"Die teuflischen Schwestern" or "The Devilish Sisters" or "Sexy Sisters" or "Satanic Sisters" or "Swedish Nympho Slaves" is a German-language film from 1977, so this one will have its 40th anniversary this year. It is one of the films famous Spanish director Jesús Franco made in Switzerland and for which he collaborated with Swiss writer Erwin C. Dietrich. If you know a bit about Franco, you know exactly what to expect here. And what you expect is what you get. Lots of nudity and sexuality, several sex scenes, a decent deal of violence and all of this in the frame of a somewhat dramatic story, which never really makes sense though or has any realistic feeling whatsoever attached to it where you would think that this could indeed happen in real life. The film runs for 85 minutes approximately and tells the story of a nymphomaniac woman held captive against(?) her will by her equally sex-obsessed sister and an evil doctor. Well.. actually, everybody seems sex-obsessed in here and the way they are trying to sell us the story of a knight in shining armor towards the end is really cringeworthy. But luckily for the audience, you never have the feeling that Franco takes himself and his film seriously whatsoever. It is sexploitation and there is no deeper meaning behind it. As usual, Franco serves all tastes as the one major character is a blonde (who did nothing for me though) and the other is a truly hut brunette (yummy). You always need to be horny in advance to really enjoy 95% of Franco's works and it definitely helps here too. Oh and make sure your girlfriend is not sitting next to you. Or have her join in at the action. Finally, however, from a cinematic perspective, I really cannot recommend the watch. It's just above-average porn.

After recently talking about another film from auteur film maker "Uncle" Jess Franco,my dad revealed that he had picked up an Uncle Jess DVD due to thinking that it was the type of thing that I would like (I'm still not sure if that is a good or bad thing!)With Easter coming up,I decided that it was time to meet Uncle Jess's sisters.The plot:Diagnosed with nymphomania, Milicent Antonia von Stein gets tied to the bed by her sister Edna von Stein,Since being raped in her childhood,Milicent has experienced strange sexual dreams,which lead to her finding it tough to tell dreams and reality apart.Written out of the family will by her dad,Edna starts making plans to use Milicent's nymphomania to make her dream a reality.View on the film:Backed by a slick Jazz score from Walter Baumgartner,director Uncle Jess & cinematographer Peter Baumgartner bathe the title in groovy hues,as shimmering shadows are cast across to give a fractured view of the sisters relationship.Covering the walls with eye-catching paintings of cats,Uncle Jess unleashes his famous zoom-in button to cross sexploitation with late 70's "happenings",as steamy sex scenes are blended with psychedelic flashbacks to Milicent's childhood.Whilst the movie does focus on the flesh of its stars,the screenplay by Erwin C. Dietrich does help to keep Jess on track,due to the mind games and "troubled" relationship that Edna has with Milicent being gradually revealed with each sexual encounter.Reuniting with Jess,the very pretty Pamela Stanford gives a mischievous lip-curling performance as Edna von Stein,as Uncle Jess meets his sexy sisters.

Raven-haired, sexually-aggressive Edna (Pamela Stanford) picks up a guy named Joe (Kurt Meinicke) in a club and takes him back to her oceanfront villa. There, things take an admittedly strange turn as she has her maid Sarah (Esther Moser) disrobe both on them on the living room sofa. But before things can get too hot and heavy, Edna excuses herself to the bedroom so she can have a word with her sister Millie (Karine Gambier). Millie turns out to be such a "dangerous nymphomaniac" she must be chained up to her bed in a room that doubles as a jail cell (!) where she writhes in agony until she can get some. Edna calls to her male visitor to come in and offers him up "a fantastic surprise" of her sister's body to use any way he wants. However, Millie has first instructed Edie to "...stay and watch us, the way you always do!" As Millie and the male visitor go to town, Edie hides behind a beaded curtain and takes care of herself with a candle (!?) No, this is not going to be your everyday run-of-the-mill sex film, folks.Millie hasn't left her room in six long months and is on drugs that are supposed to help temper her schizophrenic delusions. She also has traumatic flashbacks to her childhood when she used to hide and watch all of her sister's kinky sexual proclivities. In an effort to pacify her, the live-in nurse Maria (Marianne Graf) gives her a vibrator and tries to do other *a-hem* nice things for her, while Edna doesn't help matters any by going into town, picking up a white-haired male gigolo (who also happens to be the same guy who raped her as a child!) and letting him have his way with her as long as he doesn't "leave any bruises." Edna seeks advice from world-renowned psychotherapist Dr. Milton Arcos, who recommends Millie be denied stimulants of any kind (including sex) if she's ever to make a recovery. However, there's the possibility some people don't actually WANT her to get better because there's a 12 million dollar inheritance the troubled girl is set to collect on her 21st birthday. Well, granted she's of sound mind when the time comes...Though this sounds - and kind of IS - pretty twisted, there's something oddly charming about this one that I can't quite put my finger on. I think a lot of that has to do with the goofy English-language dub-over done by a group of cheeky people who obviously had a hard time stifling laughter saying things like "What a terrific tool!" And then there's the head-scratching exchange, "Have you ever seen how the fish make love?" "No." "Neither have I, but I can imagine how they would do it. If I were a male fish and you were a female I would want to make love to you." The story itself really isn't too bad (it's surprisingly coherent by the director's standards) though the ending falls completely flat. But hey, not many people are going to watch this for the story anyway, are they? The good news is that the entire cast - female and male alike - spend the majority of their scenes sans clothing and engaging in near X-rated sex and most of them look pretty good doing it.Aside from the ladies, there are two male exploitation regulars of note on hand. The first is Jack Taylor as Millie's physician Dr. Charles Barnes, who gets to shove a thermometer up Millie's ass in his very first scene and basically lounge around in bed in the nude with several of the other ladies in all his scenes thereafter. The second is Erik Falk (best known for the kung fu biker rapist 'Stiletto' in the sleaze gem MAD FOXES) as one of the sleazy studs hired to service Millie. Being part of Franco's late 70s series for Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich, the photography, music and overall production values are decent for this kind of film. Even the villa interior has a cool decor, with blown-up black-and-white photos of cats gracing all the walls.The DVD is packaged as "Sexy Sisters" but the on-screen title calls it "Satanic Sisters." Under any name, this is a decent Eurotrash flick.

I don't think the other reviewers are being fair. How can someone who fast forwarded through most of the movie believe he can give a fair review of it? I'm also getting a little tired of the childish jabs other reviewers give these types of movies. It gets old when every review is coming out with them and is like what I would expect from schoolchildren, not in any way clever. There is lots of sex in this movie and yes you could justify calling it a porn movie. However there are interesting scenes in it also, the characters and situations are often spectacular and really striking. Direction, acting and characters are all great. True, the plot is very simple, but it's more an artsy type of movie. There are all kinds of themes running through it which anyone can see. These beautiful and elegant scenes doesn't just come about by chance or by having beautiful girls, which are dime a dozen. If you think that then you need to watch some bad adult movies and you will appreciate the huge difference.