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Jesús Franco (1930–2013) was a Spanish filmmaker. At a young age, Franco had a passion for comics and music, and followed his love of music, specifically jazz. [1] After his father found out about him working as a jazz musician, he enroled him a religious university in 1949.
Lucas Balbo, Peter Blumenstock, Christian Kessler, Tim Lucas, Obsession - The Films of Jess Franco (1993) Stephen Thrower, Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press. (2018) Tim Lucas, "How to Read a Franco Film", in Video Watchdog No. 1 (1990) "Article". Archived from the original on 14 October 2009
Marquis de Sade: Justine (Italian: Justine ovvero le disavventure della virtù, lit. 'Justine or the misadventures of virtue', also released as Deadly Sanctuary) [1] is a 1969 erotic period drama film directed by Jesús Franco, written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, and based on the 1791 novel Justine by the Marquis de Sade.
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The Blood of Fu Manchu (German: Der Todeskuss des Dr. Fu Man Chu, lit. 'The Death-Kiss of Dr. Fu Manchu', Spanish: Fu-Manchú y el beso de la muerte), also known as Kiss of Death, Kiss and Kill (U.S. title) and Against All Odds (original U.S. video title), is a 1968 British adventure crime film directed by Jesús Franco, based on the fictional Asian villain Dr. Fu Manchu created by Sax Rohmer.
[2] [8] It was the first feature film director Jesús Franco made with an international cast and a full sized-crew in nearly 20 years. [9] The film's budget was Franco's largest since Succubus (1968). [10] [11] The special effects manager on Faceless was Jacques Gastineau. It was his second special effects job after doing work in Terminus (1987 ...
Following the film’s premiere at the Sitges Film Festival, a review in Variety pronounced the film full of cliches and was bewildered by the uncertain historical setting of the film. [2] French genre film magazine L'Écran fantastique stated that Franco's reverence to the Universal horror films of the 1940s never resulted in anything more ...
Women in Cellblock 9 (German: Frauen für Zellenblock 9) is a 1977 Swiss exploitation action film written and directed by Jess Franco and starring Karine Gambier. Its main theme is women in prison . Plot