Alex de Renzy's "Femmes de Sade" is something of a masterpiece in its own isolated and often neglected category. It's a tough, brutal 1970s pornographic horror film with an interesting plot, decent character design, and quasi-sadistic hardcore material. Rocky DeSade (Ken Turner, a huge, strange character whose last name in the film is, of course, a

Candida Royalle has a juicy starring role here as a high-class prostitute (actually, much more than that) working for the mysterious Frisco man, John Carmichael (Jake Teague, in a gender-neutral role). Wealthy heiress Mabel Carter (an incestuous Marlene Willoughby) has hired them in a plan to get her spoiled son Marc (Jeremy Wyatt) to marry her, al