Among the more brutal of the Nazi exploitation films, this one delivers a centerpiece scene in which no less than four naked beauties are tortured to death. After watching her three co-conspirators systematically and painfully executed by a bald, bug-eyed brute, a failed concentration camp escapee who resembles a young, quail-breasted Susan Sarandon bravely stands up against her tormentors. Naked and chained to a dungeon wall, she soon suffers the consequences. A hot iron is drawn from a brazier and pressed into the woman’s flesh, though the reverse angle POV makes it impossible to see the exact target. Although there’s lots of smoke and sizzle, the branding is just a warm-up for the grizzly ordeal which leads to the prisoner’s eventual demise.
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