie with a message, part sex romp with a genetically engineered rape monster. All of the women in the film are really pretty, and really nude. There's a good amount of silly gore and the war parts, while they go on for too long, are almost as entertaining due to the nonsensical nature of the story, editing and dubbing. Just a complete win all around.

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