

The film's theatrical release in the United States was heavily edited. Along with Batzella's other nazi-themed film, Kaput Lager - Gli ultimi giorni delle SS, the film was released in 1977. The film was passed by Italian censors on 10 June 1977. Richardson as perhaps "better classified as horror films, given the excessive and graphic violence that dominated the screen." Release Among the films, particularly the ones produced in Italy such as Captive Women 4, Gestapo's Last Orgy and La bestia in calore often include pornographic scenes, but were described by author Michael D. These films were primarily produced in the United States and Italy. La bestia in calore was part of a sub-genre of exploitation films created in the early 1970s called Naziploitation. Most, if not all, of the battle scenes showing partisans attacking the Germans were taken from a previous war film directed by Batzella, Quando suona la campana. Salvatore Baccaro as The Beast (as Sal Boris).During the film's climax, the partisans attack the castle, and Kratsch is given to the beast in revenge. In addition to the beast, as the Nazis battle a local insurgency, male and female captives are stripped naked and forced to endure various torture and interrogation, including electric shocks, systematic rape by the beast, finger-nail pulling, castration, and beatings.

The dwarfish beast is kept on a diet of mega- aphrodisiacs. The beast is a rapacious, squat sex fiend, which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners as part of a new medical experiment. A beautiful yet nefarious female SS officer/doctor, Ellen Kratsch (Magall), creates a genetic, incubus-like mutant human beast (Baccaro) in a castle in occupied Europe.
