A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Cinematography
Hazy chateau interiors that breathe Gothic decay.
Costume
Those sheer black gowns are doing heavy lifting.
Direction
Rollin's hypnotic, barely-coherent nightmare logic.
Director
Jean Rollin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in and around a real abandoned chateau near Paris, which Rollin stumbled upon while location scouting another film.
Brigitte Lahaie was France's biggest adult film star; Rollin casting her brought art-house credibility to exploitation cinema.
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