A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.
Direction
Polselli's unhinged zooms and feverish editing create genuine dissociation.
Acting
Performers commit to abjection with disturbing, almost documentary conviction.
Director
Renato Polselli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 'cinema of transgression' wave post-1968, where political disillusionment curdled into nihilistic body horror. Polselli explicitly cited Pasolini's Salò as influence.
The film was prosecuted for obscenity in multiple countries; prints were destroyed, making the surviving version a Frankenstein of different censorship cuts. What you're seeing may not be what Polselli intended — or maybe it's worse.
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