Obscene Desire

A blurry Lou Castel thinks he’s putting the moves on Marisa Mell, but she clearly has two other things on her mind; a J and a B.

Verson Jetorix “Aristocrat Andrea Orsomandi brings his new wife Marisa Mell back to his familial estate where she is immediately uncomfortable. Orsomandi is under a curse; his ancestors killed a pregnant witch, and she cursed the seventh generation of his family that they would bear her dead child. Marisa is pregnant. There are definitely echoes of Rosemary’s Baby here, with a few other ideas as well. It’s one of the sexed-up Gothics produced at this time in the cycle; it looks good and has good locations but the direction is poor and it was disowned by its director Giulio Petroni. It is certainly a showcase for Mell, in more ways than one. Lou Castel also stars. A curio.”