At its core, Bestialità tries to disguise itself as a psychological drama about the long-term effects of childhood trauma, but it quickly surrenders to pure, unadulterated Italian sleaze.
The story focuses on a young girl named Jeanine (played as an adult by Leonora Fani) who suffers severe childhood trauma after witnessing her mother (Franca Stoppi) engaging in simulated relations with the family's Doberman. When her father discovers this, he chains the dog inside the house and burns it to the ground. Bestiality -Bestialita- - Peter Skerl 1976 -Vhs...
Fans of Italian horror will immediately recognize Eastman (born Luigi Montefiori). He is the legendary, towering actor and writer behind ultra-gory masterpieces like Anthropophagus and Porno Holocaust . His script for Bestialità guarantees a high level of shock value and boundary-pushing deviance. At its core, Bestialità tries to disguise itself
The figure at the center of this controversy, director Peter Skerl, is almost as mysterious as the film itself. Born in 1942, Skerl has often been described as one of the most enigmatic faces in Italian genre cinema. His background was unusually cosmopolitan: his father was born in Trieste to Slovenian parents, while his mother was born in Chișinău and was of Russian-Polish origin. Skerl began his artistic career as an actor and playwright, starting his own theater company called "I Giovani Artisti" (The Young Artists). Fans of Italian horror will immediately recognize Eastman
(internationally released as Bestiality or Dog Lay Afternoon ) is a 1976 Italian exploitation thriller directed by Peter Skerl and co-written by the notorious cult film figure George Eastman . Long buried in the annals of obscure Euro-sleaze, the film occupies a highly controversial niche within 1970s grindhouse cinema due to its provocative title, transgressive premise, and its rare, highly sought-after VHS releases. Despite its shocking exploitation marketing, the film surprises viewers by functioning more as a slow-burn, jaded bourgeois art-house drama than standard adult smut. The Plot and Conceptual Premise