The Beast in Heat

The bottom of the DPP list and the bottom of the nazisploitation cycle.

The cycle itself came out of two things. Italy had a tradition of fumetti neri, cheap black-covered adult comics that traded in exactly this imagery through the 1960s. And Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS had made a great deal of money in 1975, shot in nine days on the standing sets of the cancelled Hogan's Heroes.

What followed was roughly two years of Italian and Spanish productions racing each other downward. This is the one usually named as the worst of them, and its infamous element is a man in makeup kept in a cell.

Luigi Batzella directed it partly by padding the running time with unrelated partisan footage from an earlier film of his, which is why the tone lurches between war picture and something else entirely.

The cycle burned out by 1978. It is documented here because the list is documented in full.