Black Candles
Director José Ramón Larraz later said of the film following its release, "No-one in that film could act. So what do you do with them? You put them in bed and have them jump on each other.",(at around 21 mins) Carol's brother is supposed to have died quite recently, but when she goes to visit his grave at the church where he is buried his supposed gravestone is not new as it should be, but obviously several decades old.,[first lines]
Peter Andrew: [while holding Annaliese's pendant] The devil's paw.,The 18-rated UK Redemption video of this film was cut by 5 seconds by the BBFC to remove a shot of a man being stabbed between the buttocks by a sword during a torture scene.,Featured in Eurotika!: From Barcelona... to Tunbridge Wells (1999),I'm not ruining anything when I inform you that you get to see a woman have sex with a goat in this movie. If that is your thing, then your movie has arrived.

A woman and her husband go to see her estranged sister in the family mansion in the woods. Her sister is a creepy lady to say the least, and she seems to have interests that go beyond family love. On the side a group of unsavory characters show up and begin enacting all kinds of pagan rituals.

The plotting is pretty weak and the characters are pretty dumb. The woman sticks around even after her husband starts turning into a jerk and hanging out with the pagans, even continues the have sex with him. On the exploitative side of things, there is much bared flesh and a couple of kinky couplings, but nothing that hasn't been better somewhere else. Oh, and the aforementioned goat-sex scene.

Most viewers won't make it to the end. Exploitation fans will ride it out, but will be left wanting more.

4/10,