Brigitte Lahaie and her boyfriend Didier Aubriot go to a disco where he picks up Susan Hemingway. He takes her back to their hotel where they have a three-way. Afterwards they knock poor Susan out and sell her into slavery. When the couple learns Hemingway is the daughter of a millionaire, they set out to re-kidnap her and collect a ransom for themselves.
Jess Franco’s I Burn All Over isn’t as cheap as some of his other productions. It does however start off with a memorable cost-cutting move as the opening credits are spoken aloud by narrators with echoed voices. That way, Franco didn’t have to pay someone to use a title generator. (Ironically, the trailer is nothing but the title with a narrator speaking over it as no footage from the film is ever shown.)
Your movie doesn’t really need a budget though when you have Brigitte Lahaie. She looks incredible throughout and delivers a solid performance as well. Franco is smart enough to know if she has to have a monologue that’s important to the plot, you might as well have her deliver it while totally nude.
In general, the scenes with Lahaie are the most entertaining, but the sequences with Hemingway in the orgy den have their moments. The first time she is thrown into the bowels of the slave pit and the drug-addled captives converge on the new recruit to give her a test spin is certainly hot. There’s also a random scene where a woman bangs her own reflection in the mirror.
I Burn All Over has a decent twist ending, but I was a little disappointed how Lahaie’s character was so abruptly and unceremoniously removed from the narrative. That shouldn’t stop the Franco faithful from checking it out though as it has all the obligatory camera zooms of a woman’s crotch you could ask for in an Uncle Jess movie. Many of the numerous sex scenes flirt with XXX territory too, which doesn’t hurt either.
It’s Aida (Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun) Vargas as the madam who gets the best line of the movie when describing Hemingway: “Her cunt is like a passion fruit!”
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