Based on the true story of the Papin sisters, Murderous Maids is a taut psychological examination of one of Europe's most memorable crimes. In 1933, Christine and Léa Papin murdered their employer and her daughter in such brutal fashion as to rattle the whole of France.

Brought up from birth to maids like their mother, Christine and Léa take various jobs for local nobility. Christine, the dominant of the pair, grows insecure about her sister and resentful of their mother. She schemes to get Léa assigned to the same house, and tries to prevent contact with their increasingly estranged mother, much to her dismay. Her paranoid actions start to interfere with her work, and she moves from job to job until she settles down at the home of the Lancelin family, where she convinces the owners to hire Léa as well. A joy at first, the job quickly turns sour when Christine's paranoia arouses suspicion.

All the while, incestuous thoughts are forming between Christine and Léa, as they grow increasingly isolated from outside contact. When the sisters give in to their temptations for the first time, the phrase "Holy shit, that chick's going to do it with her sister!" undoubtedly coursed through the minds of the near-sellout crowd. Or maybe just I was thinking that. Regardless, the steamy sister-on-sister action escalates from there, until the unexpected return of their suspicious employers catches them off-guard one night.

Fearing dismissal and the exposure of their sexual shenanigans, Christine loses her tenuous grip on reality, and proceeds to slaughter Madame Lancelin and Genevieve. The lightweight crowd gasped in horror, but I didn't bat an eyelash at the volatile murder sequence that featured head bashing, strangulation, corpse mutilation and some good ol' fashioned eye gouging. Arrested, imprisoned, and separated from Léa, Christine deteriorates further into madness as the film draws to a close. While more of a straight drama than a horror film, Murderous Maids was enjoyable nonetheless, in no small part due the gripping performances of its lead actors. And homoerotic incest never hurts, either.

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