2/10
One Shot
16 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Helter Skelter Part One: Pleasure and Pain never had a sequel and we're probably better off for that. This feels like you walked into a bar and saw Franco hunched over a bar stool while his lady love Lina Romay is whispering in his ear and he says to you, "Mi esposa y yo te vimos desde el otro lado del bar."

One of Franco's One Shot Productions - a name that makes more sense than it should - this is around an hour of so of images inspired by de Sade, but mainly Jess telling Lina what he wants to see while Casio music and video effects have their way with her. This makes me feel like someone discussing gonzo porn - how many ways can you describe the same acts over and over again?

Franco used the directing alias Clifford Brown Jr. And the David J. Khunne writing alias, but I'll be pleasantly surprised if he does much of either in this other than de Sade writings being spoken over nude flesh and Alfonso Azpiri paintings.

As for the other actresses, Mavi Tienda was also in Franco's Broken Dolls, which is probably where so much of this footage was taken from. Analía Ivars was in The Panther Squad, as well as Franco's Lust for Frankenstein and Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell. Rachel Sheppard was in the same Franco movies from this era, including Jess Franco's Perversion and Jess Franco's Passion. And actor Exequiel Cohen? He's in ten or so Franco movies like Killer Barbys vs. Dracula, Snakewoman, Red SIlk and Blind Target.

I really wish this was more than a Franco home movie. But it is what it is.
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