The Devil's Sisters

The Devil's Sisters (1966)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Teresa (Sharon Saxon) is beaten and bloody as she lays in a bed when some police walk in. At first they think she's just a prostitute that has been beaten but she says there's much more to the story so she tells it to them. It turns out that she went to a house for a job when she was kidnapped and held hostage by a couple people. Soon she was forced into prostitution.

THE DEVIL'S SISTERS is a different kind of film for director William Grefe because it doesn't take place in Florida and instead the setting is Mexico. During the featurette we're told by the director that this here was based on a true story and he also mentions that the film was lost for several decades before he was able to secure a print from Germany. The only problem is that the final eight minutes are missing so these scenes have Grefe talking about them over storyboards.

As far as the film itself goes, I found it to be rather boring because not much really happens. The majority of the running time has Teresa inside a small room where she sits around while at times men come in to beat her. The majority of the violence is off-screen so trying to label this film as a roughie isn't that correct. If you're looking for any type of exploitation/nudity then you can forget that too as the movie is fairly lame. I thought Saxon was good in the lead role but there's no question that she needed more of a story to work with.

Teresa(Sharon Saxon)is an innocent and virginal Mexican girl who wants to have a better life.She finds a job as a 'maid' in the Tijuana mansion of Rita Alverado.In fact she becomes prostitute who is beaten,raped and forced to serve many clients.To make matters worse Teresa is later sent to the ranch run by Rita's sister Carmen.Along with other captive women the girl is imprisoned in the stable,beaten and tortured with barbed wire.Finally she manages to escape from hell."The Devil's Sisters" is loosely based on a true crime case.Delfina and María de Jesús González (known as "Las Poquianchis")were two murderous sisters from the Mexican state of Guanajuato,located 200 miles north of Mexico City.From the 1950s until the mid-1960s the sisters ran Rancho El Ángel,called the "bordello from hell" in San Francisco del Rincón."The Devil's Sisters" was considered lost for many years until William Grefé was able to find a print in Germany.The film is missing final eight minutes which were reconstructed with the help of William Grefe.7 barb wires out of 10.