Bestiality 3. 66 Weird Movies. La Bête“There was nothing in his previous output—a respectable career that stretched back to the late 1. Or perhaps, if you looked hard enough, there was. 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, 1.

DIRECTED BY: Walerian Borowczyk. FEATURING: Guy Tréjan, Lisbeth Hummel, Pierre Benedetti, Sirpa Lane. 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. The de l’Esperance family harbors many secrets, including the story of an ancestor from centuries ago who went missing and whose corset was discovered covered in claw marks. The first night she stays in the de l’Esperance chateau, Lucy has a erotic dream about a Victorian lady ravished in the forest by a beast. BACKGROUND: Walerian Borowczyk began his career making highly regarded surreal animated short films. He moved on to live action art house features like Goto, Island of Love (1.

WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: With campy acting, absurdist elements mixed with existentialist philosophy, arty cinematography, and a story full of all kinds of bizarre. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Thank you, Kat for your kind words and appreciation of my efforts to help movie lovers to find best and worth of watching ones in the boundless sea of Russian films.

Blanche (1. 97. 2), which  were respectable and well- received. After 1. 97. 2 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). The Beast was originally intended as a segment of Immoral Tales, but Borowczyk decided to expand it to feature length. Watch The Channel Online Mic. The “original” Beast is the segment that now appears as Lucy’s dream. Screened as an 1. Otto; Or, Up With Dead People Full Movie Online Free more. La Véritable Histoire de la bête du Gévaudan,” it understandably caused quite a scandal at the 1. Watch Online Watch Flashback Full Movie Online Film here.

London Film Festival. The Beast in Space (1. Italian “sequel” that also starred sex siren Sirpa Lane. INDELIBLE IMAGE: The Beast‘s indelible image is too obscene to be mentioned in polite company. 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.

If you can make it through the equine porn scene that opens the film, you should be fine. 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).

THREE WEIRD THINGS: Horse porn cold open; eternally spurting beast; clerical bestiality lecture. WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Some movies are designed to be weird. Some movies become weird because of certain confluences of incompetencies. And then there are movies like The Beast—a nugget of explicit (if simulated) bestiality porn wrapped in a nuptial drawing room drama, made by a director on the cusp of art house stardom who seems intent on throwing it all away as dramatically as possible—that are weird simply because, if not for the evidence of your own eyes, you could not believe that they exist.

Re- release trailer for The Beast. COMMENTS: No one can accuse Walerian Borowcyzk of sandbagging. After a quote from Voltaire (“worried dreams are but a passing Continue reading 2. THE BEAST (1. 97.