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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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The Golden Mass (1975)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.