Scene 1 of Satan's Slave - Michael Gough is a satanist sacrificing a woman to the Devil. Scene 2 - A psycho kills his date in an old manor. Scene 3 - A woman prepares to leave her boyfriend for the week to go visit relatives and admits she's having premonitions. These three characters and concepts will converge, but all the scenes really have in common is that each woman is naked. But more importantly, it's an example of how the pacing is absolutely all over the place in this grotesque exploitation hodgepodge. Part Gothic, part goreporn, perhaps inspired by EC Comics in the way it delivers a couple of head-scratching twists at the end, Satan's Slave has trouble picking a lane. If you like your exploitation films with nudity, gore and sexually-charged violence, you'll find something to like, but as a story, it seems to spend time on the wrong things and the visions could have been used better to motivate a climax that makes sense instead of what we actually got. Can't quite recommend.
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Scene 1 of Satan's Slave - Michael Gough is a satanist sacrificing a woman to the Devil. Scene 2 - A psycho kills his date in an old manor. Scene 3 - A woman prepares to leave her boyfriend for the week to go visit relatives and admits she's having premonitions. These three characters and concepts will converge, but all the scenes really have in common is that each woman is naked. But more importantly, it's an example of how the pacing is absolutely all over the place in this grotesque exploitation hodgepodge. Part Gothic, part goreporn, perhaps inspired by EC Comics in the way it delivers a couple of head-scratching twists at the end, Satan's Slave has trouble picking a lane. If you like your exploitation films with nudity, gore and sexually-charged violence, you'll find something to like, but as a story, it seems to spend time on the wrong things and the visions could have been used better to motivate a climax that makes sense instead of what we actually got. Can't quite recommend.