Shock Treatment

Girardot is a made-it-herself rich woman who becomes depressed and begins feeling her age when a younger lover abandons her. She goes to a sanatorium off the French coast to cheer up, but runs into a few unexpected problems. The chief doctor (Delon) is a younger man and seems normal enough, but his patients are a different story. A group of Portuguese boys arrive to do some work but they are soon gone, apparently because the climate didn't agree with them. In reality, they are subjects of Delon's bizarre experiments. He drugs the young people and slowly bleeds them to death, so he can use the bodies to keep his affluent clientele feeling younger. Girardot kills the...