Writer/producer/director Paul Aratow (Bizarre Devices) directed this 1983 sexploitation snoozer about writer John Wainwright (character actor Larry Hankin from China DeSade) who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the fictional character Svengali. Wainwright is in thrall to his hypnotic publisher Sir Stephen, whose character is lifted from The Story of O but with a Satanic twist, and this update's Trilby (Jane Brunel-Cohen) is no longer an opera singer but an exotic dancer. Watch for porn stars including the recently departed Paul Thomas (Friday the 13th: A Nude Beginning), Clair Dia (Sharon's Rosebud), and the late Ken Scudder from Thundercrack! Aratow's original was edited by future Hollywood screenwriter David Webb Peoples (Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven). In 1983 Independent International's Sam Sherman and Al Adamson (Brain of Blood) hacked out most of the softcore smut and added new scenes featuring prolific old John Carradine (House of Frankenstein), former western star Don Barry (Square Dance Jubilee), and Adamson's spouse Regina Carroll (Blood of Ghastly Horror). The cobbled-together result screened at drive-ins as the horror feature Doctor Dracula.
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