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(aka "La rose écorchée" or "Ravaged" or "The Scorched Rose" or "The Flayed Rose" )
directed by Claude Mulot
France 1970
THE BLOOD ROSE tells the story of
artist Frederic Lansac (Philippe Lemaire, THE OTHER SIDE
OF THE MIRROR) who throws over his mistress Moira
(Elizabeth Tessier, FRUSTRATION) for the beautiful and
innocent Anne (Anny Duperey, STAVISKY). More upset at
Lansac skipping her party where she plans to show him off,
Moira dressed as a fairy tale evil queen shows up uninvited
to Anne and Frederic's wedding party and causes Anne to fall
into a raging bonfire disfiguring her. Anne has her death
announced and shuts herself up in Lansac's castle. Lansac
hires pretty nurse Agnes to take care of Anne while he runs
his business in the city (a beauty institute that uses
poisonous hybrid plants for skin treatments). Lansac makes
the acquaintance of professor Romer (Howard Vernon of
AWFUL DR. ORLOFF, who dubs himself on the English track)
who takes care of the plants by day and surgically
transforms the faces of criminals by night. Lansac
blackmails the professor into trying to restore his wife's
face using living transplants. Jealous of Agnes' beauty,
Anne kills the nurse with one of the poisonous plants. Her
disappearance prompts the interest of her sister Barbara who
poses as a writer doing a tour guide of ancient chateaus and
is deemed by Anne to be the perfect face donor. |
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Theatrical Release: October 1970 (USA)
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DVD Review: Mondo Macabro - Region 0 - NTSC
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 1:34:00 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.63:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Audio | French (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono); English (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono) | |
Subtitles | English, none | |
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Edition Details: Chapters 16 |
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The image is dual-layered, anamorphic and progressive with attractive saturated colors but while the softness is pleasing during bright scenes, dark scenes at times suffer but this fault may lie with the original materials and/or the filtering by cinematographer Roger Fellous. The quality of the English track doesn't quite equal the image track but it may be that better materials may have disappeared with US distributor Allied Artists (whose closing down also resulted in the loss of footage removed from the negative of Mario Bava's LISA AND THE DEVIL). The French track sounds cleaner but is encoded at a lower volume. English subtitles on the French track translate all of the dialogue (save for one line later on) and all of the onscreen text but there is no such option for the text when playing the film with the English track.
Director Claude Mulot (who adopted this film's protagonists name Frederic Lansac for his infamous foray into adult film PUSSY TALK) died in a swimming accident in the eighties but his longtime associate Didier Philippe-Gerard provides a 30 minute interview that spends only 5 minutes talking about THE BLOOD ROSE but goes gives a fairly comprehensive overview of Mulot's filmography and French filmmaking in the sixties and seventies (like Jean Rollin, Mulot made a risque film debut during the Paris riots in 1968 and ran into the same challenges in the late seventies when hardcore pornography replaced erotic films and in the eighties when genre film production all but died). As with other Mondo Macabro titles, the text screen liner notes should not be passed over as they are very informative rather than the usual ad copy. Besides a still and poster gallery for the film (which includes the cover of a French tape release nonsensically titled DEVIL'S MANIAC), Mondo Macabro's usual preview reel rounds out the extras. |
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