Raptus

A copy of the legendary Raptus (1969), whose video was not released during the video frenzy and was considered missing for decades, was finally found last year, which is said to be prepared for TV broadcast. It is a very different erotic horror film, as it is evident from the very beginning with its opening with a quote from Marcuse: throughout the film, psychoanalytic theories are heard first from the mouth of a lawyer who argues that his client is mentally unstable, and then from the director of a mental hospital. The basic thesis of the lawyer and the screenwriter is that deviant behaviors are rooted in childhood traumas caused by family or authority figures. It is debatable whether the film was sincerely shot with the aim of committing such a thesis or whether it is an exploitation film that uses this excuse. Secondly, the erotic horror/violence scenes contain mise-en-scènes that might be catchy, but I think this version that we can watch is a 'cropped' version: the photonovel version of the film in my collection is more daring.