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El sádico de Notre-Dame (1979)
Country of Origin: France / Spain / Belgium
Years of Production: 1974 - 1979
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cetelci S.A. / Eurociné / Gold Internacional
Films / Tritón P.C.
Production Manager: Marius Lesoeur
SCRIPT
Script: A.L. Mariaux (real name: Marius Lesoeur), Jeff
Maner (real name: Jesus
Franco)
Story: Jesus Franco
DIRECTION
Director: James P.
Johnson (real name: Jesus
Franco)
Assistant Director: Jean-Pierre Ducroux
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Raymond Heil
Assistant Director of Photography: R. Zaldy
MUSIC
Music: Daniel J. White
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Antonio Molina
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Ilona Kunesova
CAST
Rosa Almirall (real name: Lina Romay) (Anne)
Nadine Pascal (Rose)
Jess Frank (real
name: Jesus Franco)
(Mathis Vogel, aka Laforgue)
France Nicolas (Countess)
Pierre Taylou (Pierre de Franval)
Olivier Mathot (French inspector)
Francois Goussard (real name: Francois Blanchard)
Yul Sanders (real name: Claude Boisson)
Monica Swinn (the Count's sadistic partner)
Claude Sendron (the Count)
Raymond Hardy (real name: Ramon Ardid) (hotel receptionist)
Richard Bigotini (real name: Richard de Conninck) (the Count's butler)
Roger Germanes (Inspector Malou)
Carole Riviere (nightclub girl)
Catherine Laferriere (nightclub owner)
Daniel J. White (doctor)
Albert Lerner (policeman)
PLOT SUMMARY
Maniac Mathis Vogel escapes from a psychiatric hospital and murders
a prostitute in a street near Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. He's soon
recognised as a former priest, but he continues his vicious murders
while fictionalising his crimes in a story he sells to a magazine. As
his madness spirals out of control, he turns his sadistic attentions
to the magazine's publisher and his secretary.
AVAILABILITY
Canada
Video Distributor: VEC
France
Video Distributors: Budget Video; Cine 7
Greece
Video Distributors: Chris Productions
Japan
Video Distributor: Bandai
Netherlands
Video Distributors: Eagle 6 Video; Phoenix Home Video
USA
Video Distributor: Wizard
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 18
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Chains and Black Leather - Canadian title
Demoniac - US video title
L'eventreur de Notre Dame - French working title
The Ripper of Notre Dame
El sádico de Notre Dame
The Sadist of Notre Dame
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Exorcisme (1974)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Absurd no.8 (UK)
credits, review
Cineinforme no.67 (October 1981) p.33 (Spain)
review
The Dark Side no.47 (July 1995) p.16 (UK)
review (by Allan Bryce)
Dicine: Revista de Difusion e Investigacion... no.58
(October 1994) pp.40-41 (Mexico)
credits, synopsis
L'Ecran Fantastique no.14 (1980) p.57 (France)
review
Film Francais no.1758 (23 February 1979) p.2 (France)
review
Spaghetti Cinema no.14 (August 1986) p.12 (USA)
review
BOOKS
Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.334
credits
Obsession - The Films of Jesus Franco pp.136-137
illustrated credits, review (by Lucas Balbo)
KEYWORDS
insanity, journalists, priests, prostitutes, serial killers, writers
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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