The “original” Beast is the segment that now appears as Lucy’s dream. The Beast was originally intended as a segment of Immoral Tales, but Borowczyk decided to expand it to feature length.After 1972 Borowczyk’s career took a turn towards the explicitly erotic/pornographic when he began work on Immoral Tales, a portmanteau of erotic shorts based on literary sources or historical personages (Erzsebet Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia).He moved on to live action art house features like Goto, Island of Love (1969) and Blanche (1972), which were respectable and well-received. Walerian Borowczyk began his career making highly regarded surreal animated short films.The first night she stays in the de l’Esperance chateau, Lucy has a erotic dream about a Victorian lady ravished in the forest by a beast. The de l’Esperance family harbors many secrets, including the story of an ancestor from centuries ago who went missing and whose corset was discovered covered in claw marks.
PLOT: Lucy, an impressionable young heiress, comes to France for an arranged marriage with Mathurin de l’Esperance, the socially awkward scion of an aristocratic family. For the exotic and the erotic-and the downright weird-had always been part of Borowczyk’s cinematic universe.”–Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs, “ Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984”įEATURING: Guy Tréjan, Lisbeth Hummel, Pierre Benedetti, Sirpa Lane Or perhaps, if you looked hard enough, there was. “There was nothing in his previous output-a respectable career that stretched back to the late 1940s-to prepare the viewer for this terrible outrage.
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