A Saint, A Woman, A Devil (1976) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Peter Savage
Starring: Joanna Bell, Marc Stevens, Helen Madigain
Rated: UR/Region: 0/1:85/Number of disc: 1
Available from Vinegar Syndrome
One of the oddest mixes of drive-in craziness and steamy action, RAGING BULL co-writer Peter Savage’s sleazy adaptation of THE THREE FACES OF EVE finally comes to home video fully uncut with all the mind-boggling plot twists and sex-filled fun fully intact! Young Sylvia is a good, pure Christian, but her friends and family are noticing strange things happening to her. Sylvia is experiencing sudden transformations from a church going innocent into a sex-obsessed vixen, violently seducing every man (and woman) in sight! Shocked by these episodes, her beautiful sister seeks help from a psychiatrist (played by director Peter Savage) and the two of them begin to explore the dark secrets in Sylvia’s past that have lead to her unnatural sexual awakening. Better known under its re-issue title of SYLVIA, Vinegar Syndrome brings this sexy cult film to DVD in its original cut and under its original title, A SAINT, A WOMAN, A DEVIL!
We got another weird one on our hands here. The wacky characters always seem to end up in situations that result in sex. Man and woman sex, woman on woman sex, basically it is just a whole lot of set with some storyline tossed in. And some of you might like the fact that for assistant director we have none other than the William Lustig! The film is about everything you’d expect from some old run down theater in the old days, but here it has been restored and looks about as good as someone would want it to.
I think a film like this might be more wanted for the wacky ways of it rather than the quality of the actual film. There are some twists and turns in the stories for your enjoyment. Some of which I found to be legit shocking for what it was, but still there wasn’t a whole lot of legs as a whole for this film to stand on for me. There is also an R rated version, but taken out the graphic sexual stuff might only serve to cut some much needed time of the run time, but probably not add anything else of note to the film.
– R rated Version
