I recently watched the vintage trailer for Luigi Scattini's 1970 Mondo-Satanism documentary WITCHCRAFT '70 and noted that it was sco...

One of the most important literary figures of the 20th Century, Alain Robbe-Grillet created a new form of fictional discourse, the "no...

Here's the cover for a Japanese DVD of DRACULA, PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN, which is included in the BEST OF JESS FRANCO boxset along with...

I finally caught up with the IMAGE DVD of Franco's minimalist monster-rally DRACULA CONTRA FRANKENSTEIN (onscreen title). This no-budget...

February 27 is the official release date for Jess Franco's EL CONDE DRACULA, but this will be the English language COUNT DRACULA. DARK S...

They should have hired Uncle Jess to play the role of Le Chiffre in the new CASINO ROYALE, that would have taken REAL imagination and guts....

Thanks to Uwe Huber for this image of another poster for the 1970 Jess Franco rarity, SEX CHARADE. Uwe confirms that Eurocine does indeed ...

Here's an ultrarare title from 1970, made on leftover time during the shoot of EUGENIE, with Soledad Miranda and Paul Muller. The estim...

If you have a serious interest in the films of Jess Franco then check out this massive Japanese site which is maintained by M. Kino, who has...

"I like gods... I know exactly how they feel," Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) exults in Jean-Luc Godard's LE MEPRIS (1963) as...

In the wake of the passing of Jack Palance, I thought I would take a look at some of his European films. A good place to start is the Italia...

Jack Palance (Vladimir Palanuik/Walter Jack Palance), one of my favorite actors, died today at the age of 87. All Jess Franco watchers will...

Many thanks to Uwe Huber for contributing this image [which hopefully will stay up here] of the poster prepared for the US theatrical releas...

In serious search of any adverts, posters, etc. with the MOTHERS OF AMERICA titling of Jess Franco's Harry Alan Towers 1968 production ...

Last night I visited with two of my favorite vampire hunters: Dr. Nietzche (Luigi Batzella/Paolo Solvay) in Roberto Mauri's THE SLAUGHTE...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130043067547 This "Jess Franco Collection Boxset" now up for auction on EBA...

Three images from Jess Franco DVD presentations which I never thought would have possible when I started ordering VHS dupes from Mail Order ...

The Sundance Channel will present the US Televison premiere of three Jess Franco films featuring the late Soledad Miranda (1943-1970) on Tue...

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...