A thriller featuring *ahem* unique roses.

[The Locust]

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.

[Trevor]

  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 

[Andrew]

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

[Fishasaurus]

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.

[DSindelar]

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.

[316zombie]

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?

[loge]

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