In the supplemental materials, Rollin gives a lukewarm feeling in the interview about it.
If you are expecting a horror movie though you will be disappointed, this most definitely isn't one.
There is some nudity, and a lesbian scene, as well as some killing but this film is mainly sedate throughout only showing some action in the final period.
After finding refuge among a band of gypsy-like exotic dancers, they cross paths with a petty criminal Marianne Valiot , an aging fortune-teller Louise Dhour and a quartet of swingers including Brigitte Lahaie with sinister intentions.
Issued in 1981, it differs from much of his catalogue in that it pairs him with a co-writer and eschews any connection to the supernatural, though it does continue his exploration of the macabre.
Equally, the oppressively drab, unfriendly, rainy, cold darkness of many of the locations still somehow comes across as being strangely poetic.