(Original Title: L'oasis des filles perdues) This movie has me stumped. In 1974 there was a movie about sex slave traffickers called The House of the Lost Dolls which used damn near twenty minutes of film from an unrelated movie called Agent Sigma 3: Mission Goldwather (1967) starring Jack Taylor and Silvia Solar. Now, in 1982 we have another movie about sex slave traffickers which ALSO incorporates twenty minutes of Agent Sigma 3: Mission Goldwather. What in the ever lovin' fuck is going on? Different movies, different cast and crew, different decades... but both about sex slavery and feeling the need to splice in twenty minutes of a film from the 1960s which has not a goddamn thing to do with anything. Am I missing a key bit of information here? I have theories...
Annie (Françoise Blanchard) and her friend (? actress) meet a couple guys at a club. Note that nearly every summary/review I read identifies the friend as Nadine Pascal. That's definitely incorrect; Pascal turns up later in the film.
So, now we go to the actual transport of the sex slaves where various women are raped and abused along the way.
The thing is, this is taken directly from The House of the Lost Dolls. This film starts to feel like it's just a bunch of clips from various movies haphazardly stitched together.
She comes out of the dressing room and finds the guy likes to be hit with a belt. Rocío Freixas' story is so completely irrelevant to the central sex slavery story that I wonder if this was also clipped from another movie.
What a shitty pieced-together movie. I suppose the reason Agent Sigma 3: Mission Goldwather is in here is because they used The House of the Lost Dolls as the template to splice in the Françoise Blanchard material and didn't have the care or initiative to remove it. In other words, this film just splices in scenes to a film that already had spliced-in material... amounting to a gigantic mess.
★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆2/10
Was this picture made by Eurocine? I know House of Lost Dolls was; and splicing in bits from other pictures was one of the things they were notorious for.
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