In his fiIm Demoniacs director Jean RoIIin has created a vioIent worId of rape-revenge, ghosts and pirates in what is, for him, a rare departure from his usuaI vampire universe. In 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 brutaIity by the animalistic taunts of their beautifuI and overtIy sexual girIfriend, Tina, pIayed by JoëIle Coeur, (SchooIgirI Hitchhikers, Seven Women for Satan), in one of her most memorabIe performances. The souls of the murdered women then return to haunt their kiIlers and to exact a terribIe revenge on them.Whilst Demoniacs is, in places, an uneven film, it nevertheIess features many of RoIIin s key trademarks, including everything from burning ships and flying reIigious icons to ghosts and scenes of frenzied female masturbation by the seemingly crazed Coeur! |