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Cult filmmaker Jesus Franco as "Clifford Brown" directed this semi-sequel to his own Der Hexentoeter von Blackmoor without Christopher Lee but with copious amounts of sadism and sleazy sex. Cihangir Gaffari takes over Lee's role as the witchfinder Lord Jeffreys, cursed along with Lady de Winter Karin Field and her lover Capt. Renfield Alberto Dalbes by a dying witch. The witch had two daughters, Kathleen Anne Libert and Marguerite Britt Nichols, whom she vowed would avenge her death, so Lady de Winter sets out to find them in a convent. After a great deal of explicit lesbianism, Lady de Winter learns that the girls' father is actually her own husband Howard Vernon. Much sex and torture follows, but just how much depends on the version. Prints range from 83 to 116 minutes, with the most complete version including plentiful sadomasochism. Luis Barboo is suitably nasty as a hangman and Doris Thomas acquits herself quite well as a Mother Superior. Rather than a strict sequel, Les Demons appears to have been inspired mainly by the success of Ken Russell's The Devils 1971. Raoul Artigot's cinematography, replete with alarmingly frequent zooms, is frequently criticized, but it didn't stop Artigot from trying his own directorial hand at the genre with the same year's La Noche de las Brujas.
Condition:NEW. Never played marked upc.
Product Details
Actors: Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Howard Vernon, Karin Field
Directors: Jess Franco
Format: Blu-ray, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Kino Video
DVD Release Date: April 29, 2014
Run Time: 93 minutes
Special Features
Interview with Jess Franco by David Gregory (16 min.); Six minutes of deleted footage; Two theatrical trailers; Trailers of other Franco films
Cast & Crew
Brit Nichols
Anne Libert
Howard Vernon
Luis Barboo
Karin Field
Albeto Dalbes
Doris Thomas
Technical Credits
Jesùs Franco Director
Raul Artigot Cinematographer
Robert de Nesle Producer
Jess Franco Screenwriter
Jean-Bernard Raiteux Score Composer
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