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From the psychedelic and erotic mind of exploitation king Jesus “Jess” Franco and producer Erwin C. Dietrich comes Blue Rita, one of the strangest spy movies ever made! This lurid, sexually daring shocker follows the exploits of the titular heroine, Blue Rita (Martine Flety), an exotic dancer and gentleman’s club owner (and covert communist spy) who secretly gets off on seducing and torturing her enemies in graphic detail!

Full Moon is excited to be bringing this rarely seen Franco masterpiece to Blu-ray for the first time in North America, fully remastered in HD and totally, unapologetically uncut. This special edition release also comes with an uncut DVD, collector’s slipcase with alternate art, Hot uncensored art on the interior wrap and loads of special features!

Get ready for the sort of slick thrillride that only Jess Franco can deliver! Blu-ray/DVD combo Special Edition now only $29.95!

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Austrian director Ulrich Seidl has said it was always his intention to make “a single, long film encompassing the entire story” of his two previous projects, “Rimini” and “Sparta.”

The resulting film, “Wicked Games Rimini Sparta,” had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and is a combined version of his 2022 diptych “Rimini” and “Sparta,” which follows brothers Richie (Michael Thomas) and Ewald (Georg Friedrich), respectively.

Speaking to Variety, Seidl went on to explain how the original single project was split into two separate films: “During the extremely long process of editing, I wasn’t entirely satisfied and thought it’d be interesting to explore the idea of making two different films out of it, using the same material. So we attempted to do just that as I wasn’t convinced the extended version gave the best possible artistic results given the material. We made two films out...

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The 70th San Sebastián Film Festival unveiled its competition line-up Tuesday, with new works from award-winning directors Sebastián Lelio, Hong Sang-soo and Ulrich Seidl in the running for the 2022 Golden Shell.

Chilean filmmaker Lelio, who won an Oscar for best international feature with A Fantastic Woman (2017), will premiere his latest, The Wonder, in San Sebastián. The period drama, based on the Emma Donoghue novel, is set in mid-19th century Ireland and stars Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Burke and Toby Jones.

The prolific Hong Sang-Soo, who just won the Jury Prize in Berlin in February for The Novelist’s Film, brings his latest minimalist drama, Walk Up, to the Spanish festival. The plot involves a middle-aged film director and his estranged daughter who are being shown around a building owned by an interior designer.

Seidl, the Austrian director who has made a career...

Swedish cult film streaming service Cultpix, which launched in April, continues to beef up its catalogue while expanding deals with distribution partners.

Company co-founders Rickard Gramfors and Patrick von Sychowski will be attending the Lumière Festival’s International Classic Film Market (Mfic) in Lyon, France, where they will be on the lookout for new acquisitions.

“This is the first time that either of us are attending and we are already in discussions via email with other market participants,” von Sychowski said. “We are hugely impressed by the caliber of companies attending Mfic and the rights libraries that they represent and we are confidant about making several deals there.”

Cultpix has increased its offering from an initial 400 titles when it went online to some 600 films and TV shows, adding an average of five to six new titles a week, von Sychowski said.

Specializing in classic genre and vintage cult films and TV shows,...

From the wonderfully sleazy mind of legendary Swiss exploitation producer Erwin C. Dietrich (Rolls Royce Baby, Jess Franco’s Jack the Ripper and Barbed Wire Dolls) comes Mad Foxes (aka Los Violadores) the most delirious and offensive biker action trash flick ever unleashed! When hapless hero Hal (Jose Gras from Bruno Mattei’s Hell of the Living …

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Full Moon presents The 8th Release from The Jess Franco Collection Women In Cellblock 9 Franco’s notorious women-in-prison shocker comes to DVD, Amazon and Full Moon Streaming, totally remastered and uncut! From the fevered, wonderfully perverted minds of Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich (Jack The Ripper) comes the notorious women-in-prison …

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Legendary producer Erwin C. Dietrich backed Franco, calmed Kinski and made many masterpieces in the process. The European mirror of prolific cinematic plate-spinner Roger Corman has to be Swiss-born movie mogul Erwin C. Dietrich. Initially training to be an actor in the 1950’s, Dietrich instead found his path as a writer, director and producer, steering…

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Win a copy of one of Jess Franco’s greatest psycho thrillers on DVD. Cult movie emporium/distributor/studio Full Moon announced last year that they had licensed a pack of maverick exploitation filmmaker Jess Franco’s best work, films produced by noted Swiss mogul Erwin C. Dietrich. The company related their plans to release a new title every…

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Stars: Kali Hansa, Pilar Coll, Diotta Fatou, Eric Falk, Sigad Sharaf, Roman Huber | Written and Directed by Erwin C. Dietrich, Jess Franco

Weisse Haut auf schwarzen Schenkeln opens up on the Mondo Erotico set. You know, the obscenely small and narrow black room with the white fluffy bed. It’s here we meet Marga, an exotic erotic dancer played by Diotta Fatou (Die Sklavinnen). She’s in the middle of one of her stage shows. In the audience we meet Robert, a wealthy middle-aged man played by Roman Huber (Das Frauenhaus). He enjoys the show so much that when Marga has finished her little dance, he decides to take her back to somewhere private. The pair get down to business and instead of enjoying that wonderful post sex cigarette, Marga does the next best thing and throws herself out of the window. Yep, bitches be crazy! The next day Robert...

Stars: Candida Royalle, Ian McGregor, Lisa De Leeuw, Herschel Savage, Tawny Pearl, Connie Peterson | Written by Erwin C. Dietrich, Ann Perry | Directed by Ann Perry-Rhine

Candida Royalle (Ultra Flesh) stars as Lolita Wanamaker, a young and attractive woman recently sentenced to a few years in prison. She immediately makes a good first impression. Neither the prison guards or her fellow inmates can’t take their hands off her. The inmates are a close-knit group who go by the name of ‘The Beavers’. When they aren’t getting it on with each other, they’re having their own fun with the prison staff. Seems like it’s more of a holiday camp than a prison right? Wrong! You see, the girls have to live in squalid conditions and they’ve had enough! They do what all disgruntled prisoners usually do and sign a petition? Unfortunately for them, Warden Blowhard, played by...

Stars: Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Raymond Hardy, Peggy Markoff, Martine Stedil, Andrea Rigano | Written and Directed by Jess Franco

It’s that time again ladies and gentlemen! We are entering the sordid world of Jess Franco. My previous reviews have always been for the DVD versions of Ascot Elite’s releases. This time however, I have access to a Blu-ray player (yeah, one of those fancy modern contraptions!) and I’m going to use it goddamnit! This release is a joint one between Ascot Elite and Austria’s Illusions Unltd. You see, due to the graphic content of the film, it’s forbidden to be advertised and sold on websites like Amazon within Germany. So, HD Franco with an extra hint of sleaze? It has to be good!

Die Marquise von Sade follows Lina Romay (Ilsa the Mad Butcher) in a dual role as twin sisters. One is a reclusive...

We find ourselves imprisoned in the shackles of some lovely Jess Franco smut. A collaboration between Franco and Erwin C. Dietrich. The film is Love Camp (not to be confused with the inferior Nazisploitation film) and we are slaves to its sleaziness. I don’t know what I’m talking about! Maybe it’s the revolution in the air? Maybe it’s the bare chested women? Who knows!

aka Ru der blonden Göttin

Stars: Ada Tauler, Nanda Van Bergen, Jack Taylor, Karine Gambier, Vítor Mendes, Ly Frey, Aida Gouveia | Written by Jess Franco, Erwin C. Dietrich | Directed by Jess Franco

The film opens up on a sun kissed beach in Haiti. A group of locals are in the middle of a Voodoo ritual (pointed out in almost clumsy Mondo documentary like narration). They sure are having a good time letting loose and letting it all hang out! As this is going on a ship arrives. One of the passengers is Susan, a wealthy woman played by Ada Tauler (Love Camp). She is greeted by a young and attractive woman by the name of Inès, played by Nanda Van Bergen (Women Without Innocence). Susan is in Haiti (shame the actress dubbing her voice can’t really pronounce it properly) to meet and spend time with her husband Jack, played...

aka Frauen Ohne Unschuld

Stars: Lina Romay, Nanda Van Bergen, Michael Maien, Esther Studer, Kurt Meinicke, Brigitte Meyer, Monica Swinn, Peggy Markoff, Peter Baumgartner, Dagmar Bürger | Written by Erwin C. Dietrich, Jesús Franco | Directed by Jess Franco

Lina Romay (Downtown, Barbed Wire Dolls) stars as Margarita, a young woman who is discovered by police naked amongst a scene of bloody carnage. Unable to speak due to the trauma, she is sent to a nearby all women asylum. Unfortunately for her, the staff aren’t exactly too interested in her well being or recovery. When they aren’t trying to seduce Margarita or the other patients, they’re trying to figure out Margarita’s dark secret. You see, Margarita was involved in what she believed to be a harmless love triangle with a well to do couple. Unbeknownst to her, they were using her for more than just her looks, they...

Ashton Kutcher is preparing to take the witness stand in the case of his then-girlfriend's grisly death, and his testimony could help convict her alleged killer.

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Michael Thomas Gargiulo is currently in custody in Downtown Los Angeles, standing accused of murdering three women, including a young lady that Kutcher was seeing at the time, 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin.

On February 21, 2001, police say that Ellerin was stabbed 47 times while in the shower.

On that day, Kutcher tells police that he received a call from Ellerin asking if she should go with him to a Grammy viewing party. The That '70s Show actor, then 23, went by her Hollywood home later that day at 10:45 p.m.

"He was picking her up and he got to the house and knocked on the door and it was dark," Susan Zirinsky, senior executive producer of 48 Hours, told Et. "So he decides...

There are women in prison movies and then there’s Barbed Wire Dolls aka Frauengefangnis from Jess Franco. For most of the move you’re not entirely sure if there is a narrative going on save for the subtle relationship building activities of a group of imprisoned women who feel the need to walk around naked, pantless or, if clothed at all, still showing their entire body somehow. Most women in prison films seem to have common elements and Barbed Wire Dolls clearly shares those elements, but there is also a unique element to this particular entry. It is rather gorgeous. It’s pretty prison. Not necessarily clean, but it is filled with stunning beauties who are arranged in cells that are perfect for physical education.

Synopsis from Ascot Elite:

Franco exploitation at it’s finest!! Sadistic torture and perversion are only a small taste of what poor Maria (Lina Romay...

by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com

Written and directed by Lucio Fulci, The New York Ripper (1982) is an Italian giallo movie, known for graphic violence and sex. It’s also a great example of a grindhouse flick. Ripper follows police Lieutenant Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) and his search for a potential serial killer. While interviewing the nosy landlady of a victim whose hand was found by a dog, she tells Williams that the girl had arranged a meeting with a man who sounded like a duck. Meanwhile another girl is murdered on the Staten Island Ferry. The coroner tells Williams that the first girl and the one from the ferry match another murder….so Williams apparently does have a serial killer on his hands. Williams goes to Columbia University to meet with the brilliant psychotherapist Dr. Paul Davis (Paolo Malco) in an attempt to get a profile on the killer.

Meanwhile,...