How to Seduce a Virgin

Jun 19, 1974

1h 27m

★ 4.9

Overview

Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and the mute servant girl Adèle, and impatiently demands the key to her mysterious private chamber. There, set out like exhibits in a waxwork, are the bodies of beautiful girls frozen in postures of terror on the point of death. With Mathias' help, Martine has just added another girl, a prostitute, to her collection when her husband and accomplice, Charles, arrives home with slides of a further prospective victim: Cécile the virginal daughter of a diplomat...

Genres

Drama

Horror

Thriller

Production Companies

Comptoir Français du Film Production

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Cast

Martine Bressac

Alice Arno

Mathias

Howard Vernon

Cécile

Tania Busselier

Malou

Alfred Baillou

Charles Bressac

Robert Woods

Adèle

Lina Romay

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