The sexually salacious cases originally presented in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious, turn-of-the-century medical text come to the screen in a complicated collection of erotic stories strung together by the curious tale of a manipulative doctor who may not always have his patient's best interests in mind. From the story of a sexually repressed man who develops a troubling taste for human blood to the tale of a homosexual seeking to "cure" his condition, a masochist who enlists the aid of
two corseted prostitutes in making his wildest dreams come true, and a lesbian who finds her sexual urges too powerful to resist when hired to tutor a sexually adventurous female student, the controversial case-studies that stunned Victorian England in the early years of the 1900s are recreated for the camera almost a century later to show just how little has changed in the realm of human sexuality. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
...it's clear from the pedantic tone of the dramatic re-enactments (imagine an adult History Channel) that writer-director Bret Wood believes he's showing us the sexual revolution's Magna Carta.
material seems 2 be the problem here like some books like 'everything you wanted to know abouit sex" this book documenting sexual deviants doesn't translate well to the screen.
September 12, 2011
Gregory Wood
A very interesting movie. If you saw Kinsey, this movie is much more perverse. Its different short stories/tales based on the some of the studies into sexual perversion that Krafft-Ebing investigated in the late 1800's.
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