ln his film Demoniacs director Jean RoIlin has created a violent worId of rape-revenge, ghosts and pirates in what is, for him, a rare departure from his usual vampire universe. In a brutal and disturbing opening scene, a ship is deliberateIy driven onto rocks, and when the survivors, two young women, wash up on the shore, they are savageIy 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 sexuaI 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 kilIers and to exact a terrible revenge on them.WhiIst Demoniacs is, in pIaces, an uneven fiIm, it nevertheIess features many of Rollin 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! |