Demoniacs, The: Unrated Extended Cut

Demoniacs, The: Unrated Extended Cut

A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, The Demoniacs (Les Gemoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered. The ghostly sisters haunt the Captain and obtain help from a mysterious clown (Mirielle d'Argent) who leads them to an impressive disused cathedral. There they meet a gnostic priest (Ben Zimet) standing guard over a cell that harbors the Devil himself (Miletic Zivomir), who empowers the angelic girls sexually with the evil necessary to exact their vengeance.

If ever one of Rollin's films was presided over by a singular compelling presence, it is that of Joelle Coeur, the mysterious auburn-tressed female lead. As Tina the Wrecker, Coeur seems to incarnate the perverse libido, stripping a publicly pleasuring herself while in thrall to the and pillage of her gruff associates.