"I want action!" Jess Franco in DR M SCHLAGT ZU Just as THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU (1968) was pretty much the final cinema destinatio...

The Severin Films site now reports that both THE SEXUAL STORY OF O and THE INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE will be released on April 24th...

Born in Chaco, Argentina in 1937, today is the 70th birthday of Hugo Blanco, probably best known to Jess Franco fans as Andros, the radio co...

No, this isn't an image of Caroline Munro from Jess Franco's FACELESS (1988), but I just love this picture of her. Everyone has thei...

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know that the late, great Bruno Nicolai is my favorite film composer, and not just because of h...

Yes, that's Jess Franco's image as the mad slasher from his 1979 film EL SADICO DE NOTRE DAME adorning this WIZARD Video cover of Ma...

The long lived (b. 1912) and prolific producer's death was reported by his family today. A silent partner on the international coproduct...

My favorite US video cover has to be Wizard's big old Virgin Among The Living Dead. I can't believe that Eurocine could patch in Sim...

We're not talking DVD cover art here, but considering the vintage video box art which decorated the first Jess Franco home video release...

Here's a vintage advert for a Commonwealth United Triple Sex-Triple Shock-Triple Feature! This fits right in with our recent considerat...

Who is Luc Moullet? Why did I once drive over 500 miles to see one of his films in the mid 1970s? Why is he almost totally unknown in the US...

It looks like there will be a new Jess Franco title appearing in 2007, but there won't be any more new Robert Altman films... The first ...

During the last month of 2006 we've been blogging our Jess Franco Best lists, and now here are my favorite JF moments/scenes, as origina...

Here are a few more DVDs I enjoyed in 2006: GOJIRA [Classic Media]: Two disc set containing excellent transfers of the first, and still best...

Uncle Jess consults his Holiday prayer beads... Here's wishing everyone a safe and peaceful Holiday season. Many thanks to the readers o...

I'm not including BU's SUCCUBUS or their RED LIPS SE as among the year's best DVDs simply because they contain only the cut US E...

He appears as an agent interrogating one of the ROBOTS in Jess Franco's CARTES SUR TABLE (1966); this busy Spanish actor (over 80 films)...

But what films are they from?! Ideal for mavericks who proceed outside designated modes of production and distribution Digital Video has a ...

This is the BEST DVD of 2006, perhaps the grandest DVD presentation ever given to any single film. No one deserves it more than Orson Welles...

My favorite DVD's of 2006: Jess Franco DVDs; Franco-related DVD presentations; non-Franco DVD's (to illustrate that I do have other ...

The recently released Italian CD of Bruno Nicolai's memorably outre score for Jess Franco's A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD is now li...

My BEST list: I like Jess Franco's approach of depaysement effect and inorganic taste. It was particularly supposed for the beginning o...

Hello! My friend David Z. told me about your blog and that you're looking for other people to post their top ten Franco lists. Here are...

Hi Robert, here are my favorite scenes in chronological order. Most of them are musical scenes, since I think Franco is both a filmmaker ...

Ten...such a large number for some, but so small for Jess! My list would go like this... until the next time I see a variant I haven...

Video Watchdog Tim Lucas has not only sent his Jess Franco 10 Best list but included some of his favorite moments/scenes from Franco's 5...

Of the ten lists I have posted so far the film that gets the most mentions is VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD, appearing on 7 out of the 10 lis...

Thanks to Estevao, a Jess Franco fan from Brazil, for his list: Estevão wrote... i'm brazilian. can i send my top 10 too? Venus in Furs ...

From : Alex Mendíbil This is my top ten for today (no particular order)... VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD LORNA THE EXORCIST LA COMTESSE PERVE...

Trying to pick my ten best Franco list is not unlike trying to choose your favorite children- each has its own charm. For today, here is my ...

I'm a huge fan of Franco's early black and white horrors, so my best list reflects this: DR. ORLOFF'S MONSTER THE SADISTIC BARON...

Frederick Durand: "Great idea. Here's my 10 best : When Robert asked me to send my 10 best Franco films, I thought it was a great i...

In order of preference: SNAKEWOMAN LES POSSEDEES DU DIABLE EUGENIE, HISTORIA DE UNA PERVERSION AL OTRO LADO DEL ESPEJO A VIRGIN AMONG THE L...

Thanks to everyone who has posted or sent in a Jess Franco 10 Best list. Here's one from Greg Hillabrand, a cult video collector from Gl...

Here are my 10 favorite Jess Franco films. I would like to know what readers of this blog consider their personal favorites. It's all s...

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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...