I imagine this film was very racy for it's time. There is a great deal of female masturbation, as well as rape, lesbianism, and heterosexual sex. It's bloody too, with themes of revenge and just plain cruelty. Udo Kier plays a terrible writer who looks remarkably like Antonin Artaud. He hires a young woman to use the typewriter while he dictates his idiotic prose. She turns out to be a dangerous psychopath, and hilarity ensues. That's pretty much the story.
The action of this movie progresses very slowly, and the boredom is excruciating. The sex scenes go on forever; it's not pornography, so the sex scenes are not the point. The camera did not need to linger. More importantly, we don't like these people. All of them are nasty, and there's a definite "good riddance" quality to the murders. And, again, there's the incredible boredom. Further, It's painfully obvious that they dubbed Udo Keir, which is just wrong.
As a 1970s curiosity, this rates 4 stars. Otherwise, it's just a bad made-for-TV movie with naked people being mean to each other.
The action of this movie progresses very slowly, and the boredom is excruciating. The sex scenes go on forever; it's not pornography, so the sex scenes are not the point. The camera did not need to linger. More importantly, we don't like these people. All of them are nasty, and there's a definite "good riddance" quality to the murders. And, again, there's the incredible boredom. Further, It's painfully obvious that they dubbed Udo Keir, which is just wrong.
As a 1970s curiosity, this rates 4 stars. Otherwise, it's just a bad made-for-TV movie with naked people being mean to each other.