In 2023, a complete print of the original cut was found at the La Cinémathèque Française, and utilized by Severin Films for a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release.

Joe Spinell's performance is widely celebrated as the heart of the film, with his real-life mother adding charm.

Accompanying Jana at Cannes is her manager and ex-husband Bret Bates, as well as her boyfriend Alan Cunningham, who has produced the film.

Shortly afterwards, Jana and Cunningham attend a press conference, where she receives a note saying, "You've made your last horror film.

Later that night, while Jana is showering in her hotel room, Durand sneaks in with a bottle of champagne, hoping to charm her into starring in his film.

A terrified Jana orders him to leave, causing Durand to break the champagne bottle in anger and threaten her with the jagged glass.

A bellboy arrives and interrupts the encounter, after which Jana flees through the hotel lobby, which guests mistake for another publicity stunt.

Durand, caught off guard, stops and smiles for the onlookers, allowing Jana to escape in a car with Cunningham.

The next day, Cunningham drives Jana to a remote château in the French countryside where his friend Jonathan is staying.

That evening, he sneaks into the château, to be chased away by Jana's bodyguards who shoot pistols in the dark to accidentally kill Jonathan instead without realizing it.

Bret, revealed to be the killer and the mastermind behind this, says that on the day when Durand phoned him about his film proposal, he realized that he was the perfect fall guy to set up to get even with Jana for leaving him.

[2] After its initial release much the film's gore was excised from the original negative, appearing mainly on VHS prints that chose to retain it.

Eventually, author Guillaume Le Disez located a 35 mm print of the original cut at La Cinémathèque Française in excellent condition.

As such, this is horror of a decidedly self-reflexive stamp, made two decades before Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale would again use Cannes as the backdrop to all manner of postmodern play in the world of genre.

"[8] Upon its 2023 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release, John Squires also of Bloody Disgusting also liked it and in his article he wrote that it is “an awesome movie and Spinell’s best film.”[9]