This is a lot more interesting than the dumb inapplicable title would indicate. Three women, a flight attendant, a maid and a pop star, all try to commit suicide after suffering misfortune. In the hospital, they are visited by a mysterious woman named Maud who offers them an alternative - a "joyous death" by joining her at her mansion and live out out their final days having sex.
A mysterious woman in black named
Maud Du Terry (Helga Trixi) visits a cemetary
It gets her aroused, and she can hear the voices from the graves speak to her.. In particular - three graves of the three women who figure into this story. We begin by learning what led to each of their failed suicide attempts which landed them in the hospital where they met Maud.
The first is Charlene Dodd (
Dawn Cummings) a stewardess. We meet her as she's getting banged in the bathroom by Idi Amin (
Manu Pluton).
Idi Amin's woman (
Jocelyne Clairis) comes into the bathroom and is horrified by the sight. Charlene is fired from her job because of it, and she tries to kill herself with gas, but it doesn't work.
We move on to the next grave...
When the hotel manager (
Carmelo Petix), who was watching the scene, tries to get it on with Alice, she throws the platter in his face. She's subsequently fired and tries to kill herself by drowing.
The third girl is Pénélope Dupin (
Nadja Mons) who is trying to make it as a pop star. She hopes her song "Noyer dans tes yeux"/"Drowning in Your Eyes" will be a big hit.
But she has to suck the dick of Alain (
Jean-Louis Vattier) the record producer. After countless exchanges of sex for success don't pan out, Pénélope tries to kill herself with pills.
Maud visits Charlene, Alice and Pénélope in the hospital. She offers the three women the opportunity to live out their final days having sex at her mansion.
"Dying is too important to do just any old way. I also want to die, but in the best way possible. The absolutely best way. By being fucked to death. Will you join me on this final pleasure cruise?"
The three ladies take her up on the offer and stay at her place.
They are introduced to Arnold (
Brendan Reed), Maud's servant and chauffeur. A lighting strike has rendered him mute and with a perpetual erection.
They have dinner surrounded by phalluses - including ones on the chairs.
Then they have sex on the shag
As Maud promised, the sex is unrelenting.
Some guys are invited over.
Alice decides she's had her fill and sneaks out to go commit suicide.
She walks to a stone building in the back of the property.
The sex continues unabated inside.
Alice puts a stick of dynamite up her vagina!
She lights the fuse...
And it explodes.
Now there are only two.
The voice of Pénélope from the grave recounts her final hours...
Pénélope is visited by Richard (Jacques Conti), her lover and manager. Pénélope tells Maud and Charlene that Richard has promised to take her to NYC and get her singing career restarted. She doesn't want to commit suicide after all.
Charlene and Maud are skeptical
Charlene seduces Richard
Pénélope walks in on them.
Pénélope is devastated, and decides to kill herself after all. She walks from the estate toward a crew of sanitation workers. They can't believe their eyes...
The garbage men jiz all over her - so much so that she drowns on their semen. The men realize she's dead and get the hell out of there.
Pénélope is left dead in the street.
Now there is only one.
While Maud sleeps, Charlene slips out.
She runs from the property and caught by Arnold.
You'll recall Arnold has a perpetual erection. He pounds away at Charlene for hours and hours.
Eventually Charlene goes limp and dies.
Arnold carries her body to the pool and dumps her in.
We now see Maud at the graveyard. She's much older now, but the voices from the grave still call to her.
We see that Maud has since added to her "collection" with a graveyard full of women who died like Charlene, Alice and Pénélope - and they cry for more souls to join them. THE END
A dark film for sure, but also with moments of levity and unrestrained imagination. It surely wouldn't have appealed to the trenchcoats at the grindhouse nor the midnight drive-in crowd. So, not sure where the target audience would have been in '76 for a film like this, but damn this was an eccentric and outlandish film that I won't soon forget.
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