You expect certain things from a Jess Franco Women in Prison movie. Barbed Wire Dolls pretty much delivers in that regard. There are long stretches where the camera zooms around aimlessly. There are long scenes of naked women being tortured. There’s a gratuitous Franco cameo. There’s a scene where a woman rubs her pussy with a cigarette ( Read more... )

Ann (Diana Lorys) is a sexy stripper who is suffering from a psychotic break and having terrible nightmares. Her lesbian lover Cynthia (Colette Jack) tries to get a kindly psychiatrist (Paul Muller) to look after her. They’re actually in cahoots and are trying to drive Ann to suicide so they can steal her money ( Read more... )

Rachel Sheppard is an author who writes a tell-all book about her corrupt Caribbean home country. She returns home for a book signing and almost immediately starts receiving death threats. Naturally, she refuses to leave and winds up being kidnapped and tortured by Lina Romay. Lina finds out Rachel used to be a government agent and she and her ( Read more... )

Jess Franco has made some bad movies in his time. Even die-hard Franco fans like me willingly (perhaps sometimes even gleefully) admit that. If you put all of Franco’s worst films into a barrel, Two Undercover Angels would probably settle pretty damn near the bottom of it ( Read more... )

We lost the great Christopher Lee this month and as a way to honor the legendary horror icon, I’m going to try to review some of Lee’s work I never got around to seeing. Lee was such a great actor that he could walk away from the worst movies more or less unscathed. He certainly made more than his share of bad ones with king of the schlock ( Read more... )

Justine (Romina Power) and her sister Juliet (Maria Rohm) lose their place at the convent and wind up on separate paths. While Juliet becomes a prostitute in a cathouse, Justine tries her luck as a servant girl. Eventually, she gets framed for a crime she didn’t commit and is sent to prison where she makes a daring escape alongside Mercedes ( Read more... )

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden is an unofficial sequel in the Ilsa series. It’s actually a sleazy Women in Prison movie directed by Jess Franco. Although Dyanne Thorne stars as the wicked warden, her name isn’t Ilsa. But despite not being a sequel in the truest sense, it’s still very much in the Ilsa vein ( Read more... )

You know those lab rats that get electrocuted for trying to grab a piece cheese, but they STILL go after the cheese, even after they’ve been shocked dozens of times? Well, if I’m a lab rat, then Jess Franco movies are my cheese. As shockingly awful as Franco’s sequel to The Million Eyes of Su-Muru is, Lord knows I’ll probably be dumb enough to ( Read more... )

From his Hammer days to his recent Hollywood resurgence, Christopher Lee has provided filmgoers with seven decades of badass awesomeness. Today we’ll look a three wildly different films featuring Lee. First up is probably his all-time worst ( Read more... )

The beautiful Lina Romay passed away a couple months back and I wanted to belatedly pay tribute to her by reviewing one of the many films she made with her husband, Jess Franco. If you are a fan of Romay, you’ll definitely want to check this one out. Not only does she give a great performance, but she’s also naked in it more often than not ( Read more... )