It’s been a while since I posted a movie review let alone a horror review since the unleashing of The Lords Of Salem is right around the corner (This Friday). I have also decided to bring back Cheeseball Cinema back to it’s rightful place here on Eddie’s Entertainment. So, I cruised around Netflix and I came across another Jean Rollin (The Living Dead Girl) film. This one is called Fascination and it stars porn actress, radio host, the beautiful Brigitte Lahaie stars in this erotic horror film of two bisexual chambermaids that help a thief seek refuge from other thieves. The only problem is that the thief named Marc (Jean-Pierre Lemaire) doesn’t realize that he is being lured into a ritual where The Marchioness and her friends drink the blood of a man on a certain night. The film also stars Franca Maï as Elizabeth, Fanny Magier as Hélène, Muriel Montosse as Anita, Sophie Noel as Sylvie, Evelyne Thomas as Dominique, and Myriam Watteau as La Femme Apache.
When I say that the film is erotic, I mean that it is really erotic. Brigitte obviously had no problem getting naked as she is for most of the film and she had no problem with lesbian scenes either. The only difference is that sex isn’t looked at in a very taboo way like it is in America. In Europe, sex is just another aspect of life and a lot of European films use sex to tell a story especially in horror films. One of my favorite scenes is after Eva is forced to take her clothes off. She stays very calm as one of the thieves starts to have sex with her. She was forced to give up her clothes to the man’s wife and without the man knowing she has a sigh that she is about to stab him with. Afterwards, she puts on the black cloak and grabs a scythe that she will use to kill the other thieves that remain. I provided the pic to the left of this paragraph. The idea of a blood cult was pretty clever for the time. Let’s understand that this is not a vampire flick, but rather a film where women meet up to drink the blood of an ox in order to battle amnesia and thirsted for more. It’s not the scariest film at all, but a very sexy almost borderline softcore porn horror flick. On a scale of 1 to 5 with five being close to a Hollywood film and 1 being the cheesiest film of all time, I am giving the film a 3 because it’s still softcorinsh, but with a decent story.
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