Kino Cult is a new label that embraces a trademark brand of “unapologetically weird” with such diverse genres as European erotica, grindhouse classics, and cinematic rediscoveries that defy categorization. One of their first three releases is Lorna the Exorcist.

This release has an introduction by Stephen Thrower, commentary by Tim Lucas, and interviews with Gérard Kikoïne and Pamela Stanford.

You can get Lorna the Exorcist from Kino Lorber.

Patrick Mariel (Guy Delorme) decides to take his perfect family to the south of France on holiday, but before long, his wife Marianne (Jacqueline Laurent) and his on the cusp of womanhood daughter Linda (Lina Romay) are dealing with supernatural trauma.

Moments before they even depart, threatening phone calls start coming to their home from Lorna (Pamela Stanford), a woman from Patrick’s wild past who is the reason for his success and someone who has transcended mortality to become a demonic succubus, as a Jess Franco character often does. The deal that she made in blood with Patrick has come due and now, she’d rather take Linda than anything else.

Stanford was also in Franco’s Succubus, but here she’s coating her face in tons of makeup — like a John Waters character or a heel All Japan Women’s wrestler from the 1980s — and unleashing small crabs on her victims. You can’t say that Jess Franco doesn’t try to make it weird. He also shows up as the doctor of a clinic who is taking care of an always nude insane woman (Catherine Lafferière)  who has also been possessed by Lorna. Howard Vernon is also in this as Lorna’s butler. And yes, if you wondered how much Jess Franco loves the body parts of women, especially what’s between their thighs, the zoom lens will tell all.

I mean, this movie starts with a long sapphic dream encounter between Lorna and Linda and most of the movie has no story other than love scenes and occult attacks. Please understand that this means that this movie is great.

Franco made this movie for producer Robert de Nesle, who put it out as a clone of The Exorcist, as happened often in the 70s, then re-released it with inserts and called it Luscious Linda, as if trying to figure out what Franco movie it is as the director also made The Story of Linda, AKA Captive Women, as well as Who Raped Linda? And because this is Jess Franco, he remade this movie in 2002 as the shot on video Incubus.