Post by aubrey on Jul 27, 2010 19:22:56 GMT
I put this on a couple of other boards but no one seems interested. I don't know why. Even if you don't like his films, Franco is at least interesting.
Anyway: here is the original post that I did:
I've just discovered these two - I'd seen Franco's films listed in horror dictionaries, and even seen one or two; but I didn't know that the woman who starred in most of his films also worked as his assistant and editor and writer and even co-director, and that they are still living together now. She was doing nude scenes well into her fifties, but sometimes didn't appear in the films at all, depending on whether or not an astonishingly pretty dark-haired woman was needed by the script.
The films...
Franco did all types of exploitation films - horror, porn, horror/porn, women in prison, porn remakes of US Tv programmes, weird erotic spy adventure films - well, not all sorts - pretty much just one or two sorts if you get down to it.
There are some stunningly inept passages - like a scene that was acted, not filmed, in slow motion, and not acted very well either - and a fair bit of the vaguely pretentious dialogue that you often get in translated horror films; but the films usually have a nice atmosphere of a decaying Europe, and a surrealistic feeling that comes from this, and from the dialogue: nothing seems real, and in a good way - it is hard to imagine these films actually being made, in the way that it is hard to imagine that some pieces of music were actually written and performed. Exploitation cinema at its greatest!
Here is an article about them both. It is probably best not to open this if someone can see over your shoulder, though.
(Lina Romay is a performing name; it was taken from an Actress of the 40's and 50's; though, rather sweetly, via a Tex Avery Droopy cartoon.)
Lina
Lina and Jess more recently
Anyway: here is the original post that I did:
I've just discovered these two - I'd seen Franco's films listed in horror dictionaries, and even seen one or two; but I didn't know that the woman who starred in most of his films also worked as his assistant and editor and writer and even co-director, and that they are still living together now. She was doing nude scenes well into her fifties, but sometimes didn't appear in the films at all, depending on whether or not an astonishingly pretty dark-haired woman was needed by the script.
The films...
Franco did all types of exploitation films - horror, porn, horror/porn, women in prison, porn remakes of US Tv programmes, weird erotic spy adventure films - well, not all sorts - pretty much just one or two sorts if you get down to it.
There are some stunningly inept passages - like a scene that was acted, not filmed, in slow motion, and not acted very well either - and a fair bit of the vaguely pretentious dialogue that you often get in translated horror films; but the films usually have a nice atmosphere of a decaying Europe, and a surrealistic feeling that comes from this, and from the dialogue: nothing seems real, and in a good way - it is hard to imagine these films actually being made, in the way that it is hard to imagine that some pieces of music were actually written and performed. Exploitation cinema at its greatest!
Here is an article about them both. It is probably best not to open this if someone can see over your shoulder, though.
(Lina Romay is a performing name; it was taken from an Actress of the 40's and 50's; though, rather sweetly, via a Tex Avery Droopy cartoon.)
Lina
Lina and Jess more recently
How old are you lot?