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• The Beast - (La Bete) (1975) | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Beast is an erotic masterpiece from the most controversial exponent of the genre-Walerian Borowczyk. This sexual fantasia caused outrage when it was first screened in 1975 and was refused a certificate until 26 years later. A modern day version of 'Beauty and the Beast', The Beast is the story of a young American heiress, Lucy Broadhurst, betrothed to the mentally unstable heir to a French aristocratic dynasty. Dark rumours abound about a mystical 'beast' and on the night of her wedding Lucy is visited by strange and erotic dreams.Set in a beautiful gothic chateau, the film features hilarious couplings, not so pure clergy and unwholesome secrets shot in a superb brushstroke style, climaxing in what has to be one of the most erotic, and at the same time hilarious finales of all time.