A family lives alone on an island like a horny version of the Swiss Family Robinson. Father (Robert Foster) is a former actor hiding from the spotlight. Since they are all alone on the island, there is nothing for them to do except masturbate and fuck. Mother (Carmen Carrion) is a pent-up dominatrix who whips her daughters, Desdemona (Lina Romay) and the mentally challenged Paulova (Susanna Kerr) whenever they get out of line. The dynamic on the island soon changes when a poacher (Tony Skios) shows up and lights a fire in the ladies’ panties.
The first fifteen minutes of Jess Franco’s The House of Lost Women is fantastic. First, Lina walks around the beach naked. Then, she comes home and starts playing with herself. Next, she lights a cigarette and smokes it with her pussy. Finally, she fucks a bowling trophy.
No wonder Jess Franco took one look at her and thought, “Marriage material.”
Other everyday household objects that are used as masturbatory materials: Decapitated doll heads and sliced oranges. I guess if you’ve been alone on an island for twenty years, you’re bound to try just about anything once.
Now, the first fifteen minutes may be some of the greatest shit Jess ever committed to celluloid, but the rest is a little on the uneven side. While there is no doubt some good shit here (like the scene where Carrion goes to town on Kerr with a bullwhip), it still lacks the charm and thrill of the first reel or so. The film also loses a little spark once Skios enters the fray. That said, there is plenty here to enjoy. I mean Lina Romay smokes a cigarette with her pussy. What more can one ask for?
Of the Franco signatures, there are of course, many lazy camera zooms and pans, several of which occur during a gorgeous sunset. His penchant for shooting Romay in the nude (half his filmography is devoted to it) crops up again as well as his use of a traditional family dynamic being shown as a hotbed for perversion and sadism (see also Sinfonia Erotica and countless others). As for his stock players, Romay and Foster are frequent Franco flyers, Carrion was in The Sexual Story of O, Kerr also appeared in Black Boots Leather Whip, and Skios was in Franco’s Sex is Crazy.
AKA: Perversion on the Lost Island.
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