"Actor: Lina Romay"

• Shining Sex | Blu Ray | (06/09/2021) from £12.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most provocative films of writer/director Jess Franco's career. Lina Romay is at her most explicitly seductive as an exotic dancer whose body is inhabited by a being from another dimension to explore desire, depravity and death, while Uncle Jess himself portrays a wheelchair-bound psychic obsessed with the paranormal. Shot on location in the seaside resort of La Grande Motte, Evelyne Scott (DEVIL'S KISS), Monica Swinn (BARBED WIRE DOLLS) and Olivier Mathot (THE SADIST OF NOTRE DAME) co-star.

• Female Vampire | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eurotrash sex/horror auteur Jesus Franco's Female Vampire delivers nudity, drinking of human body fluids, plentiful zoom shots, languorous music, a vestigial storyline and the odd moment of surrealism (a flapping bat car ornament). It opens with a soulful-eyed brunette (Lina Romay) striding through misty woods wearing only thigh-boots, a leather belt and a black cloak, then chancing across a breeder of tropical birds upon whom she performs an act of oral sex that winds up painfully and fatally for the poor chump. One of Franco's better films, this still has an extremely leisurely pace which means that the story drifts dreamlike (or tediously, depending on your point of view) between protracted but unappealing sexual encounters as a smitten fellow with the requisite 70s porno moustache (Jack Taylor), a vampire-hating doctor (director Franco) and a blind coroner pursue the gloomy Countess for their own reasons. The vampire is mute but has an Anne Rice-style whining voice-over, and the dubbing means that everyone else seems equally dissociated from the words that fail to approximate their lip movements. Fans of Lina's frustrated naked writhings get to see her do the thing on top of several men and women, a bed, a tree and in a bath of blood. To Franco-philes, it's a masterpiece; to everyone else, wearisome tat. On the DVD: Female Vampire on disc comes with a nice widescreen transfer of a print that goes on longer than any previous UK release (though it runs 94 mins, not the 101 listed on the cover); an alternate opening sequence (with the title The Bare Breasted Countess); a fairly complete list of Franco credits; a French trailer (for La Comtesse aux Seins Nus); and four brief alternate scenes from a version of the film with less explicit sex but more blood (i.e., necks are bitten but not private parts). --Kim Newman

• Bare Breasted Countess | DVD | (06/03/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A family of vampires from distant Bohemia quenches thirst for the living forces given forth by human bodies during the act of love. Irina, the beautiful last descendant, meets an Austrian writer, Rathony. And Irina's gluttonous lips devour the living forces of her lover who surrenders to her his body and soul!

• Demoniac | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A former Catholic priest, who was tossed from the priesthood for his way-too-liberal beliefs, now writes S&M articles for a French magazine. Having been a witness to Black Masses complete with phony sacrifices, he deems himself judge and sets out to kill those people he feels are destined to spend eternity in Hell. Features: Directed by the notorious sexploitation Director Jess Franco Part of our successful Black House label Starring sex icon and Cult Horror superstar Lina Romay

• Women Behind Bars | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sultan of sleaze Jess Franco (VENUS IN FURS, SUCCUBUS) directs this depraved delicacy destined to delight connoisseurs of crime and perverted punishment. Raven-haired beauty Lina Romay (FEMALE VAMPIRE, MACUMBA SEXUAL) and blonde bombshell Martine Stedil (BARBED WIRE DOLLS) lead an exotic cast of curvaceous criminals in this uncut, uncensored entry in the women-in-prison genre.

• Revenge in the House of Usher | DVD | (08/05/2017) from £3.12   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dr. Alan Harker rides to the crumbling castle of his former university professor, Dr. Eric Usher, to find the old man caught in the grip of paranoia, his mind eroded by his ongoing attempts to resurrect his comatose daughter Melissa with the blood of abducted women. As he nears inevitable death, Usher enters a twilight world that exists between life and death, where he is met by some unsavoury souls.

• Demoniac | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £4.03   |  Saving you £5.96 (147.89%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A disturbed priest who witness an occult ritual thinks the people are possessed. In order to exorcise the demons possessing the participants he decides to torture them to death in the manner of the Inquisition...

• Jack The Ripper | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In this classic tale of horror and perversion the infamous Jack the Ripper terrorizes the East End of London of the late 19th century by killing and mutilating prostitutes. Scotland Yard assigns Inspector Selby (Andreas Mannkopff) a young and ambitious police commissioner to the case. As his investigation goes nowhere and public pressure rises his beautiful girlfriend Cynthia (Josephine Chaplin) decides to help him out by posing as a hooker and secretly visiting the bars where the

• Cries of Pleasure | Blu Ray | (25/02/2020) from £21.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ilsa The Wicked Warden | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Greta del Pino is the sadistic warden of a female concentration camp thinly disguised as an asylum somewhere in South America. This terrible place is the last destination of the undesirable elements in an obviously fascist state. Protected by the government Greta is unassailable and has absolute power over the lives of her prisoners. A girl almost manages to escape but at the last moment her pursuers catch her on the porch of the humanitarian Dr. Arcos who is disturbed by the obvi

• Revenge In The House Of Usher | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-7.54 (-75.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jess Franco directs this low budget slice of Euro horror under the name J.P. Johnson. Revenge in the House of Usher is a chilling tale based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic The Fall of the House of Usher. When Allen comes upon a sinister house clinging to a high cliff he is plunged into the macabre world of the Usher last descendent of a family plagued by madness. Usher leads Allen down a whirlpool of evil where Ushers' murdered wives are vampires and living corpses. Allen is

• Oasis Of The Zombies | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £8.46   |  Saving you £12.53 (148.11%)   |  RRP £20.99

  During World War II a small German squad was assigned to the task of carrying a shipment of Nazi gold across the African desert. Ambushed by Allied forces only one soldier survived the confrontation. Years later this American GI is murdered by a German treasure hunter intent on locating the stash. The soldier's erstwhile son swears revenge and heads to Africa to locate the killer and the loot. However both are soon terrified by the dangers that surround the gold...

• Entertaining The Troops | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A wonderful insight into the activities of American Entertainers during World War II

• Jess Franco Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Anchor Bay presents The Jess Franco Collection 2 a selection of his best works now available together with digitally re-mastered picture and sound. Experience Downtown Heat Down Town Macumba Sexual The Story Of O Inconfessible Orgies of Emmanuelle and The Mansion Of The Living Dead as never before with brilliant colours clear sounds and technical perfection surpassing the originals by far.

• Love Laughs At Andy Hardy | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The last of the original Andy Hardy films which had seen fifteen releases in nine years sees Andy (Mickey Rooney) return home from the Second World War and enrol into college. As he also wishes to rekindle his relationship with Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville) he selects the same college as she is attending for his higher education hoping it will also be the path to true love.

• Jess Franco Double Bill - Vol. 2 - Devil's Island Lovers / Night Of The Assassin | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Devil's Island Lovers (1974): A love-sick man is determined to woo his deceased wife's sister and get his hands on the family fortune... Night Of The Assassins (1976): A castle's residents are stalked by a masked killer who is intent on seeing each is on the receiving end of an exceedingly grisly death...