Seven Women for Satan (1976) [Mondo Macabro]

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Seven Women for Satan (Les Week-ends maléfiques du Comte Zaroff) is a 1976 French horror film that takes as its starting point the 1932 American movie The Most Dangerous Game, which told the story of an insane nobleman who enjoyed hunting people for sport.

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The Count Zaroff of Seven Women for Satan (played by Michel Lemoine who also wrote and directed the film) is superficially far more civilised. He works at an office job in the city, although he lives in an old chateau. He springs from an ancient line of aristocrats who certainly weren’t beyond torturing the local peasantry as a leisure activity (and the chateau has a large and fully equipped torture chamber to prove it) but the current count has abandoned such barbaric pleasures.

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The taste for cruelty is still in the blood though, and the count’s butler Karl (whose family has served the counts for generations) is determined to re-awaken this instinct. He promised his father on his deathbed that he would encourage the young count to keep up the family tradition of murder, mayhem and torture. And the count, on the surface rather meek and mild and even perhaps a tad oversensitive, does have dreams that involve hunting down and slaughtering young women on horseback.

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Under Karl’s influence the count’s sanity starts to crumble, and he is haunted by visions of his now deceased former girlfriend, and there are hints he may in fact have been involved in some way in her death. The line between reality and his violent fantasies becomes increasingly blurred. Lemoine and Howard Vernon (as Karl) give fine performances and it’s a fairly effective piece of horror film-making. Guy Bonnet’s truly bizarre score is also an asset.

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The picture quality is acceptable although not as pristine as the other Mondo Macabro releases I’ve seen, and the DVD includes a very good interview with Lemoine who is both charming and fascinating. Seven Women for Satan is both less weird and less interesting than some of the other eurohorror being produced in the mid-70s but it should still satisfy most eurohorror fans. But be warned, this movie contains large amounts of gratuitous go-go dancing.

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Holy s**t! Watching this film last night was the most fun I've had with a film in some time. This French sleaze-fest kind of riffs on The Most Dangerous Game at times, but with a revenge story (featuring Jess Franco regular Howard Vernon playing both himself and his father - with a fake beard!), elements of the supernatural, past lives, many a dream sequence, torture, lots of nudity, a hella-groovy soundtrack, a trippy, psychedelic atmosphere, and every-f**kin'-thing.

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You've gotta love a film where the lead actor is also the writer and director - somebody might have been having some delusions of grandeur - but his performance is so completely over the top, his dialogue so jaw-droppingly inept ("Rebecca, you're broken. My poor little rag doll…"), his mugging to the camera so much like he's at a world class gurning competition - you've gotta love it.

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Mind you, he's not on his Pat Malone there; the supporting cast give it everything they've got, too. Get a load of this - so Count Zaroff (our protagonist) has just topped yet another busty French chick, and immediately after this a young couple whose car has broken down appear on the doorstep asking for shelter. When they get into their room, the first thing the chick does is pull off her top and start dancing about shaking her cans, despite the fact that there's no music that she can hear (there's soundtrack, but she can't hear it). Anyway, she looks out a window to see the dead chick on the lawn. She freaks, acting all histrionic and calls her fella over to see. The body's been carried off however, and so the bf sees nothing. Now she's all shouty and emotional, but the second the boyfriend tells her there's nothing there, like flicking a switch she's back to shaking her boobies. This scenario is repeated 3 times, ending with the boyfriend warning her, "If you call me over again, there will be a dead woman on the lawn…you!" Ahh, love - there's nothing like it. You should see what happens to them later in the film…

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Let's hear some love for this slice of 24 carat sleaze, and for the fine folks at Mondo Macabro for rescuing it from the depths of obscurity. If you're all about the sleaze and you haven't seen Seven Women For Satan, RUN, don't walk, to get it!

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Special Features:
- Featurette: Formidable! - the Michel Lemoine story: featuring an exclusive interview with the films director (15:36)
- Trailer (01:36)
- Brand new anamorphic widescreen transfer
- Extensive cast and crew biogs

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