Friday, October 3, 2014

The Demons (1973)


Hemisphere Pictures
Directed by Jess Franco
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Redemption)

A woman burned at the stake for being a witch curses those responsible. A countess and her witch hunting boyfriend find the woman's daughters in a convent and accuse them of being witches as well. The are taken away by the Inquisition, then tortured and raped in a dungeon. They manage to escape, one of them taking up with a nearby painter and the other, who turns out to be a real witch, seeking revenge on her tormentors. It's all just an excuse for the typical Jess Franco sleazefest, playing up the nun angle for all its worth, with endless scenes of soft porn and nudity, set to a horrible generic soundtrack of progressive rock which dates it badly.

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