Lorna the exorcist [Blu-ray] / a film by Jess Franco ; produced by Robert de Nesle ; written by Jesus Franco Manera, Nicole Franco, Robert de Nesle ; directed by Jesus Franco Manera.
Container of (work): Les possédées du diable (Motion pictures). Container of (work): Les possédées du diable (Motion pictures). English.
Notes:
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1976. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features: Audio Commentary by novelist and critic Tim Lucas; interview with actress Pamela Stanford; interview with filmmaker Gerard Kikoine; interview with Stephen Thrower, the author of Murderous Passions: the delirious cinema of Jesus Franco. Pamela Stanford, Guy Delorme, Lina Romay, Jacqueline Laurent, Howard Vernon, Richard Bigotini, Jess Franco.
Summary:
Haunted by erotic visions, a young woman comes to discover that her sexual possession is the result of a bargain struck nineteen years earlier between her playboy father and an ethereal, pansexual seductress. In a parallel narrative, a visionary doctor tries to unravel the particular form of psychopathic sexuality that torments a beautiful patient. In the 1970s, Franco's films reached a level of voyeuristic extremes, especially when collaborating with Romay, his soulmate and creative muse. Along with Shining Sex and Female Vampire, Lorna the Exorcist demonstrates the outer limits of the erotic horror film: hallucinatory films with languorous love scenes, drenched with lyrical music, and punctuated with moments of stark horror.
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