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The Demoniacs
(aka Les Demoniaques/Les Diablesses/Curse of the Living Dead)
Image Entertainment
DVD, 95 mins., 1974,
1:75

review by Shade Rupe

The 'wreckers' are a band of motley modern-day pirates who use the beam from the lighthouse to guide passing ships smashing into the rocks, then raping the women and killing everyone on board. One dark night (though brightly lit by movie lamps!) the Captain's horrid henchmen rape two young women in white, survivors of a wreck, and smash their skulls, ending their young lives. Kinda.

The girls come back to haunt the Captain and his mates. Joelle Coeur is mainly unworried, preferring to dance naked and turn on the men around her. Only the captain has fear of these appartitions, but a barroom psychic's abilities convince the Captain the girls must be about, and are his doom.

Following his themes of paired women (here the girls are so close they are almost Siamese Twins, their blond hair and white night dresses blending together into almost one beast), and even a clown (a descendent of one of the clowns from Requiem for a Vampire, even played by the same actress, Mirielle Dargent), who leads the frail ghosts to a man of professed magic. The pirates attempt further kills on these ghosts, but they cannot be done away with so easily. It takes more than ambushes to rid them of these dogged beasts.

Plentiful in its female breasts, generous in its bloodletting, fantastic in its story and filmmaking style, The Demoniacs is yet another notch in the Rollinian ouevre, one that adds subtles touches and brushstrokes across the erotic horror master's already brilliant canvas.

Image's fine transfer is a letterboxed presentation includes the original French theatrical trailer, and three still galleries totalling 29 images.

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RATING 1-10
OVERALL 8

 

DIRECTOR:
Jean Rollin

CAST:
Joelle Coeur,
Lieva Lone.
Patricia Hermenier,
John Rico.

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