Michel Lemoine Movies

The dreams of a sadistic businessman become the nightmares of his weekend visitors in this psychedelic tale of terror that was originally banned in France! In the light of the sun, Boris Zarloff (Michel Lemoine) appears to be a mild-mannered businessman, but when night falls and Zarloff sleeps, he silently savors hideous visions of torture and domination -- much like his notorious father. When a pair of travelers arrives at Zarloff's secluded castle for a weekend getaway, the beautiful young girl begins to express a morbid fascination in the history of the estate and asks Zarloff for a guided tour of its infamous torture chamber. With all the elements in place to live out his dark fantasies once and for all, Zarloff soon succumbs to the madness that plagues his family's bloodline. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

This plodding, pretentious effort makes the directorial debut for Pier A. Caminneci, who also appears in the feature. Janine Reynaud play the double role of Isabel and Fabienne, and Hans Meyer plays Marc. The uneven and confusing plot concerns sex and criminal activity among car racing fanatics. It is hard to follow which character Miss Reynaud is portraying at any given time due to the scattered presentation of the film. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Janine Reynaud and Rossana Yanni return as Diana and Regina, the sexy female detectives from the Red Lips Agency, in cult filmmaker Jesus Franco's enjoyable sequel to El Caso de las Dos Bellezas. The women receive some song lyrics from a messenger who has been stabbed in the back, and they visit an island inhabited by strange, suspicious people. The mystery revolves around the notes of the late eugenics expert Prof. Bertrand, who seems to have been creating muscular mutants in red posing straps before his death. Diana and Regina are kidnapped by lesbians, threatened by the mutants, and appear in several sexy striptease acts in this silly, entertaining romp. Michel Lemoine is the prime suspect, Adrian Hoven and Chris Howland appear as Interpol agents and Franco makes a cameo as a shifty informant. Prints run 83 and 77 minutes. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

This strange, surrealistic German horror film from cult director Jesus Franco stars Janine Reynaud as Lorna Green, who performs a pseudo-snuff nightclub act involving erotically staged S&M murders. Lorna's mind is controlled by a man who might be Satan (Michel Lemoine), and she slowly loses her tenuous hold on reality, moving increasingly closer to the night when she begins to really kill. Lorna's nightclub act and the final scenes -- involving a wild orgy where Lorna viciously murders a man named Bill Mulligan (Jack Taylor) -- were cut drastically in some of the film's several release versions. Prints run 93, 84, 81, and 78 minutes. Acclaimed director Fritz Lang called Necronomicon "a beautiful piece of cinema," but its edgy sexuality and hallucinatory tone struck most viewers as confusing and off-putting. This eerie, haunting film co-stars Howard Vernon and Nathalie Nord, while producer Pier A. Caminnecci (who co-scripted) and singer-filmmaker Adrian Hoven also appear. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

In this western, an outlaw is so despicable that even his own gang abandons him in the desert. He is later rescued by a wagon train where straightens out his life by saving the travelers from Indians, helping destroy his former gang, and returning the money they took from a bank. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Credited in some source books to Lee Kresel, the French-made Prisoner of the Iron Mask was actually directed by Francesco DeFeo. This colorful if occasionally empty-headed swashbuckler concerns an evil count, who imprisons the patriot (Michael Lemoine) who bears proof of the count's perfidy. Few of the elements of the Alexandre Dumas novel The Iron Mask surface in this film, chiefly because it is based not on The Iron Mask but on another Dumas work, Ten Years After. Nor do D'Artagnan or the Three Musketeers make their anticipated appearances in this film. Rarely seen today, The Prisoner of the Iron Mask enjoyed its widest American exposure during the Color TV "boom" of the mid-1960s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this sci-fi film, an alien android escapes from his home planet and ends up on Earth where he discovers that everyone he touches dies. In the end, he is defeated by a ship from his planet and the Italian army. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this rather sordid French drama, an unhappy couple go on vacation to an isolated resort owned by a different couple. The proprietor's husband has been sick for a long time and she ends up falling in love with the visiting husband. When her long-suffering husband finally dies, the other man begins trying to blackmail her by threatening to inform the police that the woman helped her husband die. In exchange for his silence, the man demands that he and his wife be allowed to stay at the hotel's expense. Eventually the blackmailer's wife gets bored with the slow-paced life and ends up doing a coochy dance for the bartender. The hotel owner learns of this, and to make the extortionist jealous, entices his wife into a lesbian affair. Unfortunately, the ploy fails and the married couple ends up reconciling briefly. They then fight, causing the husband to make love to the proprietor on the beach. The wife comes back and threatens to blackmail them both. In the end, the proprietor admits that she really did kill her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide