JESS FRANCO COLLECTION

Franco's most exploitive film with numerous sadistic scenes of torture and perversion. A true exploitation masterpiece that only a director like Franco could make. Maria (Lina Romay) is sentenced to prison for life for killing her father that attempted to assault. She is sent to a special section of the jail know for it's cruel and sadistic treatment of prisoners. The wardress (Monica Swinn) is a sadistic lesbian who knows no mercy and takes pleasure in her job. Maria seduces a male nurse who she eventually kills in order to spring an escape from the hellhole. A must for all fans of sadistic WIP films and for Jess Franco addicts. Also stars Franco regulars Paul Muller, Martine Stedilm and Eric Falk.

DVD FEATURES

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Televisions

Languages: English, German, French, Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) + extras

The rich but lonely Doriana Grey (Lina Romay) lives in an old castle together with her servant Ziros. An American reporter (Monica Swinn) visits her to write an article which might also help Doriana uncover a mysterious secret buried in her past. The secret turns out to be a twin sister who is hidden in a psychiatric hospital, run by the mysterious Dr. Orloff. Born as Siamese twins but separated after birth, Doriana suffered some sort of sexual trauma, while her sister’s became mentally defective. Doriana is a frigid sex vampire, telepathically connected to her twin sister who actually experiences the orgasms which elude Doriana. Ziros supplies Doriana with victims.........

DVD FEATURES

Exclusive Unrated 78 min Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen (1.85:1) Version

English, German and French 2.0 Dolby Digital Audio

+ extras

Susan (Ada Tauler), the wife of the British consul in Haiti, arrives to live with her husband Jack (Jack Taylor) whom she hasn’t seen for years. She is welcomed by Inès (Vicky Adams), a strange lesbian who serves as a sort of housekeeper. She also gets to know Olga (Karine Gambier), a foul-mouthed and obviously nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack’s sister. Jack seems to have an incestuous relationship with his sister. Susan is troubled by strange nightmares about voodoo ceremonies. After one such nightmare, in which she dreams she has killed an acquaintance of her husband, she learns that the man has really been killed! There are other nightmares, murders and voodoo dolls…

DVD FEATURES

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Television

English, German, & French Dolby Digital 2.0 Audio Options

International Theatrical Trailer, Cast & Crew Biographies

A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere (Karine Gambier) is caught by the war-den of a women’s prison, located some-where in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal the secrets of their organization or the names of their collaborators in the cities, so they are handed over to Dr. Costa (Howard Vernon) who, after four years inactivity in Europe, is delighted to be able to practice his torture techniques once more......

DVD FEATURES

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Television

English & German (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) Audio Options

International Theatrical Trailer, Cast & Crew Biographies, Extensive Collection of Production Stills, Trailer Gallery, Original-Poster Gallery, DVD

Story of 16 year old Maria (Susan Hemingway) who is forced to enter into a cloister because Father Victor (William Berger) catches her fooling around with her boyfriend and forces her mother to give her up or the child will be condemned to hell. While in the cloister, Maria is forced to demonstrate her obedience by performing self-demeaning acts and is tortured and beaten....all to the delight of Father Victor and the Mother Superior. She begins to realize that the nuns give themselves to the Devil in unrestrained satanic orgies. In desperation Maria writes a love letter to God and throws it out the window of her cell.

DVD FEATURES

Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) Version

English, German, Spanish, Italian, French Dolby Digital 2.0 Audio Options

Interviews with Jess Franco, Erwin Dietrich Lina Romay and Herbert Fux

Stills and Behind the Scenes Photos + extras

A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and brought to a jungle brothel where they are forced to work as prostitutes for the soldiers. Those who refuse to cooperate are decapitated by the cruel, sadistic wardress (Nanda Van Bergen) of the camp, who is privately interested in some of the women herself.

One day guerrilla leader Gino da Guerra (Wal Davies), who came up with the idea of opening the brothel for his soldiers, visits the place in search of some fun with one of the “prisoners” (Ada Tauler). However he falls in love with her and tries to help her to escape. But he didn’t take into account the sadistic wardress who has also developed an interest in the girl…

DVD FEATURES

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Television

English, German & French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)

International Theatrical Trailer, Cast & Crew Biographies + more extras

Greta del Pino (Dyanne Thorne) is the sadistic warden of a female concentration camp thinly disguised as an asylum, somewhere in South America. This terrible place is the last destination of the undesirable elements in an obviously fascist state. Protected by the government, Greta is unassailable and has absolute power over the lives of her prisoners. A girl almost manages to escape, but at the last moment her pursuers catch her on the porch of the humanitarian Dr. Arcos, who is disturbed by the obvious indifference for the life of the young woman displayed by Greta and her henchmen. Dr. Arcos brings the case to a human rights organization, which can see no way of getting through the red-tape of protection and corruption......

DVD FEATURES

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Televisions

Languages: English, German, French, Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) + more

Region 0 NTSC - New Swiss Import of Jess Franco's classic

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Superb adaptation by Jesus Franco with a great performance by Klaus Kinski... Also keep an eye out for Lina Romay!

DVD Features

New, completely uncensored anamorphic Letterbox transfer (1.85:1) directly from the reconstructed original negative, supervised by cinematographer Peter Baumgartner, enhanced for widescreen TVs

Integral unrated director's cut version

Theatrical trailers

Lost scene never before seen in theaters and on video

Running commentary6 by producer Erwin C. Dietrich

2 exclusive "making of" featurettes with interviews, location stills, behind-the-scenes photos and historical documents Soundtracks: Dolby Digital 2.0 English, German, Italian, French (remixed from the original master tapes) Subtitles: Finnish, Dutch, Greek NTSC Region Free Part of 'The Official Jess Franco Collection' from Erwin C. Dietrich

Besides running a highly popular nightclub cum brothel, Blue Rita works for several crime organizations and secret services. Having once been heavily tortured, Rita is frigid and she tries to restore her sexual desires with a chemical injected. She hates men and she and her clan of lesbian slaves show no mercy for the politicians, spies or others who venture into Rita's deadly web.

After making love to one of her girls in a special "lust room", some men are knocked out with gas and imprisoned in a smoke cage. There they must face Rita's special torture treatment meant to force them to surrender secret information and money............

DVD FEATURES:

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Television

English, German & French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) Audio

Collection of Interviews, Featurette about the Restoration of the Film, International Theatrical Trailer + more

Another great release in the Jess Franco Collection from Erwin C. Dietrich. 2 sisters (Pamela Stanford and Karine Gambier) live in a remote country estate, but one sister is a slave to the other! Milly (Gambier) is an incurable nymphomaniac whose ever-increasing urges demand constant satisfaction. Her physician, Dr. Barrios (Jack Taylor), realizes that she must have her desires fulfilled or else she may go mad and end up institutionalized. Nightly, her older sister Edna (Stanford), is forced to solicit men for Milly as prescribed by the Dr. Once the men are brought back to the estate they find themselves in a world of sex and depravity! Also stars Erwin Dietrich regular Eric Falk.

DVD FEATURES:

Exclusive Unrated Director's Cut Restored from the Original Negative and Archive Footage

Presented in its Original Theatrical Aspect Ratio, approximately 1.85:1

Enhanced for 16x9 Television

English, French, Spanish & German (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) International Theatrical Trailer, Cast & Crew Bios + more extras