Inspired by Hitchcock's ROPE, Director Jess Franco utilized long takes, minimal edits and his beloved Lina Romay at her most extreme for this de Sade-induced saga of violence,depravity and psychosexual mayhem among the amoral elite. Antonio Mayans, Rocío Freixas, and Elisa Vela co-star in this fascinating Franco rarity.
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Obscure even by hardcore Jess Franco fan standards, it remains the legendary writer/director's most daring work of his early '80s erotic shocker oeuvre: Inspired by Hitchcock's ROPE, Franco utilized long takes, minimal edits and his beloved Lina Romay at her most extreme for this de Sade-induced saga of violence, depravity and psychosexual mayhem among the amoral elite. Antonio Mayans (aka Robert Foster of DEVIL HUNTER and HOT NIGHTS OF LINDA), Rocío Freixas (THE SINISTER DR. ORLOFF) and Elisa Vela (aka Jasmina Bell of MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this fascinating Franco rarity from his Golden Films Internacional period, now featuring a 4k scan from the original negative.
This video is presnted in it's native Spanish language, with optional English subtitles.
Obscure even by hardcore Jess Franco fan standards, it remains the legendary writer/director's most daring work of his early '80s erotic shocker oeuvre: Inspired by Hitchcock's ROPE, Franco utilized long takes, minimal edits and his beloved Lina Romay at her most extreme for this de Sade-induced saga of violence, depravity and psychosexual mayhem among the amoral elite. Antonio Mayans (aka Robert Foster of DEVIL HUNTER and HOT NIGHTS OF LINDA), Rocío Freixas (THE SINISTER DR. ORLOFF) and Elisa Vela (aka Jasmina Bell of MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this fascinating Franco rarity from his Golden Films Internacional period, now featuring a 4k scan from the original negative.
This video is presnted in it's native Spanish language, with optional English subtitles.
Cries of Pleasure
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Duration: 1h26Enter the Fortress of Pleasure and Pain. Directed by Jess Franco - the underrated genius of exploitative 70s moviemaking.
In 1982 Jess Franco created this blithely twisted drama that is equal parts Buñuelian black comedy, over-the-top soap opera and furiously perverse sex shocker: Lina Romay stars as a pensive young nymphomaniac whose life on a remote island with her father, stepmother and mentally-challenged sister seethes with violence, incest and some of the most degenerate scenarios of the entire Franco canon.
When a down-on-his-luck private eye is hired by a sultry client, he'll find himself caught in a web of seduction, blackmail and murder. Directed by Jess Franco.
James Darren stars as a traumatized trumpeter sucked into a whirlpool of psycho-sexual horror along with his sultry girlfriend (singer Barbara McNair), a kinky lesbian (Margaret Lee), a depraved playboy (the legendary Klaus Kinski) and the mysterious insatiable beauty (luscious Maria Rohm) who may lead them all straight to Hell.