The Female Executioner (L'Executrice, 1985)

US Severin 2022 Blu-ray edition - region all




What a fascinating face she has, Brigitte Lahaie. I've only seen 3-4 movies with her, 2 Jean Rollin one's, Jesús Franco's great
1988 surgery horror "Faceless", and then this one. She was great in "Faceless" and good in the rest. Even if she's in a really
bad movie, like this one, she's good as her fascinating face enthralls you and she also wisely underplays her role character.

This is not a horror film, it's a Crime Action and it's not a classic or cult either .... or, maybe among the Brigitte Lahaie fans it's
cult movie ? But i wedge it in here on my Horror Film Page as a coupling to her great horror, the 1988 "Faceless".
Reading the blurbs on the bluray sleeve you wonder if you've seen the same film ? It surely is not a crime masterpiece, and
it's a shame Ed Wood, Jr. isn't alive today as i'm sure his crime flic "Jailbait" would've been hailed too.
"The Female Executioner" is C grade crap made by a delightfully incompetent "director" and he even admits it in the extras
interview and jokes about it. Michel Caputo seems to be a really nice guy who won't take himself too seriously.

Is that a cool pic or not ?

In this film Brigitte Lahaie plays the rock-hard crime Cop Martine Savignac and she's on the hunt after a nasty gang of
Child video pornographers. Mrs. Nadine Wenders (Dominique Erlanger) runs a nightclub and a casino and she is the
Big Boss of a strong criminal gang. A customer with a gambling debt is forced to pay back by kidnapping a young girl
for the Organisation's white slavery racket. Valmont (Pierre Oudry) is a colleague cop and the boyfriend of Martine, and
Joelle is Martine's kid sister. But, both are killed by Nadine Wenders who smiles and blow them to pieces.

Above: Back Blu-ray sleeve with a white sticker on it

Time for Revenge. Antoine (Michael Godin) is Nadine's son and he suddenly changes side and becomes Martine's
buddy, and always sabotaging Martine's progress is her corrupted old Commissary (Michel Modo, who's the best
actor in the film) and he's an old friend (and ex-boyfriend) to Nadine Wenders.

Some good things in the film was a good old Burning Suit effect (today shitty CGI is used instead) and a nicely made
collision between two cars going in decent speed (today CGI crap is used). Also Brigitte Lahaie in the nude.
The rivalling drug gang to Wenders gang was clearly not Chinese but Thai.

The film is presented in 1.66:1 ratio with french or english audio mono and with english subtitles, region all.
Extras: Interview with Michel Caputo and Brigitte Lahaie - "The Cop in the Nylon Stockings" (19 minutes in french
with english subtitles), Location visit with Michel Caputo and Brigitte Lahaie, Trailer
"Les violets bleus" (The Blue Shutters) - 1987 short film starring Brigitte Lahaie (44 minutes art movie)

 

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