"It
may be the most extreme, gore-infused movie ever unleashed on the public"
director: Bernard Launois
starring: Veronique Renaud · Marcel Portier · Catherine Day · Nicole
De Sailly · Pascal Simon
The film
opens in an idyllic clearing in the woods where a tent is washed by the
setting sun. Very soon, a crazed, deformed monster (in a Nazi uniform)
tears out of the tent with a screeching howl. He brutality kills the man
and woman inside. With blood spurting from the wounds of his two victims,
the monster slinks into the wood searching for even more bloody mayhem.
He successfully finds and slaughters other unsuspecting people. Meanwhile,
a young couple has car trouble on the edge of the forest, and they seek
help from an elderly duo living in a dark house nearby. The unaware young
people are convinced to spend the night. The old woman - seemingly, the
mother of the deformed monster on the aforementioned killing spree - begins
to tell the guests of weird things happening around the area. It includes
none-too-real myths about senseless murders caused by a maniacal creature
as well as a blood-thirsty mummy haunting the countryside after a shipwreck.
Belong long, everyone is caught up in the grisly scene.
Filmmaker
Bernard Launois worked for Eurocine Studios in the '70s as a featured
player in numerous [but ultimately forgettable) productions. He eventually
broke away from that powerful Grindhouse production company and begin
making indie films, sometimes with other Eurocine vets. This was one of
his final independent projects - jointly directed with Claude Plaut
(pseudonym for actor Oliver Mathot) - and despite its unique underground
reputation, it was his only horror film. Mr Launois, now in his mid 80s,
has retired from the movie industry and lives quietly in Paris.
A French
film in English language; fullscreen format (4:3), totally uncut version
(76 minutes), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT. Extras include
trailers.
