Trouble Every Day (18)

Review by: Simon Bell | Rating: Two

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:

NEWLYWEDS Shane and June Brown are on their way to honeymoon in Paris, but Shane slips off to the airplane toilet to jerk off while summoning an image of his new bride, crimson-soaked and freshly-butchered. So, with seconds gone, you get the firm impression this ain't going to be all midnight strolls along tree-lined avenues of Saint Germain de Prés and sipping Pernod in street side cafes of the 3rd Arrondisement.

A pharmacist for a major American drugs corporation, Shane isn't merely on a jaunt to sow his seed as God intended, but to pursue the key practitioner of a medical experiment that tested the boundaries of the human libido. It seems (nothing's clear cut in this movie) that Shane was used as a guinea pig, stuffed up to his eyeballs with uncontrollable and animalistic lust before an antidote could be brewed.

Our contemporary vampire manages to track down the scientist's home, an elegant old stone mansion on the outskirts of Paris, and meets the wife, Coré , also quite clearly exposed to the same debilitating research herself. (This is Betty Blue's Beatrice Dalle at her horniest: We've already seen her steal the show in one of the nastiest murder/sex scenes in screen history, involving the chewing off of a lip and the toying of thick flaps of skin.)