'La Papesse' (1975) - Mario Mercier.

'A Woman Possessed' aka 'La Papesse' (1975) is a wickedly wild, magisterially malefic, psychedelically over-cooked, orgiastically occult pot-boiler from gorgeously Gallic sleaze-hound extraordinaire Mario Mercier. There's more than a pungently witchy whiff of Sadeian malfeasance in director Mercier's ultra-lurid, fabulously-fleshly confection of triumphantly tasteless titillation. If Kult UK doomsters Electric Wizard ever made voyeuristic skeevey-Satanic horror films, this would most certainly be one of 'em! With the glorious exception of personal filmmaking god, the master vampire impresario Jean Rollin, la belle France isn't especially known for its frequent explorations into the Satanic skinflick oeuvre, so that is all the more reason to warmly embrace this delightfully disreputable movie miscreant's blissfully unexpurgated trawl through the occult mire. Much of this delectable filth is riotously redolent of perverse polymath Jess Franco's no less exquisite 'Exorcism', with director Mario Mercier having no doubt opened Coffin Joe's perfectly prurient Pandora's Box of sensationally inflamed phantasmagoria to inspire his own ignominious descent into exploitation-horror hell! And I absolutely must sing the worthy praises of the ferociously funky, deliciously dark-vibe-inducing electronic score by maestro Eric Demarsan, delivering some sweetly slinky tuneage for this sublimely fleshly heft of salaciously steamy, 1970s, far-out, 'Witch-cult' Sinema.

 

'Your night vision will improve drastically over time!'

'....until they meet the dominator! Fear the Dominator! Do what thy wilt but fear The Dominator!'

'It's a look at my super-busy necklace moment!'

'Snacking means REALLY different things to different folk!'

'This for me, get your own bloody goblets!'

'The director digs me standing here, whereas I feel like a right pumpernickel!'