Elisabeth Kaza, Guy Tréjan, Lisbeth Hummel

The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French ...( read more  read more... )countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.

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NC-17, 93 min.

Directed by: Walerian Borowczyk

Release Date: January 1, 1975

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DVD Release Date: November 8, 2005

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  • August 7, 2008
    holy crap, what an interesting take on the Beauty and the Beast story with some Bunuelian sensibilities. Hilarious stuff!
  • April 27, 2008
    I wanted to like this a lot more than I did, but as a whole it came across as amateurish and juvenile, a weak framework being used as an excuse to show sexually "shocking" imagery. Great, now I've seen horses mate. Oh wow, they're showing that guy's johnson. Sex and sexual ima...( read more)gery can have meaning and can be truly daring, but there needs to be an artistically perceivable point. I found no such thing in The Beast, which largely left me just bored despite all the supposedly lustful ongoings.
  • October 13, 2006
    Oddly intriguing. Perverse and challenging.
  • September 27, 2006
    Borowczyk's notorious erotic fable. Wonderfully wicked and quite beautiful in its own perverse way.
  • June 21, 2006
    The Beast is an adept title for this curious piece of Eurosleaze which opens with several shots of copulating horses and close-ups of their "throbbing" genitalia. The perversity level is then ratcheted up during the film with memorable scenes including a female masturbation seque...( read more)nce that brings a new meaning to the term "green fingers" and an unbelievably twisted beast-woman "romp".

    The film caused quite a stir on its release and it's not difficult to see why given its content. Some will no doubt bin this within the first 10 minutes but if you are someone who likes to explore cinema on the fringes then this is certainly worth a look.
  • October 15, 2009
    Hilarious, taboo-breaking.
  • May 28, 2009
    Nobody can do erotic films like the French!
  • September 27, 2008
    ughhh don't even get me started, this movie is so fucked up and gross! but it did make me laugh a little bit.
  • April 28, 2008
    I was taken by surprise to see that this film turn out to be a weird one.Is like watching a twisted & exotic tale of beauty & the beast.The film is extremely bizarre & explicit.You have to be in the right mood for this film but is quite a shocking one.
  • November 12, 2007
    Deep within this run of the mill mystery is an incredible, strange and sexy scene. The true story of the beauty and the beast.

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  • dikiz
    November 23, 2007
    This movie is enigmatic, immoral, disgusting but fascinating and sexy.
    The most provokating movie of all times.

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