This was a movie I believe that was on HBO or possibly Cinemax. I remember there was a doctor, or some sort of scientist and he had cultivated a breed of roses that smelled like, (and I'm pretty sure I remember this quote) "..The open lips of the vagina" He was showing them to a girl (i'm pretty sure the heroine) and I believe he was the killer at the end. Possibly soft-core.
:smile: Hi The Locust.
I checked around and what I came up with was a 1969 horror / sex thriller called Blood Rose, a French production. I must admit I haven't seen it, but this could be the film you're looking for.
The IMDB listing is www.imdb.com/title/tt0064902 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064902) :teddyr:
Dave covered "The Blood Rose" in his musings and ramblings, so I emailed him and asked if he could confirm or deny the identification:
http://www.scifilm.org/musings/musing343.html
Quote from: The Locust on May 02, 2007, 04:39:17 PM
This was a movie I believe that was on HBO or possibly Cinemax. I remember there was a doctor, or some sort of scientist and he had cultivated a breed of roses that smelled like, (and I'm pretty sure I remember this quote) "..The open lips of the vagina" He was showing them to a girl (i'm pretty sure the heroine) and I believe he was the killer at the end. Possibly soft-core.
Was he using the roses to kill people with? Or was that his profiling signature? "My God, detective, did you take a whiff of that rose he left by the corpse?"
BTW there is a real rose you can buy caled "Cardinal Hume" that smells exactly like a dead fish.
I just scanned through my copy of THE BLOOD ROSE, and this is definitely not the movie. There is no point where I saw a man showing a rose to a girl in this one. It also strikes me as rather unlikely that HBO or Cinemax would run an almost forgotten sleazy dubbed French film from the late sixties.
i think this is an episode of the hunger,hosted by david bowie..well,sort of...it was a shortlived series,but there are videotapes,possibly dvds available...the episode might be called a rose is a rose?
was this man kind of gardener? did he plant variety of flowers and other plants and took part in some flower exibitions/competitions? and he was killing women and somehow "transfer" them into flowers?
i dont remember this cited sentence, but it resembles me one movie - i can't remember title now, but if it's good trail, i'll dig deeper into my memory