FRANCO Archive

  • 113/12/2013

    Küß mich, Monster – 1969 / Director: Jess Franco

    You mean that he really created two fully developed  physical beings, artificially? Yes, but without developing intelligence along with it, they are like dogs… Up until about an hour and…

  • 028/10/2013

    Female Vampire – 1973 / Director: Jess Franco

    I earnestly wish an end would come to this bloody race I am forced to run. Female Vampire is, frankly, images of softcore. At times it looks like it went…

  • 006/04/2013

    Jess Franco 1930-2013

    It is to my eternal regret and shame that I never contributed to VTSS’s recent Jess Franco review season. I wanted to write about Devil Hunter, which I had just…

  • 201/02/2013

    Jess Franco vs Jean Rollin

    Disclaimer: this piece was written by me (slightly drunk and very pissed off) at the end of a three-week period in which I watched close on twenty films that I…

  • 125/01/2013

    Jess Franco: A personal journey

    Jess Franco, that anarchic, cantankerous B (if you’re feeling generous) movie poet divides cult movie fans like few other directors rummaging around the psychotronic scrap yard. He manages to avoid…

  • 024/01/2013

    Faceless – 1987 / Director: Jess Franco

    Go to Ingrid’s room, and do whatever she wants I made the mistake of watching this pedestrian rubbish on a Friday night, after a hard week at work, an arduous…

  • 223/01/2013

    Bloody Moon – 1981 / Director: Jess Franco

    Avoid references to that unfortunate night. He might not be cured Bloody Hell! When it comes to sheer bloody mindedness, Jess Franco‘s outre Euro-tinged interpretation of the typical Yankee Slasher,…

  • 022/01/2013

    A Virgin Among the Living Dead – 1973 / Director: Jess Franco

    Just five short years after George Romero’s game-changing Night of the Living Dead comes Jess Franco‘s sleazy, bizarre and often very funny addition to the genre. Forget a farmhouse barricaded…

  • 221/01/2013

    Oasis of the Zombies – 1981 / Director: Jess Franco

    The Nomad’s say the dead are still alive and evil powers strike all those who come near. The Oasis is damned! It is surely with some degree of self inflicted…

  • 1111/01/2013

    The Perverse Countess – 1974 / Director: Jess Franco

      I was glad that Mike had  asked me to do this. I had been, over the last couple of weeks or so, putting together an Italian film fanzine.  Anyhow,…

  • 010/01/2013

    Vampyros Lesbos – 1970 / Director: Jess Franco

    Within a month and a few days I’ve ingested mentally many different takes on the vampire myth, mostly films but including one novella – the origins in Joseph Sheridan Le…

  • 109/01/2013

    Eugénie…the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion – 1970 / Director: Jess Franco

    Was that entirely wise? Do you love me for my wisdom? Jess Franco, just like Dario Argento, is held in a mystifyingly high regard by many genre fans, but I’ve…

  • 008/01/2013

    Devil Hunter – 1980 / Director: Jess Franco

    Damn! Shit! What a fuckin’ awful place. Flowers? Shit! Dammit, dammit, dammit! This wild vegetation gives me the creeps! It’s not, perhaps, a good sign when this piece of cinematic…

  • 007/01/2013

    X312: Flight to Hell – 1971 / Director: Jess Franco

    My dear Joey Vargas. When you hear this report you won’t believe your ears. Yes. I Tom Nilson, an American journalist in Brazil have just returned from the depths of…