Venus in Furs
aka: Paroxismus
UK / Germany / Italy 1969, 86 minutes
Dir. Jess Franco
English
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Cult, Horror / Sexploitation
Topics: Mind-bender, Hippies & Psychedelia.
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.
Member Reviews
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3 stars (Good Enough) Great jazz score and great presence from Klaus Kinski. Must be close to Franco's best film ~Nick McB
4 stars (Very Good) One of the first of Franco's sex psychedelics, this is almost up there with The Other Side of the Mirror and Lorna the Exorcist. ~Pearce
3 stars (Good Enough) Often the soundtrack took over from the script, and I wasn't complaining. ~Tubbs
DVD Features
- trailers
- aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Close Relatives
- Daughters of Darkness (1971)
- Siesta (1989)
- 99 Women (1969)
- Girl From Rio, The (1969)
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Salton Sea, The (2002)
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