Ravaged / Blonde & the Black Pussycat (1970 / 1969) UK Quad Poster

Marketed as the world's first 'sex-horror film', (although lesbian scenes were removed for the US release), Ravaged is a pastiche of Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) by way of Corruption (1968), with a gothic sensibility, sinister dwarfs and Howard Vernon as the surgeon who can never get his face-grafting technique quite right. It all looks more suptuous than it deserves to, courtesy of lighting by Roger Fellous, who only a few years before had shot Bunuel's Diary of a Housemaid (1964).

The Blonde and the Black Pussycat is a German sex-comedy directed by Italian Giuseppe Zaccariello (one of his only two directed films), who is better known as the screenwriter and producer of Mario Bava's Bay of Blood (1971).

Aka: La rose écorchée, The Blood Rose / Tous les petits chats sont gourmands, All Kitties Go for Sweeties

Cast: Phillipe Lemaire, Anny Duperey, Michelle Pirello - Edwige Fenech, Sieghardt Rupp