Ouch! That must hurt! The movie The whip and The Body by Mario Bava was concidered so dangerous to the public mind that it was cut to pieces before it was released in the US, under the title What!.
It never made a hit there, which is understandable since it destroyed the whole film. Lee says in the book on his films: "One reviewer asked Why? I don't blame him."
Containing quite an amount of S&M sex, it is quite unfathomable that it was released in 1963! And this is possibly one of the best films Lee have made. It should be in his record as one of the milestones. If you are to buy just one film of him, this is it!
Lee's own comments on the film in the book The Films of Christopher Lee: "This was photographed and directed by Mario Bava and looked absolutely superb. A sort of psycho thriller. (...) I played a character [Kurt Menliff, that is] who returns from the dead and who ends up as a hallucination in the mind of the girl played by Daliah Lavi, who is absolutely beautiful in this picture. We had some very torrid love scenes..."
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