This Jean Rollin film is a little different as there is I think no graves or a vampire and almost no candles and certainly no candelabra. There is also not too much of the lovely lighting or the beach at Dieppe. On the other hand we really get pirates and some shipwrecked sailors although we get a treasure chest, with only an item of jewellery but just two young women, with little clothes, who wander shipwrecked from the sea. Lieva Lone and Patricia Hermenier utter no words but get raped and almost killed several times throughout the film, which the pirates seem to enjoy as well as grimacing and getting drunk. There are good shots of ships aflame and a wonderful ruined abbey although the two girls manage to get into trouble again and then at the end when they are tied to the wreckage as the tide comes in, presumably just for fun.
Review of The Demoniacs
