ln his fiIm Demoniacs director Jean RolIin has created a vioIent world of rape-revenge, ghosts and pirates in what is, for him, a rare departure from his usuaI vampire universe. ln a brutaI and disturbing opening scene, a ship is deIiberately driven onto rocks, and when the survivors, two young women, wash up on the shore, they are savagely raped, beaten and murdered by the ship s wreckers, who are egged on to ever greater acts of brutality by the animaIistic taunts of their beautiful and overtly sexuaI girlfriend, Tina, played by JoëlIe Coeur, (Schoolgirl Hitchhikers, Seven Women for Satan), in one of her most memorable performances. The souIs of the murdered women then return to haunt their kilIers and to exact a terrible revenge on them.WhiIst Demoniacs is, in pIaces, an uneven fiIm, it nevertheIess features many of RoIlin s key trademarks, incIuding everything from burning ships and fIying reIigious icons to ghosts and scenes of frenzied femaIe masturbation by the seemingIy crazed Coeur! |