La Bête (film)

The Beast (French: La Bête) is a 1975 French erotic horror film written, edited, and directed by Walerian Borowczyk. Although sometimes compared with Beauty and the Beast, there are no parallels in the plot except that it features the relationship between a beast (monster) and a woman. The film was noted for its explicit sexual content including zoophilia upon its initial release. It has become a cult film.

For other uses, see La Bête.

The Beast
Official teaser poster
Directed byWalerian Borowczyk
Written byWalerian Borowczyk
Produced byAnatole Dauman
StarringSirpa Lane
Lisbeth Hummel
Marcel Dalio
CinematographyBernard Daillencourt
Marcel Grignon
Edited byWalerian Borowczyk
Production
company
Argos Films
Distributed byArgos Films
Release date
  • 6 January 1975 (1975-01-06)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryFrance

A loose adaptation of the novella Lokis by Prosper Mérimée was originally conceived in 1972 as a film on its own. However, Borowczyk later rendered Lokis as a story (La véritable histoire de la bête du Gévaudan) in Immoral Tales (1974), which was envisaged to be a film of six stories. After Immoral Tales was remastered as a film of four stories, the footage became the dream sequence of The Beast.

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