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It is the subplot of the mysterious Wanda coming back from the dead to kill those who killed her that allows Franco’s trademark of “surrealism”within film to work in “Venus in Furs”. Wanda just doesn’t kill for revenge but she seduces her victims the way they had seduced her and it is through eroticism that she captures them, as if they submit to her revenge willingly, and in this Wanda discovers that all three of her soon-to-be-victims are in fact in love with her. Wanda always shows up in her fur coat prior to extracting her revenge. She dominates all three sexually and psychologically and they enjoy being dominated by Wanda, even though they realize it will end in their demise. Wanda sexually teases Percival but he is not sure if she is real or a ghost. He goes mad and suffers a heart-attack.

Olga has a lesbian relationship with Wanda, not realizing who she is, but once she discovers her scars, overcome with guilt, Olga climbs into a bathtub and commits suicide by slashing her wrists with a razor blade, dying slowly while she confesses her love for Wanda.

The movie opens with Jimmy playing his trumpet along a beach in Istanbul, Turkey when Wanda’s body washes up on shore. Although she is dead, he has a revelation that she is a woman he had recently met at a party.