La bête (1975)

Original title

La Bête

Directed by

Walerian Borowczyk

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, erotic film, werewolf film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 182 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman travels to a French estate where she dreams of a monstrous beast. The story involves her relationship with a strange creature. The film blends horror with explicit sexual content.

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What happens

The Beast (French: La Bête) is a 1975 French erotic horror film written, edited, and directed by Walerian Borowczyk. Although sometimes compared with Beauty and the Beast, there are no parallels in the plot except that it features the relationship between a beast (monster) and a woman. The film was noted for its explicit sexual content, including teratophilia (attraction to monsters), upon its initial release. It has become a cult film. A loose adaptation of the novella Lokis by Prosper Mérimée was originally conceived in 1972 as a film on its own. However, Borowczyk later rendered Lokis as a story (La véritable histoire de la bête du Gévaudan) in Immoral Tales (1974), which was envisaged to be a film of six stories. After Immoral Tales was remastered as a film of four stories, the footage became the dream sequence of The Beast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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