This post represents the 20th anniversary of this blog. When I started in in June. 2006 I had just relocated from an apartment in the city to a 100 year old house in a rural area. I had just finished a series of interviews with Jess Franco and wanted to have a place where I could regularly discuss his filmograph, or rather my evolving perception of his massive output. I want to express my thanks and appreciation to my followers and their valuded feedback in the comments section. Hopefully we'll have another 20 years here if the internet still exists in the age of AI and I can make it to the age of 95.
The exotic universe of Fu Manchu holds a continuing fascination in the Franco multiverse. Wether it's the films, both Franco's and other director's approach to the character, or Franco's own deep dedication to representing the exoticism of that world, which spans a 50 year period, from 1967 to his 21st century digital period. But we have to loop back to his youthful obsession with the 1930s, 40s and 50s serials, films, magazines, novels and images based on the works of Sax Rohmer. The director himself speaks of his delight with that world and the formats in which is was presented to the public. He talks about how happy he was while directing his first Fu Manchu film in later 1967 for producer Harry Alan Towers, who wrote the script for the project. After the paradigm shift which the success of his 1967 NECRONOMICON (Succubus) had imposed on him he had found a way to become a commerical director making an entertainment for an international audience, rather than having to continue to make comprosed films within the barriers of Francisco Franco censorship which had imprisoned him for the first years of his career.
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