The extravagant Duke de Haussemont (Jose Nieto, FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR) throws a fashion show and has invited Claire Grandier (Silvia Solar, THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI) to conduct a surprise seance. Claire is the former Countess of Moncoran, whose husband killed himself after his family fortune's dwindled and the duke's late brother bought up his stables. Now, she has gone back to her maiden name and lives in anonymity as a spiritualist in collaboration with Dr. Gruber (Olivier Mathot, REVENGE IN THE HOUSE OF USHER) who has been experimenting with cell regeneration and also possesses powers of telepathy. The duke asks Claire to contact his late brother. Although the seance is interrupted, the duke is sufficiently impressed to invite Claire and Dr. Gruber to stay at his chateau and continue their experiments in exchange for teaching him the ways of the occult. The Claire accepts his proposition, takes on a dwarf sidekick (Ronnie Harp), and digs up a blue-skinned corpse (Moisés Augusto Rocha, HORROR STORY) to wreak her vengeance against the duke. The professor injects the body with a serum to regenerate its cells and Claire invokes the spirit of Astaroth to possess the corpse and do their bidding. After the duke's mysterious death, his photographer nephew Richard (Daniel Martin, DEMON WITCH CHILD) inherits the house. He allows Clair and Dr. Gruber to stay on, but Gruber has a weak heart and is losing control of the zombie, who goes on a murderous rampage. The French/Spanish THE DEVIL'S KISS (aka THE WICKED CARESS OF SATAN) is a bit of a clunky throwback to the Italian gothic horror pics of the sixties spiced up with some seventies nudity. Had the sex scenes not been so ugly (and so obviously inserted into a production tailored for the still strict Spanish censorship of the time), the special effects more proficient, and the script more focused (dwarves, scantily-clad models, and affairs between servants, and servants and masters merely fill out the running time), this film might have made a good double bill with the 1972 Spanish/Italian gothic horror IVANNA/SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER. Martin's playboy heir makes for an uninteresting hero in the second half of the film. Maria Silva (TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD) shows up late in the film to be menaced by the monster. Carlos Otero (THE KILLER WORE GLOVES) turns up as chateau's butler, Victor Israel briefly appears as a leering party guest, and Evelyne Scott (SHINING SEX) is the chambermaid who is killed by the monster and reanimated with a penchant for stabbing her lovers. Mathot, Solar, Otero,Israel, Scott, and Richard Kolin (EYEBALL) would all turn up together again in THE MAN WITH THE SEVERED HEAD/CRIMSON, another French/Spanish Eurocine release.