Les démoniaques (English: The Demoniacs; also known as Curse of the Living Dead) is a 1974 French rape and revenge supernatural horror film written and directed by Jean Rollin, and starring Joëlle Coeur, Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier, John Rico, and Willy Braque.
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A band of notorious shipwreckers force a ship to crash and they ransack its contents; led by the Captain, the group also includes two subordinates, Le Bosco and Paul, and the Captain's lover, Tina. The ruthless gang brutally attack two young women survivors of the wreck by raping and beating them, causing Tina to become sexually aroused.
While drinking in a local tavern, the Captain begins to have visions of the women's dead bodies. The tavern’s landlady, Louise, a clairvoyant, suspects that he has a guilty conscience, which riles him up into a frenzy. A bar fight erupts as Le Bosco and Paul attempt to bring the Captain under control. Word gets around that spectres of the two women were seen wandering around a ship cemetery, near haunted ruins, where a demon has been imprisoned for a century. The community fears the ruins, and believe the demon's return is imminent.
The shipwreckers believe that the women are still alive and track them to the ship cemetery, intent on killing them. They set fire to the ships as a means to lure them out and Tina attacks them, before they fight her off and escape. They make their way to the haunted ruins with Tina in pursuit. She is stopped by the Captain, as even he and the other wreckers fear the grounds.