31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Lucifer's Women

Lucifer's Women
91 mins.
Dir. Paul Aratow
1974/USA


It's the 70s and Satanism is in!  Another film to jump on the occult band wagon in the 70s is this somewhat softcore, Satanic, previously lost, mess of a film called Lucifer's Women.  Bare with me as I try to explain this convoluted plot, as this one took a few attempts to sit through.

Larry Hankin, (you would know him if you saw him, guy has been in countless TV shows and movies, mostly comedic stuff.  Though here he plays it straight.) is an illusionist who just wrote a book about re-incarnation and also believes he is the re-incarnation of Svengali.  His skeevy publisher is like, hey I am re-incarnated too.  I'm a High Priest in a Satanic Coven called the Society of the Bleeding Rose.  We should team up to replenish our psychic energy with a human sacrifice.  So Svengali goes to the local burlesque club to use his hypnotic powers to lure Trilby into the coven.  Here is how it works, Trilby will need to kill the publisher at the stroke of midnight on her 21st birthday at the moment of orgasm, so he can transcend into another body.  No pressure or anything, seems totally doable.  Except one thing, Larry/Svengali starts to fall in love with Trilby and it weakens his psychic connection between himself and Svengali.  Throw in a subplot about a pimp who wants to also sleep with Trilby and uses her cocaine addicted roommate who is sleeping with them both to set it up.



The poster for this movie states that in 1954 three women have claimed to have made love to the devil himself.  1) This movie does not take place in 1954, 2) Three women in this movie do not make love to the devil, though I believe a least one is fornicated by some goat mask wearing guy and 3) I am pretty sure the word Lucifer is not uttered in the entire movie.  However, Anton LaVey is credited as consultant for the Black Mass scenes, because you know, they were really looking for authenticity in this low budget exploitation flick.  Believe it or not, this movie bombed at the box office, I know shocking.  Al Adamson steps in, shoots some new scenes to replace all the nudity, creates a new story and they call it Doctor Dracula and sell it to television.  Lucky for you Vinegar Syndrome has both version on their blu ray of Lucifer's Women.  So you can let me know how that version is, because I think attempting to sit through this was enough to last me quite awhile before I try out the alternate version.



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