Ī 1997 article from the Stanford News Service described the experiment goal in a more detailed way: To do this, we decided to set up a simulated prison and then carefully note the effects of this institution on the behavior of all those within its walls. We wanted to see what the psychological effects were of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The official website of the SPE describes the experiment goal as follows: 5 Interpretation and reproducibility of results.3.3.3 Carlo Prescott as a prison consultant.While SPE cannot ethically be replicated, intense abuse and conflict between guards and prisoners is seen in actual prisons. After debriefing with his "guards" and "prisoners", Zimbardo analyzed the data and published his findings. The study was cancelled six days later on August 20. Guards, after being encouraged by researchers, exhibited abusive behavior toward prisoners, which led Zimbardo, at the urging of Christina Maslach, to stop the experiment before it was due to conclude. The experiment began with prisoners being arrested in their own neighborhoods by real Palo Alto police. The first official day of the experiment was August 15, 1971. Certain portions of it were filmed, and excerpts of footage are publicly available. The US Office of Naval Research funded the experiment as an investigation into behavior. The day before the experiment began, Zimbardo's team coached the "guards" about their roles and what was (and was not) acceptable for them to do to "prisoners." One recurring criticism of the SPE is that participants were biased in their behavior based on demand characteristics. The experiment's findings have been called into question, and the experiment has been criticized for unscientific methodology. In 2019, the American Psychological Association advised of "the need for teachers and textbook authors to both revise and repurpose the coverage of the SPE in their classes and textbooks, respectively". The experiment was described in many introductory social psychology textbooks, although some exclude it due to concerns about its methodology and ethics. The controversial experiment gained a large amount of publicity over the ensuing decades, during which the SPE's scientific validity has been discredited and its methods described as "deeply flawed", and "a lie". Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo led the research team who conducted the experiment. It was intended to examine the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors, in a two-week simulation of a prison environment. The Stanford prison experiment ( SPE) was a role-play and simulation, held at Stanford University in summer 1971. The action sequences surround the local partisans attempts to fight off the Nazis are almost completely stolen from other films (which does help explain how disconnected that thread feels from the rest of the story).įor those more interested in the genre, the new Blu-ray release includes a documentary on Naziploitation Cinema and an interview with horror reviewer Stephen Thrower, as well as the trailer.Plaque at the location of the Stanford prison experiment Originally released in Italy in 1977 under the title of La bestia in calore, the film has been released under multiple titles over the years including SS Hell Camp, SS Experiment Part 2, and Horrifying Experiments of SS Last Days.
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Had the film thoroughly embraced its ridiculous nature and gone full camp it may have been semi-passable as a guilty pleasure. There’s also a subplot involving locals looking to derail the Nazi war effort who become prisoners the Dr. The film is a bizarre mix of unintentional camp mixed with gore, torture, shootings, and rape sequences. There’s nothing of merit and little of interest here. Apparently the Nazis have decided the best way to win over the locals is for the Beast to rape them into submission. An Naziploitation film co-written and directed by Luigi Batzella, under the pseudonym Ivan Kathansky, the film centers around the comings and goings around a Nazi POW camp during WWII where a mad scientist ( Macha Magall) has created a human beast ( Salvatore Baccaro). When you are looking at a film where the director and 90% of the cast refused to put their real names on the project, you know you found something pretty awful.