How to Seduce a Virgin

How to Seduce a Virgin

1974 · 87 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama, Horror, Thriller

Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and the mute servant girl Adèle, and impatiently demands the key to her mysterious private chamber. There, set out like exhibits in a waxwork, are the bodies of beautiful girls frozen in postures of terror on the point of death. With Mathias' help, Martine has just added another girl, a prostitute, to her collection when her husband and accomplice, Charles, arrives home with slides of a further prospective victim: Cécile the virginal daughter of a diplomat...

Directed by Jesús Franco · Written by Jesús Franco

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Alice Arno Martine Bressac
Howard Vernon Mathias
Tania Busselier Cécile
Alfred Baillou Malou
Robert Woods Charles Bressac
Lina Romay Adèle

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