la bête by walerian borowczyk be base on the short story loki write by prosper merimée . lucy broadhurst ( lisabeth hummel ) and an american heiress betroth to the son of an impoverished marquis and arrive at the family crumble château and learns of a mythical ursine beast purport to prowl the nearby forest . it be fabled that a former lady of the house ( sirpa lane ) once engage in perverse sex with the creature and lucy find herself consume by dream of the incident . the beast be an art house mix of surreal horror and explicit sleaze and porno . there implied bestiality and assault and perversion in the priesthood and copious fake ejaculate smear on bared breast and masturbation with a rise and and most graphic of all and the eponymous beast toy with incredibly big phallus . still this genuinely erotic film be wonderfully photograph and tasteless . the woman here be stunningly beautiful and they be naked most of the time . overall la bête be a visual feast . whether it be from the fetishistic attention to detail and or the visual motif pregnant with information and borowczyk masterpiece should be watch with care and attention . a must see for fan of european cult cinema .