DVD
Original Aspect Ratio of 2.35:1 - Widescreen, Anamorphic. This is interesting as Franco rarely worked in this aspect ratio.

Video
A very nice presentation for a film that was believed lost. It is soft overall and appears to have been that way in the source print with some ringing around high contrast areas usually a result of an attempt to enhance detail. Color is good with a bit of video noise present at times. Some dramatic scenes are over saturated for effect using a blood red filter or tint. Very little film damage is apparent and none of these items detract from its viewing.

Sound
The sound is English and French dubbed mono with no subtitling. Voices are clear and distortion free with little hiss noticeable. The score, while not Bruno Nicolai's best work, comes through well. The native English track is the better of the two.

Extras
A documentary, listed on the menu as "Perverse Stories" contains interviews with Franco, Liljedahl and Christopher Lee (Dracula, Lord of the Rings). Lee's part in this interview is especially interesting. The person originally casted for this role died two days earlier. Lee was contacted and told it was just a couple days of filming him reciting Sade's works while wearing his red smoking jacket (the one he wore in his film about Sherlock Holmes). Lee consented, did two days of filming with the cast present, at which point his part was complete. Later, unknown to him, all the scenes were reshot around him replacing the docile clad members with naked members immersed in orgies of perversion and torture. He found out about it some while later when a friend told him it was showing at an x-rated venue down the street. Thirty years after the fact in this interview, he was quite glib about the whole thing stating "Well, I guess now I have appeared in just about every kind of movie than can be made." Harry Alan Towers admits that they probably deceived him "Just a little bit." The documentary also touches on the area of sexuality and censorship. Liljedahl mentions how she was young and didn't know what she was doing, and stopped doing those parts later on. Franco muses on how he only does soft porn and how shocked his distributors were when they saw what he had delivered, expecting much racier stuff.

There is a gallery section, where about 75 black & white and color stills are presented, many R-rated including both foreign and domestic lobby cards. Included is the entire press book. You can get a general feel for the piece, but most of the text is too small to read.

A Franco filmography and biography is there and appears to be the same one as on the "Justine" (1968) DVD. Widescreen trailers for both Eugenie and Justine are present as well.

Final Thoughts
A very complex work supported by a good and enjoyable cast. Viewers of this genre that enjoy works such as "Image", "Justine and "Inga" will definitely want to pick it up to add to their collection of Euro's as well as readers of De Sade's works that desire a softer version in video form. Those critical of Franco's work may have a different feeling after seeing this one.