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Posts: 37 07/01/08 20:37:38	Tags : None Jess Franco on DVD Here are all the region 1 (North America) releases that I know of. (Anchor Bay - US) Ilsa, The Wicked Warden Kiss Me Monster Sadisterotica Succubus (Blue Underground) 99 Women (Unrated Directors Cut) 99 Women (X-Rated French Version) The Blood of Fu Manchu The Castle of Fu Manchu The Bloody Judge Cannibals Cecilia Eugenie Eugenie De Sade The Girl From Rio Marquis De Sade's Justine Two Under Cover Angels Kiss Me Monster Succubus Venus in Furs Women Behind Bars (Dark Sky Films) Count Dracula (Image Entertainment) The Awful Dr. Orlof The Devil Came From Akasava Devil's Island Lovers Dr. Orloff's Monster Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein Female Vampire Jack The Ripper (1976) Killer Barbys vs. Dracula Night of the Skull Oasis Of The Zombies Revenge In The House Of Usher Rites of Frankenstein Sadistic Baron Von Klaus She Killed in Ecstasy Vampyros Lesbos A Virgin Among The Living Dead Virgin Report X-312 Flight To Hell (Media Blasters) Faceless Nightmares Come At Night Golden Temple Amazons Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro Killer Barbys (Mondo Macabro) Diabolical Doctor Z (Severin Films) The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle The Sexual Story of O Mansion of the Living Dead Macumba Sexual Bloody Moon The Devil Hunter (Shock-O-Rama) Lust For Frankenstein Tender Flesh (Sub Rosa Studios) Blind Target Snake Woman Vampire Blues Mari-Cookie And The Killer Tarantula Red Silk Vampire Junction Broken Dolls Helter Skelter Incubus (Synapse Films) Exorcism She Killed in Ecstasy Vampyros Lesbos (Wild East) Eugenie De Sade Here are the budget label releases that I know of. (Music Video Distribution) Linda (Video Asia) The Devil Hunter (Terror Tales Volume 4) (Reel Classic Films) Grave of the Living Dead (Oasis of Zombies) (Televista) White Cannibal Queen (Diamond Entertainment) Jack the Ripper (Mill Creek Entertainment) Oasis of the Zombies (three different collections - Beyond the Grave 20 Movie Pack, Chilling 50 MoviePack and Vampires & More! 20 MoviePack) (EastWest DVD) Demons (The Demons) (BCI/Brentwood) Jack The Ripper Uk DVD Releases (Anchor Bay UK) Macumba Sexual The Sexual Story Of O The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle Downtown Heat Downtown Mansion Of The Living Dead Barbed Wire Dolls Blue Rita Eugenie Ilsa The Wicked Warden Jack The Ripper Justine Kiss Me Monster Love Camp Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun Sadisterotica Sadomania Succubus Sexy Sisters Voodoo Passion (Arrow Film) A Virgin Among the Living Dead Demoniac Doctor Jekyll's Mistresses (Dr. Orloff's Monster) Female Vampire Oasis of the Zombies Revenge In The House Of Usher The Awful Dr Orlof (Axis Films) Vampyros Lesbos (BigBen Interactive) The Bloody Judge (Blackhorse Entertainment) Cannibals Nightmares Come at Night Killer Barbys Vampire Killer Barbys (Eureka) The Devil Came From Akasava Eugenie De Sade (Optimum Home Entertainment) The Blood of Fu Manchu The Castle of Fu Manchu (Oracle Home Entertainment) Eugenie De Sade X312 - Flight To Hell (Origin Arts) White Cannibal Queen (Redemption Films) Dracula's Daughter Venus in Furs 99 Women (Screen Entertainment) Cannibals Nightmares Come at Night (Second Sight Films) She Killed in Ecstasy Vampyros Lesbos (Tartan UK) Dracula Vs Frankenstein Curse Of Frankenstein Devil's Island Lovers Night Of The Assassin (Vipco) Bloody Moon French DVD releases (Aventi) The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus 99 Women The Bloody Judge Feamle Vampire Exorcisme et Messes Noires Oasis of the Zombies (Opening) Eugénie de Sade Justine de Sade Later I will add other regions to the list. Feel free to point out any titles that should be added to the list. Special thanks to Mirek Lipinski and Howling Beast for their contributions to the list. Last Edited By: mike robert 07/08/08 18:51:23. Edited 6 times.
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bobmonel		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 07/01/08 22:32:29	Thanks for compiling this. I would even like to add the budget label ones to get a complete tally. Go to M. Kino's site for Japanese DVDs. I'll find the url later and post it. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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mike robert		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 37 07/01/08 23:29:28	I have updated the list with the Budget label releases I could find.
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jriddle73		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 115 07/01/08 23:46:02	I'm genuinely surprised to realize I own nearly all of those, even the re-releases. Was there an Image release of JACK THE RIPPER, though? I'm not aware of it. There is a very nice Region 0 NTSC release of that movie by VIP, which is in the process of releasing all of the Erwin Dietrich/Franco collaborations in this format, and perhaps should be included in your list, even if they aren't strictly North American releases.
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mike robert		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 37 07/02/08 00:28:53	The Image Jack the Ripper DVD is now OOP. Info for it can be found here.
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jriddle73		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 115 07/03/08 08:22:52	That appears to be directly carried over from the VIP disc, extras and all. I didn't even know it existed.
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mike robert		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 37 07/08/08 11:53:58	Updated the list with UK and French DVD releases.
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bobmonel		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 07/08/08 13:07:45	Thanks for continuing this. There's also the Spanish DVDs, such as the MERCURY CINE EROTICO ESPANOL (I think that's the name of the co.) of GEMIDOS DE PLACER, discussed in the featured thread. Other Spanish DVD's include LILIAN, a kiosk DVD. The the Manga DVD's of OPALO DE FUEGO, EL SEXO ESTA LOCO, EL SADICO DEL NOTRE DAME, JUEGO SUCIO EN CASABLANCA. Perhaps Nzoog can add other Spanish DVDs. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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bobmonel		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 09/24/08 13:17:47	It looks like Severin's THE DEVIL HUNTER and BLOODY MOON discs will be delayed for another month but they should be worth the wait. I'm expecially anticipating THE DEVIL HUNTER in a complete format. David Gregory reported to me that they had to go to some lengths to get these together. I'm pleased when a company takes the time to do it right. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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wearethedead6		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 14 09/24/08 14:23:15	SINFONIA EROTICA on r2
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wearethedead6	complete?	#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 14 09/24/08 14:30:13	Is there a running time given on these?? It's wild seeing these Sevrin titles getting pushed back ..did he say what happened specifically?
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bobmonel		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 09/25/08 02:50:15	there a running time given on these?? It's wild seeing these Sevrin titles getting pushed back ..did he say what happened specifically? He mentioned that they were particularly difficult to produce. They work to make sure they have all the correct and best possible elements. That's time consuming but solid policy assuring quality product. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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bobmonel	DEVIL HUNTER NEWS	#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 09/25/08 13:23:24	There is a fascinating thread on the upcoming Severin release of Jess Franco's THE DEVIL HUNTER over at the Mobius Home Video Forum's European cult cinema board [http://z8.invisionfree.co...?showtopic=9648&st=0] focusing on some of the expectations and some of the frustrations faced when putting a complete as possible version of this sought-after title together for a definitive DVD. Here's the most recent update copied from the Severin website: [Copied from the Severin website] The nightmare of Franco restoration As some of you have no doubt noticed, all of our recent releases have missed their street dates. This is due to a number of factors, not least the extra attention we gave to The Inglorious Bastards which took our attentions away from all subsequent titles for several weeks. Please see the new street dates below for our upcoming titles. Then there's the nightmare of the two latest Franco titles: Bloody Moon and Devil Hunter. In all the hundreds of DVDs we've been involved with producing, these two have been among the most problematic. With Bloody Moon it was a case of the negative missing a few seconds of violence. We went to the trouble of checking the original negative against an old VHS release of the film and saw no differences. The problem was that the VHS we were supplied with from a Franco authority was also cut! It was only when we received the finished Hi Def master from Germany that we realized the problem. A search ensued for film elements of the missing footage but turned up nothing. The only existing film prints in Germany were also shorn of this footage and we could turn up no other prints in countries that the film was released theatrically. The footage was considered lost except for VHS versions of the film. We incorporated the footage into the master from a VHS source but it looked terrible, particularly when compared to the beautiful Hi Def transfer from the negative. Then the German licensor unearthed a broadcast master that had been struck from an uncut print. We were then able to incorporate the footage into the film. Devil Hunter looked like it was going to be much more straightforward. We had our new Hi Def transfer compared to releases of the film from all around the world by a Eurocult scholar. He happily reported to us that our version was the most complete in the world, containing footage that was not available in any released version. He also urged us to include the French track on the disc as it was a far superior track to the English dub. We were happy to oblige. However, our master did not contain the French track, even though the check disc we had sent to the scholar for comparison purposes did. There was no explanation forthcoming from the lab in Madrid as to why this would be. We had the scholar ship his check disc to us but it got lost in the mail. So we had another Franco expert ship us a DVD-R of a French version to us. Lo and behold this French version was some sort of bastardized TV cut short by 10 minutes. It looked like we would have to go without the French track until we were informed that a copy of the DVD-R had been created before it shipped to the scholar. Both of these films are now finally off to authoring. If there are no major problems with the check discs then they will be released on the dates below. Apologies to our Severin loyals for these delays and we will be making every effort in the future to ensure that this kind of backlog does not happen. Bloody Moon, Devil Hunter and In the Folds of the Flesh will now be released on 28 October. [I just got an email from Severin confirming that DEVIL HUNTER will have a 102m runtime on their upcoming DVD. That's definitely the longest runtime I've ever heard. The onscreen title EL CANNIBAL and it seems from the press release that the French language track will be included. RM] JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com Last Edited By: bobmonel 09/25/08 14:32:11. Edited 4 times.
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bobmonel	Redemption DEMONS Cover	#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 10/08/08 13:32:07	JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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bobmonel		#14	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 10/08/08 13:42:42	I have to say I'm not fond of the artwork above. It doesn't capture the film's mood or style at all. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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dwaltzwriter		#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 62 10/09/08 05:42:49	I do believe that they were trying to sell the sexual aspect with the cover. Grab the people with the sex and that will pull them into the rest of the film. The old bait and switch as it were. Go to Divine Exploitation at www.divineexploitation.blogspot.com for the truly offbeat!
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wearethedead.thelatarniaforums		#16	[url]	[-]
Posts: 40 10/09/08 18:15:25	Yeah, a screen shot of Britt would be a much sexier "sell" to an audience unfamiliar with Franco's work.
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bobmonel		#17	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 10/29/08 12:47:28	shot of Britt would be a much sexier "sell" to an audience unfamiliar with Franco's work. There's some good vintage artwork they could have used. BTW, Roman Polanski attempted to get Britt Nichols to play the lead role in WHAT? after seeing her in Franco's films. She refused. If this is the new "director's cut" then it must have the updated soundtrack Franco added, replacing many original cues. Many purists have criticized him for doing that. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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bobmonel		#18	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 12/11/08 17:19:05	I would like to know which 2008 DVD release readers considered to be the best presentation of a JF film and which of his films they would like to see have a HD DVD release in 2009. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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jriddle73		#19	[url]	[-]
Posts: 115 12/12/08 09:47:20	bobmonel wrote: I would like to know which 2008 DVD release readers considered to be the best presentation of a JF film and which of his films they would like to see have a HD DVD release in 2009. The best presentation of 2008 is easy, really; it's Blue Underground's EUGENIE DE SADE. There were hardly any JF releases in 2008, and that was certainly the standout. Most of the others, though often given first-rate DVD treatment (Severin, I'm talkin' ta' you), were substandard Franco efforts. I'd give honorable mention to ANTENA CRIMINAL, the Trash Palace documentary about JF. I really liked that one, and it was a good package. I don't care about HD releases. That means Blu-ray, and I'd just as soon that died sooner than later (which is when I expect it to die). I want more JF DVDs, though. He's been a virtual mini-genre on DVD since shortly after it came into existence, but 2008 was a very impoverished year for his films. Jesus, these bats flitting around this board are AWFUL! --- "The Dig" http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/ Last Edited By: jriddle73 12/12/08 09:51:29. Edited 1 time.
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bobmonel		#20	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1246 12/29/08 17:53:23	Unfortunately, the last time I spoke with Severin they reported the Golden Films releases they did of MACUMBA SEXUAL, SEXUAL STORY OF O and MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD did not do as well as expected. But I do wish they would do some more of those films such as GEMIDOS DE PLACER, THE SINISTER DR. ORLOF and BLACK BOOTS LEATHER WHIPS among others. JESS FRANCO BLOG www.robertmonell.blogspot.com/ CINEMADROME: www.cinemadrome.yuku.com
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