I bought this DVD a few years ago when my appetite for old obscure films was in full swing, and I was spending entire paychecks on DVDs. I bought this not knowing at all what to expect, and was pleasantly surprised all around.
Eugenie is the story about the defiling and corruption of an innocent girl, by a step-brother/step-sister love-couple who are members of a sadistic cult, a cult which has the goals of re-enacting the works of De Sade using the flesh of young female virgins. The whole film has an air of dreamy, drugged hallucination, and Franco was on top of his game when he made this.
Everything seems to fit together with this film better than other Franco films of the same era. It's best counterpart would be Venus in Furs, my other candidate for favorite Franco film. The soundtrack and scenery from 1970 now serve as a time capsule, excellently crafted and executed, along with copious amounts of full frontal female nudity, a trait still in it's infancy at the time.
If you like films from the early days of the Ratings system, and like Franco-style exploitation films, than this is the perfect treat for you.
Eugenie is the story about the defiling and corruption of an innocent girl, by a step-brother/step-sister love-couple who are members of a sadistic cult, a cult which has the goals of re-enacting the works of De Sade using the flesh of young female virgins. The whole film has an air of dreamy, drugged hallucination, and Franco was on top of his game when he made this.
Everything seems to fit together with this film better than other Franco films of the same era. It's best counterpart would be Venus in Furs, my other candidate for favorite Franco film. The soundtrack and scenery from 1970 now serve as a time capsule, excellently crafted and executed, along with copious amounts of full frontal female nudity, a trait still in it's infancy at the time.
If you like films from the early days of the Ratings system, and like Franco-style exploitation films, than this is the perfect treat for you.