Bruno Nicolai is perhaps our favorite composer of movie soundtracks for European genre films of the 1960's and 1970s, from his charming ...

Working as a mostly uncovered undercover agent for a US Senator (Olivier Mathot), Lina Romay takes time out from her job as a stripper in a...

Alex Z., a regular reader and contributor to this blog has kindly provided some very interesting excerpts from his 1993 interview with the l...

Inside a spacecraft from the planet Argoyos, the "audience" applauds a live sex show featuring Lina Romay getting impregnated by ...

Uncle Jess enjoys a cigarette and confers with other cast members of the film-within-a-film in his wild and crazy EL SEXO ESTA LOCO, which i...

Jack Taylor (background-left) checks out Lorna's transgressive act in Lisbon... Or is it Berlin? Time and place are as shifty as Identit...

The seductive ballerina in Jess Franco's first horror film GRITOS EN LA NOCHE (1961) was born 66 years ago today. Franco also cast the ...

In Gdansk/Danzig, Poland. The rest is, as they say, history. But what a history! Some say he was mad! Crazy like a fox may be more like it ...

    One of Jess Franco's key films in the rather obscure 1973 production, AL OTRO LADO DEL ESPEJO, a harrowing psychodrama of the down...

  Played a rather important role in the career of Jess Franco and in the history of Spanish Horror.   Who is he?

The Mask of Fu Manchu Having just seen Boris Karloff as Dr. Fu Manchu in the new, must-have Warner Brothers 6 movie HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS OF ...

In what Jess Franco film is someone murdered in Room 13?    If you answer correctly by 11:PM EDT OCT 13th there will be a prize mailed to ...

  Every so often we'll digress from the topic of Jess Franco to consider other cinematic wonderments, like Dahlia Lavi, who was born 66...

  Having been dismayed by the most recent effort of Brian DePalma (sometimes referred to as "the American Argento") we managed t...

As I watched Brian DePalma's maddening THE BLACK DAHLIA last night I kept wishing I was watching George Marshall's 1947 THE BLUE DA...

Jess Franco's iconoclastic blending of jet black comedy, commentary on the BLIND DEAD series, uncredited adaptation of the tales of Gust...

  "I'm an unspeakable dream. I'm everything that's forbidden, that's shameful...a black woman with undefined sexuality...

We've waited for over twenty years for decent home video releases of MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD and MACUMBA SEXUAL,  Jess Franco's ...

  I don't know where Renato Polselli is right at this moment, but I have the feeling he's having a laugh at the world he left behin...

Nacimiento: 1895  ( Chihuahua, M?xico ) Fallecimiento: 1978  ( M?xico D.F., M?xico )               We have a correct answer for our ...

  From Manga DVD: Spain. This 1979 Spanish-Portuguese coproduction, a gorgeously lensed Sadean melodrama, is finally available on DVD. Thi...

COMMENTARY BY ROBERT MONELL: My favorite Spanish Dracula film, Javier Aguirre's EL GRAN AMOR DEL CONDE DRACULA (1972)in my opinion bea...

Louis (Deke) Heyward AIP's DESADE, which I saw at the local Adult theater THE RIVIERA circa 1969 is a film I wish that Deke Heyward ha...

  Absurd, grotesque and a total put-on this is Franco's commentary on sexual hypicrosy, specifically related to the Inquisition and t...

    Most Eurogenre enthusiasts will remember him as Travis Anderson aka The Crimson Executioner in THE BLOODY PIT OF...

            Watching Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 minimalist noir DETOUR always reminds me of just how much can be done with so litt...

Alberto Dalbes is the madman behind Le Rayon Infernal in DANGER! DEATH RAY, one of the numerous Eurospy adventures he appeared in during th...

  The Nazi undead arise in the North African desert to attack a several groups seeking Hitler's gold. This Spanish version, LA TUMBA ...

3 FACES OF SUMURU: FUTURE WOMEN/THE GIRL FROM RIO/SUMURU 2     COMMENTARY BY ROBERT MONELL: THE GIRL FROM RIO was never theatri...

[ESP, PORT] ?palo de Fuego: Mercaderes del Sexo , 1980 Pr?ximamente DVD Cine , Varios Comedia , Comedia Espa?ola , Thriller Espa?ol 9,99...

COMMENTARY BY ROBERT MONELL: The white hot stripteases performed by the Countess Korody (Soledad Miranda) with a living "mannequin...

I was in Borders yesterday to purchase the new DVD of my favorite 1950's sci-fi film, THIS ISLAND EARTH. On my way to the checkout ...

Poster for the film. The first Harry Alan Towers produced SUMURU film was 1967's THE MILLION EYES OF SUMURU, released by AIP. It was...

Towers of London (Sumuru) Ltd. presented a German financed production featuring Sax Rohmer's creation and forming a trilogy (with Lin...

                  The female  FU-MANCHU created by Sax Rohmer was featured in a RADIO SERIAL, NOVELS and several feature FILMS . Th...

A favorite example of the 1960's Eurospy genre, this 1967 item casts Janine Reynaud, the star of Jess Franco's SUCCUBUS, as a sexy ...

Actor-Director Michel Lemoine appeared in the four Franco-related Aquila Film Enterprises coproductions of 1967: NECRONOMICON, ROTE LIPPEN...

  THE WORST CANNIBAL FILM EVER? IT COMES PRETTY CLOSE. ONE OF SEVERAL CANNIBAL FILMS PRODUCED BY EUROCINE IN 1980, THIS IS NOT A FRANCO ...

REVIEWED BY ROBERT MONELL [Thanks to Alex for finding this poster and to Mirek for technical assistance]: O77 INTRIGUE A LISBONNE (Fr); MIS...

aka ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS; JAMES CLINT SFIDA INTERPOL (Thanks to Adam Williams for the poster) Jess Franco's CARTES BOCA ARRIBA/CARTES...

NECRONOMICON was shot in the Fall of 1966 {many thanks to Ewe Huber for that information}, that's coming up on 40 years ago, and the ne...

                                                      Since we didn't have a poster of the ultra-bizarre 1968 Spanish western COMANCHE...