Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate.
Cinematography
Lisbon nightlife shot like a melting hallucination.
Costume
Janine Reynaud's dominatrix looks that defined Euro-horror chic.
Direction
Franco at his most controlled—which means barely.
Director
Jesús Franco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in two weeks with a German-Spanish-Portuguese co-production, this exemplifies the 'Euro-cult' factory of the 60s where art and exploitation merged.
The nightclub sequences were filmed at an actual Lisbon club with real patrons—several of whom had no idea they were in a horror film.
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