The film did well in Europe, but the run of the film in France and the U.S. The film premiered on 6 January 1975 at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival and was released theatrically in Germany on 6 February 1981. Pascale Rivault as Clarisse de l'Esperance.Marcel Dalio as Rammondelo, Duke of Balo.Pierre Benedetti as Mathurin de l'Esperance.Virginia comforts the terrified Lucy as they speed away in the car, and Lucy dreams that she is naked in the forest again, this time burying the beast. They run out of the house in terror as the Cardinal arrives. Pulling his clothes off reveals that he is covered in thick black hair and has a tail, indicating that he is a descendant of Romilda and the beast. Virginia examines Mathurin's body and discovers that a plaster cast on his arm conceals a claw for a hand. She runs naked through the house screaming, and everyone runs to her aid. Lucy wakes and walks into Mathurin's room to find him dead on the floor. Eventually, the beast dies of exhaustion. The beast continues to masturbate, and Lucy rubs his ejaculate all over herself. She visits his room again, but he is still sleeping soundly. She wakes again and is convinced that Mathurin must have visited her. Lucy returns to her room, masturbates, and dreams that the beast is copulating with her. She tiptoes to Mathurin's room, but he is asleep, fully clothed, on his bed. Lucy wakes up in a sweat and wonders if it was merely a dream. She loses most of her clothing in the process and ends up hanging by her arms from a branch, and the beast licks her and masturbates. In the ensuing comic dream sequence, the beast with a large visible erection chases Lucy through the forest. Angrily interrupting the conversation, Pierre slits Rammaendelo's throat with a razor and tears the phone out of the wall. Pierre overhears Rammaendelo on the telephone with the Cardinal trying to dissuade him from performing the marriage. Seeing a lamb straying into the forest, she chases after it to find that it has been torn apart by a black hairy beast.
Lucy retires to her room, undresses, puts on her thin wedding dress, and dreams that she is Romilda, playing the harpsichord. With everyone having drunk too much wine, most of the assembly falls asleep while waiting for the Cardinal. Lucy and her aunt try to leave but are persuaded to stay. Rammaendelo cannot get through to the Cardinal on the telephone, so Pierre sends a telegram, assuring him that Mathurin has been baptized and urging him to attend this evening.Įveryone assembles for dinner, and Mathurin's uncouth manners become apparent. Pierre blackmails Rammaendelo into persuading his brother to perform the marriage by telling him that he has proof that Rammaendelo poisoned his wife. Lucy comes across several drawings depicting bestiality and becomes sexually excited at the thought of her impending marriage, even though she has never met Mathurin. Rammaendelo, who is not in favor of the marriage because he is dependent on Mathurin to look after him, shows her a book that describes the beautiful Romilda's fight with a beast in the local forest 200 years ago. They find a back route to the house at a back door to the house, where Lucy asks Rammaendelo about rumors. Lucy and her aunt, Virginia, are driven by their chauffeur toward the farm, but a fallen tree blocks their way. Pierre summons the local priest to the house for the baptism, but Pierre, by promising the priest repairs to his church and a new bell, performs the ritual himself so that the priest will not find out the truth about Mathurin. Mathurin, who manages the family horse-breeding business, is dim-witted and deformed and has never been baptized. She is to be married by Cardinal Joseph do Balo, the brother of Pierre's uncle, the crippled Duc Rammaendelo de Balo, who shares their crumbling farmhouse with Pierre's daughter Clarisse, and their servant Ifany. Businessman Philip Broadhurst dies and leaves his estate to his daughter, Lucy, on the condition that she marries Mathurin, Marquis Pierre de l'Esperance's son, within six months.
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