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This review is for Francos cut, also known as Christina, Princess of Eroticism.
As a filmmaker, Jess Franco worked at a feverish pace, producing around 150 films which ranged from fascinating works of eroticism and surrealism, to banal pieces of forgettable tripe. His best films, A Virgin Among the Living Dead included, and maybe even more than any other, exist somewhere in the space between logic and reality. They're like disembodied spirits, or the last faint remnants of a dream…
Sublime atmosphere crashing against walls of shrieking sapphic ecstasy. Female sexuality becoming Satanic decadence. Thunderstorms and torrents of blood invoking Belphegor, Beelzebub, and Astaroth. Infernos rage, sparked by Alucarda and Justine's shared desire. Layers of subtext draped like burial shrouds across writhing lesbianic corpses. Alucarda, you are perfection.
Celtic cross tattoos Domestic assault charges pending Unemployment checks in the mail Condoms in their chain wallet 6 monster energy cans on the floor of their shitbox car A blue lives matter Punisher sticker on their shitbox car A cousin who sells really shitty weed
I absolutely live for shit like this! Low budget regional filmmaking with some of the best homegrown gore effects ever put to video. The Nightbeast himself is a marvel of creature design and bad tailoring. Every human character in this sleazoid odyssey is dumber than the last, making the most idiotic decisions, and spouting half baked dialogue with about as much personality as a wooden shoe. It's all done with so much love and dedication to the craft, you can't help but relish every moment.
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