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Nude For Satan

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The sight of a woman in white gown spread open, running full frontal through the woods has got to be a good sign, coming as it does in Nude For Satan's opening moments.

On his way to a house call, racing down the highway in his VW bug, Doctor William Benson nearly has an accident as he sees the woman in white standing in the middle of the road. As he is recovering from his near miss, he hears a crash behind him. He finds a Mini with the woman inside injured, presumably for the same reason as he. He puts Susan in his car and goes for help. Note: how did he know her name later? He didn't go through her purse or anything that I could see.

He finds a castle and enters. The place is a deserted and decrepit place. He sees a painting of a woman, then finds that woman rushing to greet him. To his surprise, it's none other than the woman he rescued, except she calls him Peter. She's also more carefree and happy, and she ends up seducing him. She also spouts some puzzling words on memory and time: "What is memory but a fraction of time wrapped in the parentheses of the past?" Wow, sounds like dialogue from Dr. Who, Colin Baker era. And also, "The past is not in time anymore, and time is silence. There is no space here for memories--it's always now."

Meanwhile, Susan, apparently recovered, goes to the castle, where she is invited in by a mysterious man in black. He welcomes her in but there's a sinister air about him, as he momentarily undresses her with a glance of his eyes. A hallucination or no? She sees a painting of a man who looks like William, except he's dressed in 19th century clothes. She runs into him, and he not only calls her Evelyn, but acts like a buffoon. What's happening should be kind of obvious by now, adding the woman's mysterious words, and those of a book William finds: "The light is twofold, the way is only one. The essence of life is not in time. He who has made a pact with Him, belongs to Him."

The mysterious stranger says some words about life that are intriguing and true: "... an illusion, like life. We delude ourselves that we live, that we love, that we die. When we see our mistake, we prefer to ignore it. Then, everything becomes a nightmare." A nightmare is exactly what William and Susan go through once they figure out what's going on.

There's whippings, lesbian sex, and enough full frontal nudity. Rita Calderoni (Susan/Evelyn) also played a dual role in The Reincarnation Of Isabel as Laureen/Isabella, and we see more of her here than in Isabel. If this didn't have the skin and violence, this would make a great Dr. Who story. As it is, it's a piece of weird but fascinating Euro-horror, more coherent than The Reincarnation Of Isabel, and with a good puzzle for the viewer to figure out.

With the title of the movie, there is no doubt you will get to see nudity, but this film is much better than that. It is the best non-Jean Rollin film in the DVD Redemption line, and the only one in my collection other than the Rollin films.

Surreal, creepy, the lovely Rita Calderoni, in her most nude role, and all the campy goth and eerie locations and characters that a classic 70's sexploitation horror film should be. A classic.

By no means is this a classic of horror cinema (apparently it's been locked away in a vault since it's disastrous Italian one-screening release in the 70's), but it is nonetheless a fun and moody descent into euro-erotic atmosphere. There is a creepy feel to the proceedings which is backed by a foreboding musical score, solid acting and stylistic use of lighting and camera movements. It's very low-budget and the narrative is minimal, but the film's shortcomings are redeemed by it's dream-like ambience. Nudity abounds and there's a very fake spider, but this is one small gem that italian horror fans should check out. The DVD lets you watch it in Italian with english subtitles (this is the better choice) or in the English-dubbed version. Also contains the Italian and the English trailers.

Nude for Satan is yet another interesting release from the Redemption line of Image Entertainment. Chock full of bizarre satanic rituals, nudity and horrific images, it illustrates fully the wonders of European low budget horror. Definetly not for the casual viewer, but well worth the time for genre fans. The DVD transfer is probably the best presentation this film has and will ever receive.

This is a somewhat surreal Italian exploitation movie and although it does have a plot hidden within it, the emphasis is firmly upon the entertainment provided by each scene. The exploitation theme is carried out with great enthusiasm with large amounts of nudity, lesbian themes, whipping and even a horny spider, but all somewhat harmlessly. Visually, the movie is quite classy with good production values and this is a good quality print. This is certainly much more watchable than many other exploitation movies dragged out of the vault for release on DVD in recent times. Overall whilst this is no masterpiece, it does combine some good moments coherently with surreal elements and it all looks pretty into the bargain. Collectors of this genre could do much worse than get hold of this, its well above average for this type of movie.

--NUDE FOR SATAN--

Oh, what a stupendous title. This classic 70's sleaze almost lives up to that genius billing. I'm curious about all these bad reviews. Those people must not be fans of nudity, lesbianism, nudity, filth, nudity, sadomasochism, nudity, torture, nudity, or graphic nudity. Weird.

Here's the plot--
Storm.
Car wreck.
Gothic castle.
Nudity. Lots of nudity.
Dopplegangers, ghouls, monsters, Satan.
Sex and torture.

What's not to love?

Thank God for Instant streaming Nflix,otherwise I would never rent this even if I was paid,the nudity doesn't make for a plot.The Subtitles don't match the dubbed English Dialogue(Italian Film,no Surprise right?)The movie drags on despite nudity from the start(the distribution co apparently runs the credit with nudity).A waste of time.

"Nude for Satan" is a fairly entertaining exercise in the Italian Gothic style, somewhat reminiscent of "Castle of Terror", but with more explicit sexual content. Comparing it to the other Redemption videos I have seen, I would say it is not quite as good as "The Devil's Nightmare", but is considerably better than "The Reincarnation of Isabel". Certainly Rita Calderoni is used to better effect here.

The title says it all,it's not a very deep film,a bit funny,very silly with plenty of flesh to keep you wondering what's next. Gotta love the audio in the openning scenes with the cars...and the giant spider will have you rolling over laughing. Worth seeing at least once.

This is a staple of late, late night TV in Sydney. Whilst it's probably intended to be a cross between horror and soft porn, it's soooo bad that I've just about split my sides laughing each time I've seen it. It's a hoot!!