Met with box office demand upon its theatrical release, the film had already gained critical disdain when it had been presented as a work in progress at the 1973 London Film Festival the disdain springing primarily from a contentious segment that crossed the lines of good, wholesome erotic tastes and entered into the realms of bestiality and zoophilia. Jean Rollin’s THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE (1968) kicked off the director’s spree of erotic horror films that would see eight produced over the next decade people traveled all across Europe to come and see Bertolucci’s uncensored LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972) and in 1974, Walerian Borowczyk released his erotic anthology Immoral Tales, consisting of four stories that each told an “immoral tale” dealing with perversions ranging from masturbation to incest. To say that the 1970s were a magical time for onscreen sexuality in France would be an understatement of the highest degree.
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