As in Pasolini's later Teorema, a young intruder (Søren Strømberg as "Per") challenges the stability of a bourgeois family in writer/director Knud Leif Thomsen's 1966 Venom, known in its native Denmark as Gift ("Marriage"). It's a chilly morality tale about paternal hypocrisy versus youthful nihilism, but Per's penchant for pornographic filmmaking resulted in scenes censored with large white "X" marks for its theatrical release. Thomsen's subsequent output tended towards less confrontational romantic dramas. Also with Judy Gringer from 1001 Danish Delights and Karl Stegger from John Hilbard's "Bedside" series of sex comedies. Not to be confused with the 1971 Venom, a British horror film originally issued as The Legend of Spider Forest.
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