Director Jess Franco has a penchant for tying naked women to St. Andrew’s crosses, and he does so again in this inquisition film by stretching luscious Anne Libert on an X frame. While a chubby aristocrat tries unsuccessfully to get her to admit to witchcraft, a crimson-hooded goon pulls a variety of metal tools from a flaming brazier and applies them to various parts of Anne’s anatomy. A giant pair of heated tongs are clamped around her leg. What looks like an iron hedge trimmer is used to slice at her nipples. And finally a searing spiked ball is rolled all over her body. In several translations of this film the dubbing is terrible (in some it sounds like Anne is getting off on her torture), and the victim sports a distractingly unkempt bush, but it’s a worthwhile scene nonetheless.
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