Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält (1973)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Adrian Hoven

Writers:

Michael Armstrong (writer)
Fred Denger (writer)

Release Date:

26 January 1973 (West Germany)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Ten Scenes That You Will Positively Not Be Able to Stomach!

Plot:

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition. |

Plot Keywords:

Torture | Disturbing | Witch Hunt | Sadism | Sequel

Cast

Erika Blanc	...	Elisabeth von Salmenau
Anton Diffring	...	Balthasar von Ross
Percy Hoven	...	Alexander von Salmenau
Lukas Ammann
Jean-Pierre Zola
Astrid Kilian	...	Clementine
Ellen Umlauf
Harry Hardt
Rosemarie Heinikel	...	Pomponne (as Rosy Rosy)
Dietrich Kerky
Johannes Buzalski
Reggie Nalder	...	Natas

Also Known As:

Mark of the Devil II
Witches: Violated and Tortured to Death

Runtime:

UK:90 min | USA:97 min

Country:

West Germany | UK

Language:

German

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:-16 | West Germany:18 | Australia:(Banned) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Atlas

Movie Connections:

Edited into Invasion of the Scream Queens (1992)

Even worse than the first one

If you liked the original "Mark of the Devil" (I didn't personally), this is more of the same. The witch-hunters have been pared down to Reggie Nalder, the weirdest looking but least talented of the various actors in the first one. The movie does have a strong female lead this time in Erica Blanc as a noblewoman who opposes the corrupt witch-hunter Nalder and gets accused herself for her troubles, falling into the witch-hunter's lecherous clutches. Despite some tantalizing stills I've seen of this movie, Blanc does NOT get naked in the version I saw thus making the whole thing pretty worthless. If you just don't like Blanc (or women in general) and you want to see her/them gratuitously tortured or raped by Nalder's giant mongoloid assistant, then I'm sure you'll enjoy this much more than I did.

This movie is even half an ass short of the half-ass social criticism of the historical abuses of the Church which is usually found in these films. The sole point of interest, besides the wasted presence of Blanc, is that the film was directed by Adrian Hoven, the producer of the first one and a one time actor and producer for Jesus Franco. Whatever Hoven's talents were though, directing wasn't one of them--his work here ranges from unimaginative to downright laughable (such as when he shoots a rape scene from the first-person POV of the slobbering mongoloid). Even worse than the first one, and NOT recommended