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A sado-masochistic horror tale about a nightclub performer who tortures and kills couples, while the visions that plague her chip away at her grip on reality.
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Lorna (Janine Raynaud) puts on erotic S & M performances at nightclubs & then starts believing she is performing such acts in strange dreams - or is she acting them out in real life? Is she being manipulated by a mysterious conspiracy?
After the early Goth horror "Orloff" film, this is really where Jess Franco's career starts to get (briefly) interesting. "Succubus" begins like a rather tawdry old fashioned sexploitation movie, but quickly goes completely off the rails into 60s delirium. It has an intensity similar to "Eugenie: Journey Into Perversion". Lots of wild psychedelic fantasy scenes (lots of coloured filters!), freaky jazzy music, avant garde touches & funny sub-Godard "intellectual" dialogue. There's a great 60s party scene where the assorted eccentrics take their LSD sugar cubes and merrily regress into childhood abandon. The best scene is where Lorna makes love to & then murders another woman in a room full of mannequins - the bodies of the women & mannequins interchange in an extended sequence of frenzied editing. It's fairly obvious that Franco only made half a dozen or so movies worth watching - "Succubus" is certainly one of them. A decent DVD presentation too.
After the early Goth horror "Orloff" film, this is really where Jess Franco's career starts to get (briefly) interesting. "Succubus" begins like a rather tawdry old fashioned sexploitation movie, but quickly goes completely off the rails into 60s delirium. It has an intensity similar to "Eugenie: Journey Into Perversion". Lots of wild psychedelic fantasy scenes (lots of coloured filters!), freaky jazzy music, avant garde touches & funny sub-Godard "intellectual" dialogue. There's a great 60s party scene where the assorted eccentrics take their LSD sugar cubes and merrily regress into childhood abandon. The best scene is where Lorna makes love to & then murders another woman in a room full of mannequins - the bodies of the women & mannequins interchange in an extended sequence of frenzied editing. It's fairly obvious that Franco only made half a dozen or so movies worth watching - "Succubus" is certainly one of them. A decent DVD presentation too.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Ralf Bader
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's a shame I didn't do some research on this before:
original feature length: 91 mts (ca 88 mts pal)
original aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
original language: german? spanish?
This edition is presented in 1.33:1 and even states this was the original aspect ratio, while watching the film you can clearly see there's something missing.
This edition runs 76 minutes and is heavily cut. Being a very weird, arty, and (I guess) gory experiment, there's really no point in watching the movie in such a way as it is presented by Starz Home Entertainment.
The dubbing is english and not very good, but as far as I could find out, there's no other language-edition available (there seems to exist a spanish-version-DVD out of print).
So what's there to do?
There's a Blue Underground edition available (reg 1), which runs 91 mts and is presented in 1.66 : 1.
original feature length: 91 mts (ca 88 mts pal)
original aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
original language: german? spanish?
This edition is presented in 1.33:1 and even states this was the original aspect ratio, while watching the film you can clearly see there's something missing.
This edition runs 76 minutes and is heavily cut. Being a very weird, arty, and (I guess) gory experiment, there's really no point in watching the movie in such a way as it is presented by Starz Home Entertainment.
The dubbing is english and not very good, but as far as I could find out, there's no other language-edition available (there seems to exist a spanish-version-DVD out of print).
So what's there to do?
There's a Blue Underground edition available (reg 1), which runs 91 mts and is presented in 1.66 : 1.
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