Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion marked the second of Franco's de Sade-themed films after Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969). It has often been confused with his later and more explicit Eugenie de Sade (filmed in 1970, released 1973), an adaptation of de Sade's short story "Eugénie de Franval" (1800) which starred Soledad Miranda, as both films are often referred to simply as Eugenie. To complicate matters further, the director went on to make a second adaptation of Philosophy in the Bedroom, entitled Eugenie (Historia de una perversión), in 1980.[3]
Anchor Bay Entertainment released Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion on DVD in the United Kingdom. It was subsequently released on DVD in North America by Blue Underground in 2002.[5] Blue Underground released the film again in a in 2015 in a three-disc limited edition set (featuring Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film, as well as a soundtrack CD),[6] followed by a standalone Blu-ray release in 2020.[7]
Mann, Dave (2014). Harry Alan Towers: The Transnational Career a Cinematic Contrarian. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN978-0-786-47982-5.
Olney, Ian (2013). Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN978-0-253-00648-6.
Further reading
Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. London: Strange Attractor Press. ISBN978-1-907222-31-3.