How to Seduce a Virgin

How to Seduce a Virgin

Directed by Jesús Franco

Produced by Comptoir Français du Film Production

197487 min5.0 / 10

A deeply disturbing 1970s horror-thriller about a deranged countess and her accomplices who collect the bodies of murdered women like macabre trophies.

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...

Questions people ask

  • Is How to Seduce a Virgin easy watching? No. Less comforting than 99% of films.

  • Does How to Seduce a Virgin end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 99% of films.

  • Is How to Seduce a Virgin scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Is How to Seduce a Virgin violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is How to Seduce a Virgin sad? Not especially. Less sad than 59% of films.

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20/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity57

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise15

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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