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I don’t want to alarm you, but something very sinister is going on here… teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate

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Identikit (AKA The Driver's Seat) (1974)

Directed by #GiuseppePatroniGriffi
Starring by #ElizabethTaylor #IanBannen #GuidoMannari
#MonaWashbourne #LuigiSquarzina #MaxenceMailfort #AndyWarhol

Cinematography by #VittorioStoraro
Music by #FrancoMannino

#Identikit #TheDriversSeat #Cinemaitaliano

06.03.2026 13:48 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Takashi Ishii's ethereal grunge noir A NIGHT IN NUDE (1993) stages intimacy as speculative investment, each character attempting to leverage another—yet every act of trust yields inescapable emotional debt with reinvention fantasies central to Japan’s bubble ethos untenably fluid.

05.03.2026 16:31 👍 35 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

A perfect film 🧑‍🍳 💋

03.03.2026 17:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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All the pain and torture that I went through
All makes sense to me now, I was dying for you

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988)
A Night in Nude (1993)

#TakashiIshii #sidebyside #Nami+#Muraki 💔

03.03.2026 17:35 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My favorite improper use of an umbrella coming at ya

02.03.2026 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nothing is ever black & white in Takashi Ishii's cinematic universe—so retribution is the least important aspect of melodically atonal revenge noir ALONE IN THE NIGHT (1994) wherein a quasi Orpheus interposed between violence fetish & love leads personified pain out of an autogenic hell.

02.03.2026 16:52 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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#NowWatching LOVE HOTEL (1985), Shinji Sōmai #filmsky #Nikkatsu #TakashiIshii

01.03.2026 19:56 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mabuse’s drunk cousin no one acknowledges at reunions gets caught stealing shots in Franco’s zero f*cks given DR. M SCHLÄGT ZU (1972), a spatially spontaneous maybe coastal maybe border town inept cowpoke hunts panther dancer nabbing sad FrankenKong krimi mid quickie with giallo. #FrancoFebruary

28.02.2026 19:21 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A master at utilizing genre against itself, in NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND DESIRES (1983) Franco distills melodrama to its purest visual ecliptics, a threadbare plot heavy with subtextual agony mesmerically dislocated from logic by protracted editing, askew angles & otherworldly sound design. #FrancoFriday

06.12.2024 18:39 👍 56 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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Soledad Miranda in THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1971), Jesús Franco

#SoledadMiranda #JessFranco #EdgarWallace #CCC #FrancoFebruary

26.02.2026 18:26 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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One of the last krimi for CCC, Franco’s DER TODESRÄCHER VON SOHO (1972) veers more expressionistic camp than dirty “London,” finagling fringe POV through a use of roving camera & casual lack of narrative coherence to form palatable pulp—even if it packs a carryall instead of a punch. #FrancoFebruary

25.02.2026 18:29 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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"I think films have maintained the structure of novels. I, who have always admired Julio Camba, thought it would be possible to make a film that dealt with diverse themes, which could be linked by the person narrating them. That's how the idea for We Are Eighteen was born."—Jess Franco ❤️

24.02.2026 18:09 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Predating quasi-contemporaneous Nouvelle Vague roadtrips such as Pierrot le Fou, the ladies of frothy Franco first TENEMOS 18 AÑOS (1959) are never decorative extensions of masculine plotting—but catalytic constructors who drive their narrative through genres at high speed. #FrancoFebruary

24.02.2026 18:09 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973), Jesús Franco
Un Rêve Plus Long Que la Nuit (1976), Niki de Saint Phalle

#sidebyside #phantasmagoria #queensofnight #filmsky

21.02.2026 17:27 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Like salt in your champagne, Franco's WOMEN IN CELLBLOCK 9 (1977) flattens the senses with icy, sustained Sadean torment crescendoing in perfunctory bleakness diametrically opposed to a discernible authorial preference for dwelling upon halcyon interludes amidst the forêt vierge. #FrancoFriday

20.02.2026 17:03 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Glitter on the mattress

19.02.2026 19:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Franco’s LOVE CAMP (1977)—aka Love Triangle Camp involving Ada Amazonian Tauler, real life murder suspect Wal Davis & (not) John Oates—benefits from more than group showers & nude slap fights, but also above market visuals with several instances of astonishing perspective camerawork. #FrancoFebruary

19.02.2026 18:10 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Lina Romay in DIE MARQUISE VON SADE aka Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1975), dir. Jesús Franco

#LinaRomay (June 25, 1954–February 15, 2012) 🩷

15.02.2025 21:26 👍 38 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Franco’s lugubrious burlesque HOUSE OF LOST WOMEN (1982) centers its farcically self-aware soap opera of perversity on the oddly poignant antics of a stir-crazy family led by an inveterate mythomaniac actor whose career is deader than Shakespeare’s proverbial doornail. #FrancoFriday

13.02.2026 19:09 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Same. She’s so amazing.
Def in my top five for sure. 🤍

12.02.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Emma Cohen as Ana in Al otro lado del espejo (1973) aka THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR, dir. Jesús Franco 🪞📽️

#EmmaCohen #JessFranco #FrancoFebruary #filmsky

12.02.2026 18:04 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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The answer to has anyone been cuter? Blessed few. Lina would podium.❤️

10.02.2026 18:30 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Franco's slyly ironic The Most Dangerous Game variant LA COMTESSE PERVERSE (1973) has an undeniable breezy kineticism, squeezing erotically drenched dread out of every frame while giving low rent sleaze an ultra-modern overhaul in Xanadú's mind melting atmos. #FrancoFebruary

10.02.2026 18:08 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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While LORNA THE EXORCIST (1974) invites comparison to Rosemary’s Baby—in both cases a woman’s womb is mortgaged by her spouse for his lucrative solvency—Franco’s heretical symphony rejects this gendered economy, climaxing in a bloody reclamation of bartered autonomy. #FrancoFebruary

09.02.2026 16:30 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Radiating from a Robert de Nesle nucleus of avaricious intent & more abused upon release than the tortured nuns of its environs, Franco's popedelic witchfinder-ploitation LES DEMONS (1973) is a fascinatingly odd potage of his own Bloody Judge with The Devils & a dash of de Sade. #FrancoFebruary

07.02.2026 18:42 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Lurking within the same rinky-dink tax shelter as Nightmares Come at Night, it's perhaps best placed between Dracula & The Other Side of the Mirror as the purest synthesis of Franco's revenant themes of dark absurdity, misfits in isolation, surrender to seduction & haunted geography.

06.02.2026 17:16 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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With the baleful poésie of a gothic ode, Franco’s temporal vacuum A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD (1973) exemplifies the beguiling pull not of carnal vitality but of depression, a dark destiny innocently accepted as symbolic submersion in an ecosystem of shadows. #FrancoFriday

06.02.2026 17:16 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

It sure is

06.02.2026 00:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I feel like a lot of people suffer from this affliction

03.02.2026 19:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mildred Pierce (1945), Michael Curtiz
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The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), Jesus Franco

#sidebyside #Noir #FrancoFebruary

03.02.2026 17:58 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0