Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes.

Today’s theme: 7. Stelvio Cipriani

Le deportate della sezione speciale SS says that its director is Alex Berger. Still, we all know that that’s Rino Di Silvestro, who IMDB said “…was an Italian writer/director who specialized in extremely raw, graphic and, in the opinion of many critics, offensive low-budget exploitation fare.” He also made Women In Cell Block 7, Love Angels, Baby Love, Bello di Mamma, Hanna D. – La ragazza del Vondel Park, The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra and The Legend of the Wolf Woman.

A group of female prisoners is transported by train to an SS concentration camp and subjected to torture by the camp commandant, Herr Erner (John Steiner) and his guards, which includes Kapo Helga (Erna Schürer, La bambola di Satana), a lesbian Third Reich boss, because every one of these movies needs one of those.

Erner falls for prisoner Tania Nobel (Lina Polito), as if this were a film like Salon Kitty. This starts with forced pubic haircuts and ends with a razor blade castration. This has Stefania D’Amario (Nurse Clara in Zombi), Anna Curti (Bava’s Kidnapped), Sara Sperati (who was in the high end version of this, Salon Kitty), Solvi Stubing (The Sheriff Won’t Shoot), Ofilia Meyer (Caligula’s Hot Nights), Paola D’Egidio (La Commessa), Maria Franco (Emanuelle Around the World), Felicita Fanny (X-Rated Girl) and Anges Galapagos (also in SS Lager 5, SS Experiment Love Camp, Achtung! The Desert Tigers and Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer).

All the interiors for the prison camp were filmed at Bracciano Castle, the exact location where The Inglorious Bastards, Toby Dammit, Night of the Devils, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, and many more films were also shot.

This is the kind of dialogue that waits for you in this movie:

Herr Erner: Tanya. Did you love your Ivan? Hmm? How did he take your virginity away? In the forest, like the animals, or in that dirty bar where they killed him? How did he do it to you, hmm? Standing up against a tree, or lying on the ground among the fleas? What was so special about him?

(Tanya spits in his face)

Herr Erner: You lurid slut! I will have you hanging from a rope, and I myself will tighten the noose about your neck!

Oh yeah! It also has a score by Stelvio Cipriani, who did the music for Piranha II and Tentacles, which is how you rule the undersea world.