Spermula (1976)

In the United States in the 1930s, a sect made up of rich, eccentric libertines who rejected all ideas of love considered artistic creation a form of evil and tried to find the ecstasy of pure being in total sexual freedom. After a conference they convened in New York in 1937, all the sect’s members disappeared. Some people assumed they were extraterrestrials in disguise. Years later, a journalist found them in a secret place in the forests of South America, but they were never heard from again. Out of the mist, an enormous ship floats across the night sky. Inside, Spermula and her companions are returning to civilization to bring their message of peace and freedom to a world gone mad by “spermulating” men—that is, stripping them of their sexual essence, which causes aggression, ambition, and jealousy. They move into a mansion whose neighbors include the town mayor, his unhappy and abused wife, his assistant, and a widow. Spermula and her companions set in motion events that culminate in an orgy. The women are corrupted by this contact with the outside world, and their beautiful leader, Spermula, falls in love with a young artist and sacrifices her immortality for a night of passion with him.