Venus in Furs

aka: Paroxismus
UK / Germany / Italy 1969, 86 minutes
Dir. Jess Franco
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Cult, Horror / Sexploitation

Topics: Mind-bender, Hippies & Psychedelia.

Feat. James Darren, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski, Barbara McNair, Dennis Price

Aroview: A high point for dir. Franco's psychedelic Euro-sleaze vision, with a jazz musician becoming obsessed with a beautiful woman, her bloodied corpse and then mysterious and living reappearance a year later!

The enigma deepens as the hero is drawn into a kinky sex group led by the maniacal Kinski, in a series of increasingly weird encounters, all set to a brilliant 60s-era soundtrack by Manfred Mann. This cult item is also renowned for the casting of GIDGET beach-boy Darren in the lead. Note: the story is not directly related to the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novel.