The Devil's Sisters

The Devil's Sisters (1966)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Teresa (Sharon Saxon) is beaten and bloody as she lays in a bed when some police walk in. At first they think she's just a prostitute that has been beaten but she says there's much more to the story so she tells it to them. It turns out that she went to a house for a job when she was kidnapped and held hostage by a couple people. Soon she was forced into prostitution.

THE DEVIL'S SISTERS is a different kind of film for director William Grefe because it doesn't take place in Florida and instead the setting is Mexico. During the featurette we're told by the director that this here was based on a true story and he also mentions that the film was lost for several decades before he was able to secure a print from Germany. The only problem is that the final eight minutes are missing so these scenes have Grefe talking about them over storyboards.

As far as the film itself goes, I found it to be rather boring because not much really happens. The majority of the running time has Teresa inside a small room where she sits around while at times men come in to beat her. The majority of the violence is off-screen so trying to label this film as a roughie isn't that correct. If you're looking for any type of exploitation/nudity then you can forget that too as the movie is fairly lame. I thought Saxon was good in the lead role but there's no question that she needed more of a story to work with.