Black Candles (1982)

Director
José Ramón Larraz

Main cast
Helga Liné; Vanessa Hidalgo; Mauro Ribera; Alfred Lucchetti; Carmen Carrión

Genres
Horror

Description
A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress.


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