Peformance Art: the horror of alien invasion by the silver skinned beings from the planet Goyas who need women to populate their dying world, "From dust to childbirth in 9 seconds."
Upon awakening the nightmare becomes a reality, but it's all just a film... or is it?
Jess Franco, Robert Foster, Lynn Anderson and Tony Skios pretend to play cards as they plot sexual torture to learn the whereabouts of the plans for the submarine in the film-within-the-film. But it's all just a dream within a nightmare as they await a Close Encounter of the Third Kind in Jess Franco's cyclical film, a blend of THE MYSTERIANS, MARS NEEDS WOMEN and Luis Bunuel's THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY. Are you ready for it...?
This is a film which defies conventional synopsis and criticism but does invite amused speculation. Remember, it's a comedy. But Jess Franco's comedy is always self referential and deeply encoded. What follows below is a structural breakdown of the main elements which could be endlessly recycled:
Prod: Joaquin Dominguez Triton P.C. Madrid
Direccion: Jess Franco
A glittering mirrored ball overlooking the mirrored stage area:
THE SHOW: "Pito 1, Pito 2, Pito 3...begin system production acceleration."
BACKSTAGE: the performers.
Take #1
Take #2
MEET ROSALINDA: the producer's girlfriend
HOTEL MONACO: Flanagan bastardo!
EUROPA PARK: On the riverboat-Jess passes; the nude Argentinians; torture.
"The plans for the submarine, stupid!"
TALKING FUNNY
WAKING UP: "They're fucking!"
The Director explains.
ACTION: Group sex.
GROUP MARRIAGE: the foursome in bed together read Spanish comic books.
ROSALINDA FAKES AN ORGASM
CAFE DE PARIS: Ice cream!
MORE SEX: Buenas Noches
THE DIRECTOR IN THE MIRROR [Jess Franco zooms in on himself operating the telezoom]
VIDEO: Puta! "Women are lips. Just two pairs of lips."
THE TOAST
CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Puta!
THE SECRET SOCIETY: Cucfat! The ritual-sacrifice of the Puta
WAKING UP: Lina's Masturbation. "It's all an illusion."
Antonio and Lina pick up Rosalinda.
ALIEN ABDUCTION
THE SHOW: Aboard the Spaceship. "Begin production acceleration." Applause.
Deposito Legal: M-10-697-81
(c) 2008, Robert Monell
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