Lust for Frankenstein

Lixo inútil em VHS com montagens inúteis e repetitivas para fazer as filmagens do argumento, feito com desespero, o suficiente para uma longa-metragem, filtros baratos e interpretações ridiculamente artificiais. E música rock de fundo constantemente tocada de forma inadequada, que é suposta dar-lhe dinamismo. Isto não tem nada em comum com o trabalho sensual atmosférico mais antigo e «culto» de Jesse Franco. (14/10/2018)

A cheap asexual erotic horror flick, the plot of which (if only the tiny bundle of insanities that seems to have been made up along with the filming can be called a plot) could fit into a ten-minute short. Now, since Jesús Franco needed a standard duration for his film, he stuffed it with all sorts of long shots depicting the sea, palm trees, houses, a turntable and bovine faces, the whole thing being incredibly badly colour-filtered, to the point I can only see it as a completely naive video art creation attempt. What kind of audience did Franco make this for? Looks like an insolvable puzzle. It’s intrinsically dull, bad, pointless and unwatchable. [Sitges 2018] (19/10/2018)