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Wicked Women (Flesh for the Beast / Werewolf Woman / Nightmares Come at Night)

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This is a great deal for the price - 3 movies on 3 seperate disks. I'd have to note that there was a discrepency between the advertised product & what I received - the cover art & description showed the film 'Nightmares' as included but the set actually included 'Wicked Lake' as the third flik. To me this was a little disappointig as I already owned a copy of 'Wicked Lake' - but to others, perhaps, no problem. I actually purchased this set to get the film 'Werewolf Woman' and I was not disappointed in it! This was a totally over the top Italian effort that tells the tale of a family where one of the daughters, purportedly raped as a young teen, develops an aversion to men & sex and forms a psychic bond with a female lycanthropic ancestor. Her psychosis leads her to viciously attack and kill a variety of men and women as the tale unfolds - although she does not actually metamorph into a werewolf in the process. There is a lot of psycho-babble by doctors trying to figure the girl out and detectives also enter the scene as the body count grows - making this a bit of a cross-over between the horror and giallo traditions. Nudity abounds throughout with very attractive Italian actresses shedding their clothes. The film starts with sort of a flash-back sequence behind the titles showing the 'ancestral' werewolf woman who DOES transform into a hairy monster after a wild naked dance - the make-up was produced by a young Carlo Rambaldi who has since gone on to major Hollywood creature spfx fame - the wolf woman features some pretty unusual hairy breasts with long black nipples. Although a little uneven in spots - this one's 'a keeper'! "Wicked Lake" takes much of its' inspiration from the grindhouse 'roughies' - it focuses on 4 really hot girlfriends who are heading off for a weekend at a lakeside cabin - and has a lot of initial elements that are reminiscent of Tarantino's 'Death Proof'. The girl's party is 'crashed' by several assemblages of ner-do-well guys who are determined to have their way with the comely group and they tie the girls up and start to heap humiliation & abuse upon them until the clock strikes 12 and a startling transformation occurs. Seems that the four lovlies are actually immortal witches and the tables are turned with gleeefully gruesome results. This flik has a tongue-in-cheek, self parodying, vibe to it that makes it pretty enjoyable and the girls are gorgeous and get naked a lot. The third disk in the set, "Flesh For the Beast", follows a group of psychic investigators that visit a haunted mansion that was once a bordello established by an evil Alistair Crowley type of individual. As the group of guys wander around the spooky old place looking for paranormal activiy they keep coming upon lovely young ladies who seem to read their sexual fantasies and seduce them before turning into demonic monsters and eating them! There is not a lot of 'character development' before each of the hapless group are horribly dispatched until only one, female, investigator remains at the films 'suprise' conclusion. The definite highlight of this disk are the 'fantasy' sex scenes performed by the ensembles 3 demonesses - a little 'shallow' but it moves right along. All of the DVDs have a goodly selection of 'extras' included making this a pretty sweet package for the money. Recommended, if you like your women 'wicked'!

I've seen two or 30 Franco films, but this has Flesh for the Beast / Werewolf Woman / Nightmares Come at Night, I liked Flesh for the Beast, but really disliked Nightmares Come at Night, and Werewolf Woman, so I thought I'd buy some of his titles that have a bigger following.

Well, positive following makes for a fallacious description.

I still need to pick up Exorcism and Venus in Furs.

These titles are kinda Vampyros Lesbos and more slasher genre than anything, fused with all the exploitation elements that make up a typical inadequate Jess Franco film.

Bad collection but you can't go wrong with Hammer and Peter Cushing.