Jess Franco’s The Bloody Judge, which was theatrically released in the U.S. by AIP under the nonsensical title of Night of the Blood Monster, is one of the filmmaker’s most lavish productions. It’s ...
If you can’t be considered an expert on a director until you’ve seen all of his or her movies, then there are probably fewer experts about director Jesus “Jess” Franco, who died earlier this week at ...
As with all Franco/Dietrich productions, Slaves packs a sleazy wallop but its grimy doses of sex and violence are juxtaposed by rich production values, gorgeous cinematography by Peter Baumgartner and ...
VAMPYROS LESBOS screens midnights this Friday and Saturday (February 6 th and 7th) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117) I can’t believe after all these years I’m ...
Something I mentioned in a previous review is that Severin Films is slowly but surely turning me into, well… not a fan but at the very least someone who can appreciate the work of Jess Franco. The ...
Few filmmakers are as polarizing as Spanish director Jesus Franco. Some hail him as a trash film king while others denigrate him as a complete hack. His overuse of the zoom lens causes some viewers to ...
Legendary producer Erwin C. Dietrich backed Franco, calmed Kinski and made many masterpieces in the process. The European mirror of prolific cinematic plate-spinner Roger Corman has to be Swiss-born ...
Jess Franco, the prolific Spanish filmmaker who became renowned for his low-budget cult films, died in Malaga, Spain, of heart complications. He was 82. Franco’s feature pic debut came in 1959 with ...
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