Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Succubus 1968 - Jess Franco.

With an unusually fascinating protagonist, Succubus remains an enigmatic, erotically engaging Jess Franco classic. A darkly hypnotic delirium, bold, elegiac, and vividly photographed, Succubus delivers a veritable pandora's box of tantalizing exotica! Starring the ravishingly ribald redhead Janine Reynaud, surrealistic slap n' tickle was never manifested with quite the same panache as Succubus! A personal favourite, and I'd very much like my future wife to share my passion for this dazzling diorama of fleshly far-out sinema. The luminous Euro cult cast, eclectic score, picturesque Lisbon setting, and Franco's playful mise en scène has certainly lost none of its lustre. A heady cinematic feast to rival the very best psychodramas of Roman Polanski and Radley Metzger. 'In a furnace, In a fiery hell she will rot!' 'A devil who must swallow the living in the pursuit of her earthbound desires, but a devil who must devour the dead in pursuit of her hell-born lust! - 'The day for me only begins at night!'



 

 













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