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Mansion of the Living Dead [Blu-ray]
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Film Details
2.35:1
Cast and Creators
Jess Franco
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About the Film
One of the more infamous works of his Golden Films Internacional period, writer/director Jess Franco’s depraved subversion of raunchy comedy, erotic thriller and heretical horror has never popped off the screen like this: When four topless cocktail waitresses – led by Lina Romay (aka Candy Coster) at her most luscious – arrive at a deserted resort, they’ll unlock a perverse netherworld of lesbianism, sadism and unholy violation by a zombie religious sect inspired by de Ossorio’s BLIND DEAD series. Antonio Mayans (BLACK BOOTS, LEATHER WHIP), Mari Carmen Nieto (SEXUAL STORY OF O), Eva León (BAHIA BLANCA) and Albino Graziani (NIGHT OF OPEN SEX) co-star in “a fetishistic feast essential for the Francophile’s collection” (Sex Gore Mutants), now scanned in 2K from the original negative for the first time ever.
Special Features:
- Jess Franco: Heretic — Interview With Stephen Thrower, Author Of Flowers Of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema Of Jesús Franco
- The Mansion That Jess Built — Interviews With Director Jess Franco And Star Lina Romay
Disc Specs:
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Audio: Spanish Mono
- English Subtitles
- Run time: 93 mins
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About the Director
Jesús "Jess" Franco (1930–2013) directed between 180 and 200 films, a number so high that even film historians cannot agree on the exact total. He was a trained jazz musician and once worked as Orson Welles’s assistant on Chimes at Midnight. Franco brought an energetic, improvisational camera style to every genre he worked in, including horror, softcore erotica, spy thrillers, and combinations of all three. He often filmed these movies back-to-back, using the same sets and cast.
His breakout film, Gritos en la Noche (The Awful Dr. Orloff, 1962), was one of the first Spanish horror movies to get international distribution, released just as Spain’s censorship laws were starting to relax. After that, Franco became a regular in the European co-production scene, working with producers in France, Germany, and Portugal. He made films like Vampyros Lesbos and She Killed in Ecstasy, which combined lurid stories with a truly hypnotic visual style. He used hand-held zooms, jazz soundtracks, and often ignored traditional narrative logic, which put off critics but won over cult audiences years later.
Since Franco’s death, people have looked at his work differently. What at one time appeared sloppy now appears as a unique, dreamlike style, more like underground cinema than typical exploitation films. Because he made so many movies, he is also a good starting point for collectors, as nearly every major genre from that era appears in his filmography.
