Immoral Tales
DVD Anchor Bay Entertainment
1974, 103 minutes

review by Shade Rupe

Ah, some 1st-class perversion from the outer lands. The first Walerian Borowczyk film to hit domestic DVD shores is a fine introduction to the ultra-fetishized, amoral world of this obscure director.
 
Featured in Pete Tombs and Tim Cahill's Immoral Tales book, Borowczyk has gained fame through bootlegs of titles like The Beast (where a woman is repeatedly pursued by an apish creature with a very large schwang) and Dr. Jekyll and the Women (with Udo Kier). Here he touches up themes that he's explored in other films, and each story told with his signature finesse.

Four stories comprise this collection of tales, from a young man and woman making love while a tide rises, to another young woman discovering solitary passion in a locked bedroom, to the most memorable of the episodes, Countess Bathory, mainly as it stars Paloma Picasso, though it's rampant nubile nudity and blood bathing also carry it in the viewer's mind. The fourth installment, after the Borgias, is another beautifully staged work, with its fine bodies favorably lit and choreographed.

This DVD is almost a tease of further Borowczyks to come. I'm tired of my boot of Dr. Jekyll and its Japanese subtitles. Hopefully Anchor Bay will hear my cry.

Anchor Bay's DVD includes a theatrical trailer and talent bios.

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