“You are extremely ill. You have an illness that’s strange, unknown.”

My thoughts on Franco’s trance-inducing Shining Sex can be found here.

“I didn’t know that they had such silly things on TV.”

My review is 1980s El sexo esta loco can be found here.

“Who made the lists of the forbidden, who took the role of judgement?”

Normal service is resumed as we look at the first couple of films Franco made on his return to Spain here.

“The blood was all over the place. I can’t take it.”

After an extended break, a look at the three Franco films which became entangled in the video nasties net . . . here.

“You and your troop of lesbians were useful to us for a while.” 

My review of Das Fraunhaus / Blue Rita (1977) can be found here.

“It is the destiny of all beauty to be destroyed.”

My review of Franco’s mesmerising Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray can be found here.

“I’m a doll. A real doll.”

I haven’t forgotten about or given up on this blog. My circumstances simply changed and I’ve not been able to dedicate any resource to it.

My intention is to write an essay on the Women in Prison films Franco directed for Erwin Dietrich – specifically Barbed Wire Dolls, Wanda the Wicked Warden, Love Camp and Women in Cellblock 9 – and publish it this side of Christmas. I will then endeavour to get one more piece up over the festive period – most likely a review of either Doriana Grey or Blue Rita.

Updated to add, Barbed Wire Butchers can be found here.