Ruthless Madame Arminda (ably played with lip-smacking wicked relish by the luscious Lina Romay) runs a high end brothel called the Pagoda, where abducted women are drugged and tortured. Decadent millionaire Amos Radeck (a gloriously disgusting portrayal by the rotund Vitor Mendes) tries to get his socialite daughter Martine (yummy blonde Martine Stedil) back from the Pagoda.
Director Jess Franco keeps the engrossingly sordid story moving at a quick pace, maintains a suitably seamy tone throughout, and delivers oodles of tasty bare female flesh along with a smattering of fairly graphic and sleazy carnality. Romay really sinks her teeth into her rare juicy villainess role and throws herself into her obligatory nude and sex scenes with trademark scorching uninhibited abandon. Franco acquits himself well in a sizeable part as Radeck's sadistic henchman. Erwin C. Dietrich's tough script offers a doozy of a surprise grim twist at the end. Both Peter Baumgartner's lush cinematography and William Baumgartner's groovy jazz score are up to par. One of Franco's better films from the mid-1970's.
Director Jess Franco keeps the engrossingly sordid story moving at a quick pace, maintains a suitably seamy tone throughout, and delivers oodles of tasty bare female flesh along with a smattering of fairly graphic and sleazy carnality. Romay really sinks her teeth into her rare juicy villainess role and throws herself into her obligatory nude and sex scenes with trademark scorching uninhibited abandon. Franco acquits himself well in a sizeable part as Radeck's sadistic henchman. Erwin C. Dietrich's tough script offers a doozy of a surprise grim twist at the end. Both Peter Baumgartner's lush cinematography and William Baumgartner's groovy jazz score are up to par. One of Franco's better films from the mid-1970's.