LA ROSE ECORCHÉE (“The Flayed Rose”) Production: France, 1970 Director: Claude Mulot Category: Sex/Sadism/Freaks English title: The Blood Rose German title: Das Blutige Schloss der Lebenden Leichen (“Bloody Castle Of Living Corpses”) Promoted as the first “sex-horror” film, Mulot’s phantasy was a conflation of sex, nudity, violence, gore, and two sinister dwarfs. Continue Reading
JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS
JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS (“I Love You, No I Don’t”) Production: France, 1976 Director: Serge Gainsbourg Category: Sex Composer Gainsbourg’s first film as director is the classic story of a girl who submits to endless bouts of sodomy because the young man she loves is essentially homosexual and can only relate Continue Reading