Severin Films have provided us with an official trailer for In the Land of Franco, a multi-part series on the various locations from Jess Franco's films hosted by author and critic Stephen Thrower.
This series will be released across the label's upcoming Franco Blu-ray releases in 2020. (See details about the first two releases below).
Synopsis: During the same period that he was making the certifiably insane INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE, SEXUAL STORY OF O and CRIES OF PLEASURE for Spain's Golden Films Internacional, Goya Award winner Jess Franco also wrote and directed this delirious hybrid of sexy caper comedy, EuroSpy suspense thriller, hard-boiled erotic noir, and depraved fetish shocker complete with jaw-dropping girl-on-girl violence. Jess' equally legendary partner/muse Lina Romay – here at her most lusciously uninhibited – stars with Antonio Mayans (CANNIBAL TERROR), Lorna Green (MACUMBA SEXUAL), Albino Graziani (MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) and even Jess himself in this "fast-moving and slyly humorous" (El Franconomicon) rarity, now scanned in 4k from the original negative with all-new Special Features.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
In The Land Of Franco Part 2: Stephen Thrower Tours Multiple Franco Locations in Portugal
When Donald Met Jess and Lina Part 2: Filmmaker Donald Farmer Interviews the Power Couple in 1993
The Night of Open Jess: Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of 'Murderous Passions & Flowers of Perversion – The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco'
Synopsis: Obscure even by hardcore Jess Franco fan standards, it remains the legendary writer/director's most daring work of his early '80s erotic shocker oeuvre: Inspired by Hitchcock's ROPE, Franco utilized long takes, minimal edits and his beloved Lina Romay at her most extreme for this de Sade-induced saga of violence, depravity and psychosexual mayhem among the amoral elite. Antonio Mayans (aka Robert Foster of DEVIL HUNTER and HOT NIGHTS OF LINDA), Rocío Freixas (THE SINISTER DR. ORLOFF) and Elisa Vela (aka Jasmina Bell of MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this fascinating Franco rarity from his Golden Films Internacional period, now featuring a 4k scan from the original negative and all-new Special Features.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
In The Land Of Franco Part 1: Stephen Thrower Tours Multiple Franco Locations in Portugal
When Donald Met Jess and Lina Part 1: Filmmaker Donald Farmer Interviews the Power Couple in 1993
Jess Franco's Golden Years: Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of 'Murderous Passions & Flowers of Perversion – The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco'