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Young, pretty and innocent Amy is almost raped and killed one day while
walking through the countryside, but saved by widowed aristocrat Gideon,
who takes her to his nearby castle to nurse her back to health. Of course,
she falls in love with him, and even after she finds a woman chained up in
his basement, something he explains away a bit clumsily. Then though, she
meets a couple of other beautiful women who apparently live in his castle
as well, and they seem by far not as innocent as he is, rather seem to be
Gideon's love slaves. Gideon seems to have some guests today, too,
neighbours in expectation of an orgy. Amy runs away, but the other girls
are more than willing to submit to their guests' wishes ... Eventually,
Amy is drawn back to the castle, but once she's in, she finds all doors to
the outside have been locked, and she and all the other girls end up in a
cage, as if they were Gideon's collection of sex pets. Gideon shows up,
admitting that he has been a horrible person, collecting women to fulfill
his sexual pleasures only, treating them like sex slaves ... but his
meeting with Amy has changed all that - and then ... he and Amy have sex
on the beach, and he seems to be cured - until another woman shows up, and
Gideon claims to be a widower - and the picture showing his late wife is
that of Amy ... Jean Rollin left his mark on the filmworld in
the late 1960's and spanning into the early 1970's making arthouse horror
erotica. By the mid-1970's however, erotic filmmaking had pretty much gone
the hardcore route, so to afford to make the films he wanted to make,
Rollin had to churn out the occasional hardcore feature as well - and Phantasmes
was one of the first. And to quite some extent, the film still shows
Rollin's trademarks like a trippy storyline, an emphasis on atmosphere and
stretches of cinematic lyricism. However, Jean Rollin's natural cinematic
language is of the metaphoric kind, and once the extended (hardcore) orgy
scene kicks in, this is thrown out of the window (almost by definition),
which somehow really destroys the mood of the movie (and believe me, this
is not prude me speaking, in general I can enjoy an orgy just as much as
the next man), making it just another hardcore feature (if a pretty weird
one). That said, the film is still a must for all serious Jean Rollin
fans, because it does show Rollin's efforts to come to terms with the new
genre without really compromising his style - he just didn't succeed 100%
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