Episode 75 (Franco-Files part 3) Once again Franco takes inspiration from De Sade with his delirious 1973 film Plaisir à trois aka: How To Seduce a Virgin. Returning home from a mental institution after castrating a previous lover, Countess Martine de Bressac (Alice Arno) is reunited with her slinky and kinky husband Count Charles de Bressac (Robert Woods) who entices her with the prospect of sullying the virginal daughter of a neighboring diplomat. Joined by the dwarf groundskeeper Malou (Alfred Baillou) and the inarticulate house maid Adèle played by Franco’s greatest muse Lina Romay in one of her earliest appearances. What follows is a surreal and wickedly enjoyable trip with the beau monde of perversity as only Jess Franco can deliver.

Episode 75 (Franco-Files Pt. 2) Next stop on our journey through the world of Jess Franco is his haunting 1971 fever-dream A Virgin Among The Living Dead. Traveling to Portugal, naïve orphan Christina Bentham (Christine von Blanc) arrives at Montserrat Mansion for the reading of her father’s will, and is introduced to her family of decadent layabouts (including Franco regulars Britt Nichols, Howard Vernon, Paul Müller and Franco himself as the retarded manservant Basilio), and the mysterious Queen of the Night (Anne Libert). Like Alice’s trip through the looking glass, Christina’s voyage will tempt her beyond the boundaries of the logical. Without entirely abandoning the necessary sleaze, Franco creatively infuses this gothic premise with some of the most memorably poetic and surreal images of his entire career.

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Episode 75 (Franco-Files Pt. 2) Next stop on our journey through the world of Jess Franco is his haunting 1971 fever-dream A Virgin Among The Living Dead. Traveling to Portugal, naïve orphan Christina Bentham (Christine von Blanc) arrives at Montserrat Mansion for the reading of her father’s will, and is introduced to her family of decadent layabouts (including Franco regulars Britt Nichols, Howard Vernon, Paul Müller and Franco himself as the retarded manservant Basilio), and the mysterious Queen of the Night (Anne Libert). Like Alice’s trip through the looking glass, Christina’s voyage will tempt her beyond the boundaries of the logical. Without entirely abandoning the necessary sleaze, Franco creatively infuses this gothic premise with some of the most memorably poetic and surreal images of his entire career.

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Episode 74 isn't breaking new ground with its subject; but Jordan Peele's new film Us deserves the over saturation of takes and analysis that it is currently receiving. This episode is also a simulcast with PsychotroniCast's Patreon feed. If you don't know, now you know. for $5 a month, you will a receive bonus podcasts such as this to infiltrate your ears. Sign up now to help us keep the lights off, and the TV on!

Episode 74 isn't breaking new ground with its subject; but Jordan Peele's new film Us deserves the over saturation of takes and analysis that it is currently receiving. This episode is also a simulcast with PsychotroniCast's Patreon feed. If you don't know, now you know. for $5 a month, you will a receive bonus podcasts such as this to infiltrate your ears. Sign up now to help us keep the lights off, and the TV on!

Episode 73 (Franco-Files part 1) We begin our look at the films of the incredibly prolific Jesús “Jess” Franco with his 1970 film Eugénie (aka Eugénie de Sade). Taking advantage of the loosening of film censorship at the end of the 60s and coinciding with the termination of his working relationship with producer Harry Alan Towers, which had provided Franco with the biggest budgets and star studded casts of his career, Franco boldly made use of his new freedoms by adapting a segment of the Marquis de Sade’s Crimes of Love, turning sharply away from the mainstream in developing his idiosyncratic style that would be as notable for hypnotic rhythms as much as the abundance of female nudity and subversive sexuality. Starring his spellbinding muse Soledad Miranda and featuring Franco regulars Paul Muller and Alice Arno, Eugénie is a fascinating example of cinematic libertinism, featuring incest, murder and thigh high boots.

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Episode 73 (Franco-Files part 1) We begin our look at the films of the incredibly prolific Jesús “Jess” Franco with his 1970 film Eugénie (aka Eugénie de Sade). Taking advantage of the loosening of film censorship at the end of the 60s and coinciding with the termination of his working relationship with producer Harry Alan Towers, which had provided Franco with the biggest budgets and star studded casts of his career, Franco boldly made use of his new freedoms by adapting a segment of the Marquis de Sade’s Crimes of Love, turning sharply away from the mainstream in developing his idiosyncratic style that would be as notable for hypnotic rhythms as much as the abundance of female nudity and subversive sexuality. Starring his spellbinding muse Soledad Miranda and featuring Franco regulars Paul Muller and Alice Arno, Eugénie is a fascinating example of cinematic libertinism, featuring incest, murder and thigh high boots.

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Episode seventy-two concludes PsychotroniCast's 3rd Annual Blaxploitation Month with the cold mush that is 2018's Super Fly. There is nothing worth remembering or revisiting with this film but there is plenty to discuss as to WHY it didn't work.

Episode seventy-two concludes PsychotroniCast's 3rd Annual Blaxploitation Month with the cold mush that is 2018's Super Fly. There is nothing worth remembering or revisiting with this film but there is plenty to discuss as to WHY it didn't work.

Episode seventy-one tackles one of the most iconic Blaxploitation movies ever made (and with good reason) Gordon Parks Jr.'s 1972 classic: Super Fly. Like Shaft, the soundtrack is more popular than the film itself; thanks to the Chicago born soul legend, Mr. Curtis Mayfield. But don't sleep on this film, forty-seven years later you can still see the influence into popular culture and subcultures alike.