The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971)

1971
December 27, 2020

The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end. When a plane explodes in the air with no survivors, the unfaithful Lisa Baumer is informed that her husband, businessman Baumer, left a one-million-dollar insurance policy and she is the beneficiary. She travels […]

The Chambermaid’s Dream (1971) aka Frustration

1971

A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and the latter’s husband, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies. Adélaïde is a sexually repressed woman who lives with her sister Agnès and her sister’s doctor husband Michel in a large house in the middle of the snowy nowhere of Europe. Observing the affection and overhearing the sounds of lovemaking between the couple soon begin to shatter the mind of hers, and she begins […]