Being a sex slave might not be that bad after all

The Frightened Woman (1969)

I must say I was quite surprised with this one. I was expecting some crap like Venus in Furs (1969) but this turned out be quite good. It's a story about a woman who ends up being kidnapped by a rich man who keeps her as his slave. So the basic story is what you'd expect from a sexploitation flick, but there's quite a bit more to it than just that. Actually, apart from a few scenes, this movie is not exactly sexploitation at all and it's surely not as graphic as others of it's kind. In fact I was wondering why the hell did this movie ever get an X rating, guess the times were different back then. Anyway, I loved the twists in the story with the change in the balance of power between the two and the big twist in the end which left me very surprised and yet somehow very happy. The movie looks stunning, the cinematography and set desing is very stylish with it's psychedelic late 60's touch. It's also very symbolic and at parts even surrealistic, so there's a lot more going than just the sexploitation "plot". The music was certainly not the best from it's kind, but still quite good, so that department was well in hand as well. The cast was quite ok as well, though I had to watch the english dubbed version so that of course brought down the performances quite a bit. It's not a perfect movie by any means, it drags on a bit too much at parts and maybe the script could have been a bit better at the start, but still I quite liked it.
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