Dr. Orloff’s Monster
Blu-ray
Redemption / Kino Lorber
1964 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 84 min. / El secreto del Dr. Orloff, Brides of Dr. Jekyll, Les maitresses du Dr. Jekyll / Street Date February 7, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Hugo Blanco, Agnès Spaak, Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, Luisa Sala, Perla Cristal, Magda Maldonado, Pepe Rubio, Pastor Serrador, Daniel Blumer, Manuel Guitián, Mer Casas.
Cinematography: Alfonso Nieva
Film Editor: Á Serrano
Original Music: Fernando García Morcillo, Daniel White
Written by: Jesús Franco, Nicole Guettard, A. Norévo
Produced by: Marius Lesoeur
Directed by Jesús Franco
Arguing the merits of Jesús Franco seems a blind alley to me. I know academic film writers that have seen dozens of his films and who assure me that they perceive an artist amid all the exploitation and pornography. Why not? I continue to see Franco as a fringe filmmaker of little talent and less interest. Keep anything up long enough and it...
Blu-ray
Redemption / Kino Lorber
1964 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 84 min. / El secreto del Dr. Orloff, Brides of Dr. Jekyll, Les maitresses du Dr. Jekyll / Street Date February 7, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Hugo Blanco, Agnès Spaak, Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, Luisa Sala, Perla Cristal, Magda Maldonado, Pepe Rubio, Pastor Serrador, Daniel Blumer, Manuel Guitián, Mer Casas.
Cinematography: Alfonso Nieva
Film Editor: Á Serrano
Original Music: Fernando García Morcillo, Daniel White
Written by: Jesús Franco, Nicole Guettard, A. Norévo
Produced by: Marius Lesoeur
Directed by Jesús Franco
Arguing the merits of Jesús Franco seems a blind alley to me. I know academic film writers that have seen dozens of his films and who assure me that they perceive an artist amid all the exploitation and pornography. Why not? I continue to see Franco as a fringe filmmaker of little talent and less interest. Keep anything up long enough and it...
- 1/28/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Melissa hopes to enjoy a splendid Christmas with her family, but ends up getting more than she bargained for in Jess Franco's Dr. Orloff's Monster, aka The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll. We have Blu-ray cover art and details on the special features for Redemption Films' 2K restoration of the 1964 film.
In January of 2017, Redemption Films will release Jess Franco's Dr. Orloff's Monster, aka The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll, on Blu-ray with the following special features (via Blu-ray.com) and cover art:
"New 2K Restoration/remaster Audio commentary by Tim Lucas And More..."
Synopsis (via Blu-ray.com): "Melissa, an attractive Austrian college student, travels to Holfen to spend the Christmas holidays at the castle of her uncle, Dr. Conrad Fisherman, but the mood she encounters there is hardly festive. Her uncle's behavior is cold and furtive, and her Aunt Ingrid is perpetually drunk, trying to forget the night...
In January of 2017, Redemption Films will release Jess Franco's Dr. Orloff's Monster, aka The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll, on Blu-ray with the following special features (via Blu-ray.com) and cover art:
"New 2K Restoration/remaster Audio commentary by Tim Lucas And More..."
Synopsis (via Blu-ray.com): "Melissa, an attractive Austrian college student, travels to Holfen to spend the Christmas holidays at the castle of her uncle, Dr. Conrad Fisherman, but the mood she encounters there is hardly festive. Her uncle's behavior is cold and furtive, and her Aunt Ingrid is perpetually drunk, trying to forget the night...
- 11/21/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Spanish director dies following a stroke: Best known for his nearly two hundred underground, "exploitation" films "I think I was born because my father and my mother had sex ... ." Nope, that has nothing to do with the anti-censorship lectured delivered by Oz the Great and Powerful and Interior. Leather Bar's James Franco online. The words above were uttered by another Franco, a Spaniard. No, not the foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing military ruler Francisco Franco, but multitasking filmmaker Jesús Franco, aka Jess Franco aka dozens of other aliases, including those in honor of jazz performers Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. His oeuvre included about 200 films, among them The White Slave, The Sexual History of O, Macumba Sexual, , Emmanuelle Exposed, Vampyros Lesbos, The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll, and White Cannibal Queen. The director died today in Malaga, a city in southern Spain, after suffering a stroke. According to reports, he had never truly...
- 4/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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