50 years ago:
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac (FR)
Original title: Le journal intime d'une nymphomane
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno ...
1973-06-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/203474
#JesúsFranco #Movies

#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 26: A Dracula movie for
#WorldDraculaDay

A black forest. A man walks through, holding a smoke machine. Then a carriage with a familiar coachman. #Dracula! Where are we? No, not 19th century #Transylvania. The film stock reveals bullet holes in ancient walls, and beyond these walls a ladder, maybe scaffolding. #PerePortabella's 1971 Cuadecuc, vampir is a hyper-reality.

☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/cuadecuc-vampir-1971

#JesúsFranco #vampires #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon

64 years ago:
We Are 18 Years Old (ES)
Original title: Tenemos 18 años
Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends.
1959-05-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190806
#WeAre18YearsOld #JesúsFranco #MaríaLuisaPonte #ClassicFilm

55 years ago:
Succubus (DE,PT,ES)
Original title: Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden
Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.
1968-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28279
#Succubus #JesúsFranco #JanineReynaud #JackTaylor #HowardVernon #Horror #ClassicFilm

46 years ago:
Slaves (CH)
Original title: Die Sklavinnen
A brothel owner is questioned in the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy man after she is still not returned, or told of her possible whereabouts, after the $5,000,000 ransom was paid.
1977-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196184
#Slaves #LinaRomay #MartineStedil #JesúsFranco #Film

50 years ago:
Eugenie de Sade (FR,LI)
Original title: Eugénie
Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually...
1973-04-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28298
#EugeniedeSade #JesúsFranco #SoledadMiranda #PaulMüller #AliceArno #ClassicFilm

52 years ago:
The Devil Came from Akasava (DE,ES)
Original title: Edgar Wallace - Der Teufel kam aus Akasava
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
1971-03-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5623
#TheDevilCamefromAkasava #JesúsFranco #SoledadMiranda #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

39 years ago:
Night Has a Thousand Desires (ES)
Original title: Mil sexos tiene la noche
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.
1984-03-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/132818
#NightHasaThousandDesires #LinaRomay #JesúsFranco #Horror #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

54 years ago:
99 Women (DE,ES,GB,IT,LI)
Original title: Der heiße Tod
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on cla...
1969-03-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28277
#99Women #JesúsFranco #MariaSchell #HerbertLom #MercedesMcCambridge #Film

45 years ago:
Women Without Innocence (CH)
Original title: Frauen ohne Unschuld
Margarita is found, naked and bloody in a luxurious house and is promptly taken to a mental institute. The doctors and nurses meant to take care of her aren't exactly who they seem and a mysterious figure, clad in black, circles the premise at night, offing nubile young women.
1978-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68642
#WomenWithoutInnocence #JesúsFranco #LinaRomay #MurielMontossé #MonicaSwinn #ClassicFilm

50 years ago:
The Demons (FR,PT)
Original title: Les démons
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.
1973-02-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/86645
#TheDemons #JesúsFranco #AnneLibert #CarmenYazalde #KarinField #Horror #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

On January 7, 1964 The Awful Dr. Orloff debuted in Japan. Marking the occasion with some original fan art!
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#TheAwfulDrOrlof #ScreamsInTheNight #JesusFranco #HowardVernon #Horror #HorrorMovie #HorrorArt #SciFiArt #60sMovies #60sHorror #TCMUnderground #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Venus in Furs (AKA Paroxismus) from 1969 is one of Jess Franco’s most satisfying films. It’s a dream-like hallucinogenic movie that plays havoc with reality and illusion.

Franco was a jazz aficionado and was interested in the idea of structuring movies like jazz improvisations.

Stars James Darren and Maria Rohm. Superb movie.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2020/05/venus-in-furs-aka-paroxismus-1969.html

#JessFranco #JesusFranco #cultmovies #artmovies #surrealism #surrealistmovies #eurocultmovies #eurocult #JamesDarren #MariaRohm

I'm taking it easy with spending money at the moment, because ya know...

But I couldn't stop myself and ordered Severin Films blu-ray of Jess Franco's Faceless, which is a superb, kitchy, gory and fun the on Eyes Without a Face. The soundtrack, consisting of extremely catchy European pop songs is also fab!

As a bonus I also added a damaged slipcover to the same film, signed by Brigitte Lahaie.

#jessfranco #eurocult #brigittelahaie #jesusfranco #severenfilms

#Faceless (1988) d. #JesúsFranco
Off to #Darkfest V on Saturday but as I can only stay for a couple of hours thought I'd better re-watch a couple of the films on offer just in case I don't get a chance to see them. Might take my trusty dvd to be signed by #BrigitteLahaie and #CarolineMunro.