What better kind of cinema to evoke the decadent universe of Oscar Wilde and the depravation of Dorian Gray? Why Italian B-cinema, of course! Where eroticism, sadism, and the lives of amoral, dubious characters are typical ingredients, captured full-frontal and with a total disregard for prudishness. In the (extremely rare) Dorian Gray, Massimo Dallamano –cinematographer for Sergio Leone's first Westerns and director of the cult giallo What Have You Done To Solange? – ingeniously transposes the story to the excess-ridden Swinging London of the 1960s. Here the handsome Dorian is played by a divine Helmut Berger, Visconti's muse from the films Ludwig and The Damned.

Spanish director Jesus "Jess" Franco on the other hand, has a penchant for the decadence of aristocracy. The Perverse Countess is one of his seminal films that spawned several remakes… the film itself is a sadistic variation of the classic The Most Dangerous Game by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel. The manhunt turns into a woman-hunt…. with the prey as naked as the huntress!