How to Seduce a Virgin (1974)
Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and the mute servant girl Adèle, and impatiently demands the key to her mysterious private chamber. There, set out like exhibits in a waxwork, are the bodies of beautiful girls frozen in postures of terror on the point of death. With Mathias' help, Martine has just added another girl, a prostitute, to her collection when her husband and accomplice, Charles, arrives home with slides of a further prospective victim: Cécile the virginal daughter of a diplomat...
Director: Jesús Franco
![]() |
Alice Arno as Martine Bressac |
![]() |
Howard Vernon as Mathias |
![]() |
Tania Busselier as Cécile |
![]() |
Alfred Baillou as Malou |
![]() |
Robert Woods as Charles Bressac |
![]() |
Lina Romay as Adèle |
| Directing | Jesús Franco | Director |
| Writing | Jesús Franco | Writer |
| Writing | Marquis de Sade | Novel |
| Writing | Alain Petit | Adaptation |
| Writing | Alain Petit | Dialogue |
| Production | Robert de Nesle | Producer |
| Directing | Simone Leguillon | Script Supervisor |
| Editing | Gérard Kikoïne | Editor |
| Production | Claude Pessis | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Patrick de Coninck | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Michel Condo | Sound |
| Camera | Howard Vernon | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Daniel Janin | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Robert Hermel | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Antonio Millán | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Gérard Brisseau | Director of Photography |