FORMAT: BLU-RAY
A young Duke named Lionello (Mark Damon) returns home to find out his sister Barbara (Claudia Gravy) has gotten married. That pisses the Duke off to no end because he’s got the hots for his sister. To make matters worse, he can’t make it with any other woman, which gives him a creepy reputation in the village. When a killer in a black cloak goes around stabbing naked women in the throat with a three-pronged knife, Lionello quickly becomes a person of interest. But is the killer human, or is it a supernatural creature driven by lust and revenge?
Byleth: The Demon of Incest is a solid little slice of Eurosleaze. Despite the lurid title, the film is handled with a surprising amount of restraint. Not to worry, there’s still plenty of gratuitous T & A and healthy doses sex and violence to go around. It’s just that it’s not nearly as icky as it could’ve been, considering the subject matter. In fact, the final incestual coupling is handled rather… dare I say… tastefully. Too bad the ultimate confrontation with the demon is so anticlimactic.
Mark Damon is typically a bland leading man, and that mostly describes him here. However, the characters he usually plays are cut-and-dry bland characters. In Byleth: The Demon of Incest, he’s cast as what at the outset seems like your average Mark Damon role. Since he’s sort of a tweaked freak masquerading as a bland character, it works in Damon’s favor. He doesn’t exactly hit it out of the park or anything, but his stilted blandness is creepier than if he chewed the scenery and tried to be scary. The lovely Gravy is quite good too as the object of his affection, and the many ladies in the cast are equally alluring, especially the sultry Silviana Pompili, who plays Damon’s new doomed girlfriend.
AKA: Byleth.
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