Review of Blind Beast (1969) by Aaron W — 30 Jul 2008

I always love a strange, beautiful and unique experience and this certainly provided one. A blind sculptor kidnaps a young woman with the intention of using her as the model for his masterpiece. He imprisons her in his studio; a dark room; walls covered in replica body parts of every woman he's ever touched, two gigantic headless foam bodies in the center. After a few escape attempts the blind man in a fit of rage rapes the model who subsequently succumbs to a perverse case of Stockholm's syndrome, craving pleasure like an addict. Pleasure turns to pain and sends the model and her captor on a sado-masochistic descent into sex, violence, dismemberment and death.

An examination of the sense of touch and the vices that go with it, Blind Beast is a film that is both intensely disturbing and beautifully tragic, not to mention it's got to have one of the best sets in film history.