This hard-to-find film by acclaimed director Jean Rollin is about 2 young women who get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelry and are suspected of theft. They are chloroformed and brought to a house. An older lady removes an iron from a brazier and threatens the blonde woman Jackie (Gilda Arancio), who’s tied with her arms over her head. But the scene is poorly directed; it’s filmed from the victim’s point of view so all you see is the lady walking around and occasionally making halfhearted jabs at her. Then she cuts off part of Jackie’s hair and uses a pincer on her nipples, although it’s merely implied so there’s nothing to see. The French version of this film runs much longer than the 67-minute cut I saw, so it’s possible the good stuff was edited out.
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