Rent The Demoniacs (1974)
2.7 of 5 from 60 ratings
1h 35min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A group of shipwrecked sailors brutally rape two young women who accidentally stumble across them. After they escape, the women ultimately make a deal with the devil in exchange for the power to exact their bloody revenge.
- Actors:
- Joëlle Coeur, John Rico, Willy Braque, Paul Bisciglia, Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier, Louise Dhour, Ben Zimet, Mireille D'Argent, Miletic Zivomir, Isabelle Copejans, Yves Collignon, Véronique Fanis, Monica Swinn, Jacqueline Priest, Anna Watican, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Raphaël Marongiu, Sylvio Dieu, Gilbert Schnarrbach
- Directors:
- Jean Rollin
- Producers:
- Pierre Quérut, Lionel Wallmann
- Writers:
- Jean Rollin
- Aka:
- Les Demoniaques / Curse of the Living Dead
- Studio:
- Salvation Films
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 05/02/2018
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Trailers
- Contains footage not included in the original theatrical release
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/04/2024
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono, French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Three presentations of the film: the original theatrical version (100 mins); the longer, explicit export version (109 mins); and 'Curse ofthe Living Dead' (86 mins), the alternative English-language cut
- Export cut audio commentary with film expert Tim Lucas (2024)
- Selected scenes audio commentary with Jean Rollin (2005)
- Jean Rollin Introduces 'The Demoniacs' (1998, 3 mins)
- Un des demoniaques (2024, 21 mins): new presentation of an interview with regular Rollin collaborator Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
- The Iron Eagle (2024, 10 mins): newly edited archival interview with actor Willy Braque
- One Perfect Shot (2024, 9 mins): newly edited archival interview with actor Paul Bisciglia
- Vengeance and Purity (2024, 42 mins): critical appreciation by author and musician Stephen Thrower
- Outtake footage (2 mins)
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes
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Reviews (1) of The Demoniacs
Les Démoniaques/Demoniacs (1974) - The Demoniacs review by NP
I would usually describe the Jean Rollin films I have seen as ‘delightfully strange’. Despite the nudity and seductive nature of evil on display, they also have a kind of perverse innocence to them. No quite so much with Demoniacs.
Introducing the main characters in the opening credits, we get to know The Captain, Le Bosco and Paul are wreckers, Godless men who lure ships to the rocks and then plunder the wreckages. And there is also the voluptuous Tina, who enjoys great amusement at the deadly antics of her three friends/lovers.
[Plot spoilers]Two young blond women who survive the latest crash stagger, bedraggled onto the beach where the wreckers are up to no good. They ask for help but are instead repeatedly beaten and raped. After this, they escape the wreckers and enter into a kind of relationship with a human demon trapped in the picturesque ruins of a hidden city. The power they are given as a result of this allows them to appear to haunt the wreckers and taunt them before they are again captured and beaten (the Captain is now quite mad) and they all drown.
I point out these plot elements because I was left feeling unhappy about this film. The many beautifully shot, moody locations and occasional bouts of surreality (the inclusion of a clown as the demon’s ‘keeper’, for example) don’t detract from what is a pretty distasteful story that leaves a rather nasty taste in the mouth.
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