Battered Flesh (1978) follows a woman recently released from prison who struggles to rebuild her life in a Spain still scarred by repression and patriarchy. Confronted by humiliation, exploitation, and indifference, her attempt at freedom becomes a harrowing journey through social and personal degradation. This stark realist drama blends feminist rage and political critique in Javier Aguirre’s unflinching portrayal of trauma, survival, and dignity in post-Franco society.
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- Severin’s Blu-ray is included in the “Exorcismo: Defying a Dictator & Raising Hell in Post-Franco Spain” box set with Far from the Trees (1972), The Bell from Hell (1973), Creation of the Damned (1974), The Devil’s Exorcist (1975), The People Who Own the Dark (1976), Faces (1978), The Priest (1978), Triangle of Lust (1978), Sins of a Nympho (1979), Dimorfo (1980), That House in the Outskirts (1980), Bloody Sex (1981), Supernatural (1981), After… Part One: Can’t You Be Left Alone? (1983), After… Part Two: Tied Up and Tied Up Well (1983), Morbus (1983), Poppers (1984) and Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada ‘S’ (2024). It contains a 168-page booklet.
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