The Demons [Blu-ray]

Director: Jesùs Franco Jesùs Franco

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/29/2014
UPC:	0738329129323
Original Release:	1972
Source:	Kino Lorber
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00

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

Performance Credits

Brit Nichols	Actor
Anne Libert	Actor
Howard Vernon	Actor
Luis Barboo	Actor
Karin Field	Actor
Albeto Dalbes	Actor
Doris Thomas	Actor

Technical Credits