Sam Panico Anne (Lina Romay, muse of this film's director, Jess Franco) is a performance artist who specializes in recreating Satanic rituals and spicing them up for old rich folks to savor. She also writes for a magazine, Garter and Dagger, that appeals to people who like this kind of dreck.Turns out that Mathis, one of the writers at the magazine (yep, Franco himself), was a priest kicked out of the church for following Old Testament beliefs instead of Vatican 2. After overhearing Anne and her assistant planning a Black Mass (not an actual one, more like a sex party, which come to think of it, why is a man of the cloth working for a porn magazine? And wouldn't an orgy be just as bad as a Black Mass?), Mathis kills each and every person involved.There's another cut of the film, Demoniac, which is just death and gore with none of the sex. It's 69 minutes long. And there's another version called Sexorcismes that remakes this film with added hardcore footage, including Franco himself showing up for the party. And Franco remade it again as El Sádico de Notre-Dame.Under any title, this movie is the absolute shits. It fails at horror. It fails at being sexy. It fails at being interesting. It even fails at being an Exorcist clone because it has nothing to do with exorcism!Look - when I tell you a movie is bad, trust me. It's bad. Real bad.

MovieGuy01 I thought that this film from Jess Franco was not a bad film. it is about a man called Raymond Bordier the editor of a newspaper, who uses a castle of a count and countess to preform black masses that look and seem very real. Vogal who is a former priest, and a religious fanatic happens to walk in on one of their Black Masses. He believes that he has saw the real thing, so he decides to exorcize the people taking part. so that he can make them confess that they are under the influence of Satan. To get their confessions he tortures them to death using medieval rites. I though this was quite a good film to watch although i did not find a lot happening in the film.

Coventry Slow, terrifically build up shock-tale that easily passes as one of Franco's finest achievements, almost on the same level as "The awful Dr. Orloff" or "Miss Muerte". The acting is weak but the film is well-scripted and versatile enough to appeal to wide cult-audiences…Throw in some rancid sleaze and eerie Parisian dark alleys and you've got yourself a truly undiscovered Euro-horror gem. Just make sure you watch an uncut version, preferably the one under the title "The Sadist of Notre Dame". The premise handles about the mentally unstable ex-priest Mathis Laforgue (played by maestro Jess Franco himself) who recently escaped from a psychiatric clinic and now dwells the streets of Paris. He sees himself as a redeemer, sent by God to wipe out all that is impure. Laforgue kills prostitutes; horny teenagers and erotic party-goers, claiming he's doing it to save their souls…Call it a revival of the Inquisition, set in present day Paris!This is a cruel film with a cruel message. Even though it all sounds quite far-fetched, the film is brought with a strange sense of realism. "The Sadist of Notre Dame" makes up in cruelty what it lacks in budget possibilities. There are quite a few sequences that contain severe acts of torture and mutilation, interfered with the most perverted sexual undertones. Franco at his best, in other words. And I was quite surprised to see his acting capabilities are above average too! Franco, with a constant nihilistic glance in his eyes, outshines the rest of the cast. His regular actress – Lina Romey – was at her most ravishing during this era and she willingly shows this whenever she cans. You get the picture, this is a real must for the more demanding cult-collector.

Infofreak As much as I hate watching cut and dubbed versions of Euro horror movies I'll take any opportunity to watch a Jess Franco movie. So I haven't seen either the softcore or hardcore versions of this film but the butchered cut known as 'Demoniac'. Maybe anything I say about this version is worthless, but as it is it's far from Franco's best, yet still surprisingly watchable. Despite the lousy English dubbing I thought Franco's acting was more than adequate, in fact he easily gives the best performance in the picture. He plays Vogel, an intense and tortured defrocked priest who writes salacious stories for a racy magazine, the editor of which hangs with a swinging crowd who stage fake sadomasochistic performances for fun (shades of one of Franco's best 'Succubus', but don't get your hopes up). Vogel secretly witnesses a black mass, and not realizing it is fake, decides he must save the souls of the participants via exorcism, which in reality basically equates to murdering them. 'Demoniac' is presumably a lot less explicit than the other versions available. There is a fair bit of nudity including arguably the dullest orgy ever seen on screen. Franco's wife and frequent star Lina Romay is always a pleasure to look at, but if you want to see her at her best check out 'Female Vampire', the one where she kills via fellatio, remember? As I haven't seen the "real" version of this movie I can't honestly say whether it's good Franco or bad Franco, but if you're wanting to explore his work try and see 'Vampyros Lesbos', 'Eugenie De Sade', or 'Succubus' first.