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THREE WEIRD THINGS: Horse porn cold open eternally spurting beast clerical bestiality lecture (Not surprisingly, most of The Beast‘s promotional material has focused on Sirpa Lane’s stunned face, framed by a powdered wig, as she gazes in shock at the same images that will be indelibly stained in your memory). If you can make it through the equine porn scene that opens the film, you should be fine. Being as circumspect and polite as possible, we’ll simply say that it has to do with the titular creature’s, ahem, “equipment.” Scrub your eyes though you may, you can’t unsee these things, so beware. INDELIBLE IMAGE: The Beast‘s indelible image is too obscene to be mentioned in polite company. The Beast in Space (1980) was a totally unauthorized Italian “sequel” that also starred sex siren Sirpa Lane.Screened as an 18-minute short entitled “La Véritable Histoire de la bête du Gévaudan,” it understandably caused quite a scandal at the 1973 London Film Festival. The “original” Beast is the segment that now appears as Lucy’s dream. The Beast was originally intended as a segment of Immoral Tales, but Borowczyk decided to expand it to feature length.After 1972 Borowczyk’s career took a turn towards the explicitly erotic/pornographic when he began work on Immoral Tales, a portmanteau of erotic shorts based on literary sources or historical personages (Erzsebet Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia).
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He moved on to live action art house features like Goto, Island of Love (1969) and Blanche (1972), which were respectable and well-received.
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PLOT: Lucy, an impressionable young heiress, comes to France for an arranged marriage with Mathurin de l’Esperance, the socially awkward scion of an aristocratic family. For the exotic and the erotic-and the downright weird-had always been part of Borowczyk’s cinematic universe.”–Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs, “ Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984”įEATURING: Guy Tréjan, Lisbeth Hummel, Pierre Benedetti, Sirpa Lane Or perhaps, if you looked hard enough, there was. “There was nothing in his previous output-a respectable career that stretched back to the late 1940s-to prepare the viewer for this terrible outrage.