JESS FRANCO MONTH: Le jouisseur (1975)
Also known as Sexy Erotic Jobb — yes, that’s how it’s spelled on the poster — this movie has Count Roland (Fred Williams) leaving behind his boring life to a rich wife to become a butler to the also rich and famous, which allows him to go back to his youthful days of being on top […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Bahia Blanca (1985)
The island in this movie is a bad, bad place, filled with bad, bad people. So when the body of Martin El Pocho washes up on the shore, anyone could be the killer in a town filled with angry fishermen, thugs and women of ill repute. Sheriff Carlos (Antonio Mayans) and the cornoner Dr. Ramiro […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Downtown (1975)
Can Al Pereira (Jess Franco) ever catch a break? Stuck in Puerto Rico, down on his luck and broke, he finally gets a job seeing if Carlos Ramos (Eric Fauk) is cheating on his wife Cynthia (Lina Romay), who soon falls into bed with our detective hero and pins the murder of her husvand on […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Dr. Orloff’s Monster (1964)
Jess Franco had enough money for film stock and some of the cast, the rest of this movie was made thanks to the kindness of others. And this time, the shadow of Dr. Orloff has been cast on Doctor Conrad Jekyll, one of his students, who has been sent the secrets of using ultrasound to […]
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