Looking through a pile of DVD's,I found that I had a title by auteur film maker Jess Franco which I had somehow forgotten about owning! This led to me getting ready to experience some passionate voodoo.
View on the film:
Revealed in the superb book Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two by Stephen Thrower that the Sintra region of Portugal was used for the exterior sequences, co-writer (with producer Erwin C. Dietrich) /directing auteur Jess Franco joyfully embraces the great outdoors, via Uncle Jess's distinctive wah-wah, button-mashing distorted panning shots over the bare flesh of Susan and Olga (with Karine Gambier giving a wicked overripe performance as Olga), as co-star Jack Taylor unexpectedly also fully strips off in order to embrace the ladies with passion.
Grooving to regular composer of this period Walter Baumgartner Jazz bongo score, Uncle Jess enters the house of Jack and Susan to a gloriously kitsch atmosphere, lining each room with mirrors in every corner and decadent items such as a two foot high ceramic leopard, that are captured in Uncle Jess's unique playing of the zoom-in like a trombone, as things start to heat up between the trio, and Susan begins to have nightmares of murder.
Paying (some) level of respect to Voodoo culture by having Jack discuss with Susan the deep religious importance Voodoo has to the locals, Uncle Jess stages the performance as Voodoo rituals like Jazz dance numbers, where swirling camera moves Olga getting intimate with a bottle of Remy Martin, whilst the screenplay by Dietrich & Uncle Jess gives the trio wonderfully chewy dialogue as Susan's nightmares lead to her waking up to Voodoo passion.
View on the film:
Revealed in the superb book Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two by Stephen Thrower that the Sintra region of Portugal was used for the exterior sequences, co-writer (with producer Erwin C. Dietrich) /directing auteur Jess Franco joyfully embraces the great outdoors, via Uncle Jess's distinctive wah-wah, button-mashing distorted panning shots over the bare flesh of Susan and Olga (with Karine Gambier giving a wicked overripe performance as Olga), as co-star Jack Taylor unexpectedly also fully strips off in order to embrace the ladies with passion.
Grooving to regular composer of this period Walter Baumgartner Jazz bongo score, Uncle Jess enters the house of Jack and Susan to a gloriously kitsch atmosphere, lining each room with mirrors in every corner and decadent items such as a two foot high ceramic leopard, that are captured in Uncle Jess's unique playing of the zoom-in like a trombone, as things start to heat up between the trio, and Susan begins to have nightmares of murder.
Paying (some) level of respect to Voodoo culture by having Jack discuss with Susan the deep religious importance Voodoo has to the locals, Uncle Jess stages the performance as Voodoo rituals like Jazz dance numbers, where swirling camera moves Olga getting intimate with a bottle of Remy Martin, whilst the screenplay by Dietrich & Uncle Jess gives the trio wonderfully chewy dialogue as Susan's nightmares lead to her waking up to Voodoo passion.