Along with Goto, The Beast was Borowczyk’s only original screenplay, and the finally realized feature stars Lisbeth Hummel as Lucy Broadhurst, a young woman betrothed to the socially undeveloped and curiously crude Mathurin de l’Esperance (Pierre Benedetti), a man she has never met. But after that portmanteau was cut off at four segments, Borowczyk began bracketing the earlier footage with a fully-formed narrative. Loosely adapted from a Prosper Mérimée novella entitled Lokis, Borowczyk planned to incorporate The Beast’s notorious dream sequence-then a standalone short shot in June of 1973 and known as The True Story of the Beast of Gevaudan-as one of the stories in Immoral Tales.
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