Good concept, poorly executed.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Roger Ebert often used to talk about "wrong gas-station movies", ie. low-grade horror or thriller flicks which start with the protagonists stopping at a seedy gas-station/diner where the air-conditioning is broken, the food is rotten and the attendant is a repulsive individual wearing coveralls and slime.A similar case could be made for the "wrong pub movie", a sub-genre of European horror that begins with young, female tourists stopping in the sole meeting place in a tiny, forgotten hamlet somewhere deep in the central European country side. Whereas the "wrong gas station" employees are always seedy and revolting, the "wrong pub" diners always fall completely silent, and perhaps even seem to freeze upon the young travellers' entrance into their domains, in much the same way the decor of the establishment is invariably frozen in the past.They will often be warned by the custodian of the establishment to leave the village, or more particularly, to stay away from the castle on the hill - a warning they obviously never heed.I've seen this set-up in some Hammer movies, at least one of the "Tombs of the Blind Dead" movies, and variations of it in some of the films of Euro-horror legend Paul Naschy, and, as you will have guessed, have also just seen it in "Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay", a curious French sort of horror-fantasy from 1971. You see, with this not atypical beginning underway, I expected the kind of violent, exploitative grindhouse horror hijinks you get from virtually any other b-grade Eurohorror flick of the '70s. I was surprised to find, however, that "Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay" deviates from the pack in a number of underwhelming ways:Firstly, I don't remember any violence in the movie at all. Hardly a common statement to make regarding this particular genre, shot in this particular place, in this particular time;Secondly, there is a surprisingly lack of nudity and sex for MOST of the movie's run-time. There is little, if any, of what I would call full-frontal nudity, and what nudity there is is usually not the camera's focal point. The movie does have a climax - no pun intended - however, that features more nudity and lesbian sex. Overall, "Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay" stands out for its quite unexploitative and tasteful treatment of nudity and sex.Lastly, and this may be a plus or a minus depending on your point of view, the movie has a go at the whole "dreamlike" atmosphere sort of thing, that so many other low-budget horror/fantasy movies also attempted, and failed at, miserably. "Morgana le Fay", however, largely succeeds at this, which is surprising.This brings me to my main problem with the movie, though. This atmosphere isn't really used to the service of any effect, other than eventual boredom. "Morgana le Fay" isn't really a horror movie; it's spooky, sure, but it never really tries to scare you. Such a typical set-up for a horror flick, and a superior atmosphere, leaves you wanting more.Hence, "Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay" is like an hour-and-a-half joke without the punchline.

Before you read this review, please familiarize yourself with the wonderful world of Mondo Macabro. They are a DVD label that specializes in releasing older obscure fantasy, science fiction, and horror films in North America and the United Kingdom. I've encountered the great films of Mexican director Juan López Moctezuma through them. Not everything they release is worth being discovered, though. Occasionally, a dud from forty years ago miraculously gets a special edition release. The following review is of one of those duds, and I might as well write on it since I will never see it again. If you have Netflix, consider getting Moctezuma's "Alucarda" and "The Mansion of Madness" before they become unavailable.Morgane et ses nymphes (translated as Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay) was released in European cinemas in 1971, during the erotic craze. It was another movie made for very little money hoping to empty the pockets of its young male audiences. Mainstream nudity was still a decade or so away, even in Europe, so people had to quietly sneak around to watch films like this. Making a good erotic film sounds a lot easier than it is. Beyond seeing lubricious women fondle things (preferably each other), an underlining plot has to be there. Otherwise the movie becomes boring, and making a boring sex flick is deplorable.Girl Slaves won't do as erotic film, and the problem lies with the filmmakers. On the DVD extras, director Bruno Gantillon says that he wanted the film to be "high art." See if you can reconcile these two: making a "high art" film for people who have only sexual interest in seeing the film. It can't be done, and the director deserves the blame for deceiving his audience. We see this pretentiousness manifest itself early when the protagonists are forced to spend the night in an abandoned building. They sleep close to each other but nothing happens beyond that. Why shouldn't we have seen something? The women find themselves at a magical castle inhabited by the titular Morgane and her beautiful captives. Morgane exists in the world of bad screenplays where issues like motivation for doing, well anything and plot progression don't exist. They are suggestive grooming sequences and interpretive dance. Morgane possesses the ability to transport herself. Some occasional nudity throughout this middle section would have helped a whole lot. It would have made the film more honest. Eventually we learn that prospective slaves may be granted eternal life in Morgane's harem or live out the remainder of their lives in the dungeon where they will become old and ugly. Gantillon fetishizes youth to extreme measures by placing the camera close to the face of old women several times. Again, it really hinders building any kind of atmosphere, which can substitute for nudity if done properly.We finally see the expected girl-girl scene, and it is ineffective due to some crazy idea of rapid cutting. There is one that lasts long enough to satisfy, if only the characters hadn't met only a few moments earlier. Gantillon actually succumbs to the lowbrow necessity of proving love scenes and fails to make them meaningful by just thrusting them in there. It would be refreshing if we actually had a dramatic, progressive narrative spliced with teases and a relieving payoff.The movie isn't stylistically better either. It doesn't appear that Gantillon spent time designing sets. His costume designer had to compensate for this lack of effort by providing unnecessarily weird outfits to be unfortunately worn too often. He also cast a dwarf actor to serve as Morgane's caretaker and unreciprocated love interest. Incompetence and exploitation are combined in Girl Slaves.Not Recommended

"Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay" is a fine if somewhat unspectacular entry.**SPOILERS**Traveling through the French countryside, friends Françoise, (Mireille Saunin) and Anna, (Michele Perello) wind up lost and are forced off the road. Staying over-night in an abandoned inn, she wakes up to find herself alone, and when Gurth, (Alfred Baillou) arrives, she is sent off to a nearby castle where Morgane, (Dominique Delpierre) resides, telling her of what happened to her friend. Eventually, she comes to realize that she is the leader of a group of witches who use human blood to ensure their own immortality, the process turning them into slaves who do her bidding, and that she is the next chosen one to join the coven. When this angers Yael, (Regine Motte) Sylviane, (Ursule Pauly) and Sarah, (Nathalie Chaine) they agree to sabotage the indoctrination ceremony to protest the change and try to make her see how useful they are to her instead.The News: This one definitely wasn't all that bad and had some good points to it. The fact that it has some really nice amount of nudity that really sticks out nicely. There's a lot of really good nude scenes in here, as the film begins with the right note with the slow-crawl up one women who's completely nude all the way up to the top, and after a lengthy conversation about her heretical ways, is dragged off. It's a fun way to open the film with what's going to be expected. There's also the film's best sequence, where the indoctrination ceremony requires all the women to go about in a sexual frenzy, and it just breaks down into a gigantic lesbian orgy, complete with tons of rubbing, kissing, licking and much more going on in an extreme detail. It's a lot better than expected and really didn't feel all too different from the other kind of erotic sequences that the rest of the film featured. That it goes fully nude and showcases everything in complete display offers up a lot of sleaze potential as well, getting to see everything that's possible and really getting a good look at it works wonders. The first scene with her at the castle, where the two slaves are going at it and the third one joins in only because someone told them too and then it goes all-out in the sleaze stakes which is really fun and generates a good scene. There's also a rather pronounced lesbian vibe that races through the first half, from the tender and erotic moments of them in the barn at the beginning that isn't very explicit at all to the later scenes where she's taken under the wing and included into the cult at the castle, with the way that everything seems to be completely lesbian in overall vibe and feeling without coming out and putting the label on it, making for some nice scenes. The film also has some really nice atmosphere early on with the car drive through the backwoods area being pretty creepy. The fact that it takes place at night through their vision using only the headlights as the only thing producing any visibility for the sequence, and their conversation and the creepy trees being highlighted make it a really enjoyable sequence. There's a couple problems with it, though, as the film doesn't seem as dirty as it could be. There's no violence whatsoever in the film, despite the fact that a little bit wouldn't have hurt it at all. The lone death occurs by stumbling across it after being done off-screen, and that would've worked for injecting some gore or some blood into the proceedings. Also, the nudity doesn't seem as bad as it should've been, since there's only a couple times where it features something, with the majority of the time being about showcasing them in frilly dresses without showing anything too explicit at times. This is due to the film's other mild flaw, the rather slow-going beginning that isn't all that exciting. It's quite boring for the majority of the time, not really doing much and staying quite dull for the first half. It does pick up slightly in the second half, but it's still not all that exciting in the first half, and constitutes the film's real flaws.The Final Verdict: While not as graphic in any respect as most exploitation films normally are, this one was a pleasant enough entry to serve some worth. Give it a shot if you're in need of a film that does what this offers or are a fan of the European-sleaze market, otherwise heed caution with it.Rated UR/R: Full Nudity, several sex scenes and Language

A dull road trip across France takes an unexpected turn when two sexy ladies Anna and Francoise stop in a creepy country village.They go into an abandoned barn where they have lesbian intercourse.When Anna disappears the next day her lover is scared.With the help of little hunchback Francoise soon finds her way to a mysterious castle ruled by spiritual vampire Morgana Le Fay and filled with ageless lesbians."Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay" is an erotic fairy tale with soft-core scenes of lesbian sex and a little bit of silken bondage.The girls are sexy enough and the location sets including lovely castle near the lake provide plenty of splendid Gothic mood.8 out of 10.Another fine DVD release from Pete Tombs and Mondo Macabro.