Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion

Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion^[a] is a 1970 British^[1] sexploitation horror film^[2] directed by Jesús Franco, and starring Maria Rohm, Marie Liljedahl, Jack Taylor, and Christopher Lee. A modern-day adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's book Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795), the film follows a teenage girl who, after accepting an invitation to vacation on an island with a woman and her brother, instead finds herself at the center of a series of disturbing sexual experiments.

Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion
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Directed by	Jesús Franco
Written by	Harry Alan Towers
Based on	Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade
Produced by	Harry Alan Towers
Starring	Marie Liljedahl Maria Rohm Jack Taylor Christopher Lee
Cinematography	Manuel Merino
Music by	Bruno Nicolai
Production company	Video—Tel International Productions[1]
Distributed by	Distinction Films[1]
Release date	5 August 1970 (1970-08-05) (Los Angeles)[1]
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom[1]

Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion marked the second of Franco's de Sade-themed films after Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969). It has often been confused with his later and more explicit Eugenie de Sade (filmed in 1970, released 1973), an adaptation of de Sade's short story "Eugénie de Franval" (1800) which starred Soledad Miranda, as both films are often referred to simply as Eugenie. To complicate matters further, the director went on to make a second adaptation of Philosophy in the Bedroom, entitled Eugenie (Historia de una perversión), in 1980.^[3]

Cast

• Marie Liljedahl as Eugenie
• Maria Rohm as Madame Saint Ange
• Jack Taylor as Mirvel
• Christopher Lee as Dolmance
• Paul Muller as Mistival

Production

Christopher Lee replaced George Sanders in the film^[4]

Release

The film opened theatrically in Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1970.^[1]

Home media

Anchor Bay Entertainment released Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion on DVD in the United Kingdom. It was subsequently released on DVD in North America by Blue Underground in 2002.^[5] Blue Underground released the film again in a in 2015 in a three-disc limited edition set (featuring Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film, as well as a soundtrack CD),^[6] followed by a standalone Blu-ray release in 2020.^[7]

See also

• Marquis de Sade in popular culture

Notes

1. Alternate titles include De Sade 70.