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Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013), also commonly known as Jess Franco, was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a highly prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. [1]
Jesús Franco (1930–2013) was a Spanish filmmaker. At a young age, Franco had a passion for comics and music, and followed his love of music, specifically jazz. [1] After his father found out about him working as a jazz musician, he enroled him a religious university in 1949.
The Awful Dr. Orloff was the first horror film directed by cult filmmaker Franco, and the first of many subsequent collaborations with Howard Vernon. Franco would reuse the Orloff and Morpho characters in many of his later horror films, such as Vampyros Lesbos, Revenge in the House of Usher, and Faceless.
Venus in Furs (1969 Franco film) A Virgin Among the Living Dead; W. Women in Cellblock 9
Marquis de Sade: Justine (Italian: Justine ovvero le disavventure della virtù, lit. 'Justine or the misadventures of virtue', also released as Deadly Sanctuary) [1] is a 1969 erotic period drama film directed by Jesús Franco, written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, and based on the 1791 novel Justine by the Marquis de Sade.
Franco appears as a servant to Professor Van Helsing (Herbert Lom), and though certainly literate, the film nevertheless fails as both horror and drama." [14] Brett Cullum of DVD Verdict wrote, "For curious Dracula fans, Jess Franco's Count Dracula is a neat find. It's a stellar cast working under a low budget, and it comes off entertaining if ...
From unprecedented starts (13-0) to unforeseen scandals (Wander Franco) to a smorgasbord of injuries, the last six months have consistently remained high on drama and low on drab. And in a sport ...
Faceless uses the same narrative as Franco's film The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) while changing the characters' names. [6] Franco had previously reused the story of the 1962 film in several other film projects, such as La venganza del Doctor Mabuse (1972) and Jack the Ripper (1976). [7] Faceless was shot between December 1987 and January 1988 in ...