The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious ‘beast’ is stalking the vicinity.

Walerian Borowczyk leaves political correctness at the door with this mischievously amoral erotic fable. A withering indictment of sensual repression and social mores, The Beast draws on the traditions of surrealism and French farce for an uninhibited examination of sexual appetites running wild.