Cynthia (Lina Romay) is the top stripper at a posh seaside night club,
but she also does a bit of whoring on the side, preferably with wealthy
customers. But when Alpha (Evelyne Scott) asks her to join her and her
partner in a threesome, she gets much more than she asks for, because
Alpha puts her under her own hypnotic spell and turns her pussy into a
deadly weapon. Then she sends her off to seduce Madame Pécame (Monica
Swinn) ... Doctor Seward (Jess Franco) has long known about Alpha, who's
actually a being from another dimension who ... well, not sure about her
motives, but she needs to kill certain people, and Cynthia is her weapon
of choice. But despite all of his knowledge, the doctor only gets hold of
Cynthia after she has killed Madame Pécame. Cynthia though thinks Doc
Seward is against her rather than Alpha and runs away, right back into
Alpha's arms ... who subjects her to some shock treatment to make her her
best submissive again, then sends her after Karma (Olivier Mathot), a
researcher into other dimension, and Cynthia gets him to shag her in no
time ... to deadly consequences. When Doctor Seward arrives on the scene
though, Cynthia is already dying, too, because what Alpha has done to her
pussy to make her a deadly weapon wasn't exactly a health treatment ... Though
Jess Franco is at the height of his game, directionwise, getting the most
out of architecture and landscapes, surprising the viewer with unexpected
but interesting camera movements and the like, and Lina Romay looks her
best, and she's in the nude a lot, Shining Sex is not one of their
better films. Basically the film is based on too weird a concept to be
brought across as a mere series of sex scenes, and it could have really
done with a bit of a budget to actually work. Plus, unfortunately the
film's also rather irony free, which is something that has saved many an
other Jess Franco movie. That said, still a hot little film, as Lina's
really stunning in this one, but nothing you'll remember for long.
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