Jess Franco • Spain • 1973 • An erotic, dreamlike husband-and-wife collaboration.
Franco’s highest-regarded collaboration with his wife, Lina Romay, Female Vampire follows the mysterious Countess Irina Karlstein, a beautiful vampiress who feeds on victims at their moments of sexual climax. Because she destroys those whose essence she consumes, Irina is doomed to a life of solitude, wandering through the Western Coast of Europe in a dreamlike state, shrouded in a lush musical score by Daniel White.
Jess Franco • France • 1970 • A sultry evolution of Franco's cinema.
A sultry dancer falls under the hypnotic control of the sinister blonde Cynthia and begins to suffer terrifying hallucinations, from which not even a gifted psychiatrist can save her. Meanwhile, a pair of jewel thieves hide out...
Jess Franco • Spain-Autralia-France • 1964 • The film that launched a cult career.
Generally considered the first horror film produced in Spain, The Awful Dr. Orloff launched the career of cult cinema's most colorful figure: Jess Franco. Cloaking the story in the visual style of the British got...
Jean Rollin • France • 1974 • A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge.
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, The Demoniacs follows a band of "wreckers" who lure a ship into coastal waters, then plunder the remains. They rape and murder two young sisters who managed to survive the wreck—these gho...
