Jess Franco Blu-ray

[Ian Jane]

Coming later this year from Blue Underground.

In the tradition of Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik comes this swinging '60s action orgy as bisexual super-villain Sumitra (the luscious Shirley Eaton of Goldfinger and The Blood of Fu Manchu) launches a diabolical plan to enslave the male species with her army of lusty warrior women. But when Sumitra kidnaps a fugitive American playboy, she crosses a sadistic crime boss Coming 9/26/23 from Blue Underground.

(Academy Award winner George Sanders of All About Eve and Village of The Damned) and ignites a battle of the sexes that will bring Brazil to its knees in more ways than one. Get ready to experience director Jess Franco at his most erotic, exotic and bizarre. This is The Girl From Rio!

Richard Wyler (The Bounty Killer) and Maria Rohm (Eugenie, Justine) co-star in this kinky cult favorite (also known as Rio 70, Future Women and The Seven Secrets of Sumuru), packed with go-go boots, miniskirts and outrageous Jess Franco style. The Girl From Rio is now presented totally uncut and uncensored with all its eye-popping nudity, and lesbianism now fully restored in 4K.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
EXCLUSIVE NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE UNCENSORED CAMERA NEGATIVE
DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
NEW Audio Commentary with critics Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth
NEW Rocking in Rio - Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of "Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco"
NEW RiffTrax Edition – THE GIRL FROM RIO Riffed by Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett & Kevin Murphy
NEW Additional Scenes from German Version
Rolling in Rio – Interviews with Director Jess Franco, Producer Harry Alan Towers and Star Shirley Eaton
Trim Reel
Poster & Still Gallery
Audio: English (1.0 DTS-HD MA)
Subtitles: English SDH, Français, Español
Limited Edition embossed slipcover (First Pressing Only)
REGION-FREE

[BW Haggar]

I feel like I need to pick these up in order to get the latest 'In The Land of Franco' installments, but, I have no money and don't feel a desperate need to upgrade/urgently re-watch either of these films, so... ho-hum?

(Incidentally, at some point in the future, when shifting blu-rays is less of an immediate concern, it would be so great if Severin and Stephen Thrower were to think about editing those featurettes together into some kind of feature length documentary or longer / more widely available series; learning about how the spirit of Franco haunts otherwise innocuous stretches of the Southern European coastline, and hearing reminiscences from his surviving collaborators who still live in the area, is incredibly fascinating to me... I've enjoyed them more than the accompanying films in some cases.)

[Ian Jane]

From Severin's FB page:

**** SUMMER SALE TITLE REVEAL #3 & 4****

THE BLU-RAY PREMIERES OF:

THE INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE

“A SALACIOUS WORK OF FETISHISTIC SEXUALITY…This raunchy, erotically charged peep show reveals yet another side of Jess Franco.” SexGoreMutants

When Golden Films Internacional requested he make an alluring Emmanuelle film, writer/director Jess Franco instead held a dark mirror to the series’ sunny fantasies of sexual freedom: When a violent assault upends her uninhibited lifestyle, Emmanuelle (beautiful Muriel Montossé of Franco’s CECILIA and DEVIL HUNTER) chooses to pursue a perverse odyssey of machismo, repression and erotic degradation. Familiar ‘80s Franco faces and bodies including Carmen Carrión (SEXUAL STORY OF O), Antonio Mayans (BAHIA BLANCA), Asunción Calero (THE HOUSE OF LOST WOMEN) and Tony Skios (NIGHT OF OPEN SEX) co-star in this “sure-fire treasure for Franco fans” (SexGoreMutants) – also known as EMMANUELLE EXPOSED – presented in HD for the first time ever with all-new Special Features.

THE SEXUAL STORY OF O

“A BREATHTAKING EROTIC NIGHTMARE…A beautiful film about ugly events, superior to most of Franco’s ‘80s sex-a-thons.” I’m In A Jess Franco State Of Mind

With a crew of three, cast of five and minimal budget from Golden Films Internacional, writer/director Jess Franco combined elements of his own COUNTESS PERVERSE and EUGENIE with the extremes of de Sade for a startling tale of aristocratic depravity: When a vacationing nymphet (Alicia Príncipe of NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND DESIRES) is seduced by an amoral couple, she’ll be sold into a nightmare of desire, degeneracy and a climax of carnal torment that remains one of the most disturbing sequences in Uncle Jess’ entire ‘80s oeuvre. Carmen Carrión (THE HOUSE OF LOST WOMEN), Mauro Rivera (BLACK CANDLES) and Mari Carmen Nieto (MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this “beautifully decadent dream of corruption” (SexGoreMutants), now presented in HD for the first time ever with all-new Special Features.

[fatboyslim142]

Coming from Full Moon so they'll probably fuck this release up.

[Ian Jane]

Coming 5/29/23 from 88 Films.

[fatboyslim142]

Coming later this year from Blue Underground.

I'm surprised they've NOT done a double bill with the first one like they did on BD.

[Ian Jane]

Coming later this year from Blue Underground.

[fatboyslim142]

Thanks.

[Ian Jane]

Which film is this?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065569/

[fatboyslim142]

Looks like 88 Films is working on a Blu-ray release of Jess Franco's Dracula.

Which film is this?

[Ian Jane]

Looks like 88 Films is working on a Blu-ray release of Jess Franco's Dracula.

[agent999]

Franco should've stayed away from intentional comedy.

[Ian Jane]

Severin Films just announced this as a Black Friday title coming next month.

now scanned in 2K from the original negative recently discovered in a Bilbao seminary.
Special Features for SEX IS CRAZY:
*Jess Is Crazy – Interview With Jess Franco Expert Dr. Álex Mendíbil
*Franco/Godard – Interview With Stephen Thrower, Author Of Flowers Of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema Of Jesús Franco
*In The Land Of Franco Part 7
Disc Specs for SEX IS CRAZY:
*Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
*Audio: Spanish Mono
*Subtitles: English
*Region: All

[Ian Jane]

From the Blue Underground FB page:

"Our second Jess Franco 4K UHD upgrade is MARQUIS DE SADE'S PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOUDOIR (aka EUGENIE), from a BRAND-NEW 4K Dolby Vision HDR master! Limited Edition slipcover with alternate title is pictured on the left; wrap artwork is on the right. New Extras are in progress. Full details and release date will be announced soon..."

[BW Haggar]

I'm definitely on-board for an upgrade of 'The Girl From Rio', but please, fortheloveofgod, where are 'Venus in Furs' and 'Necronomicon', already..?