Mireille Saunin and Michele Perello go on a road trip through the French countryside, stop at an inn where they're stared at by a bunch of ugly old guys and a dwarf (Alfred Baillou), run out of gas in the middle of the night and wind up sleeping in an old barn. Sounds like the makings of a ?70s Italian slasher pic, right?

But the focus of this subtitled flick, seeing its first American release, is sex, not blood, as mistress of the castle Morgana invites Mireille, who's gone searching for her lost friend, to join her band of merry (well, reasonably so) "slave girls" and be young forever ... or as long as they don't displease Morgana, anyway.

Along the way, there's plenty of nudity and intimations of sex as Mireille bonds with the witch (Morgan Le Fay was Merlin's Arthurian counterpart), then later tries to escape.

Retailing: Provocative title and lots of tit should move this French flick off shelves.