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Linda (1981)
(เสียงอังกฤษ) |
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Director:Jess
Franco Screenplay by:Erick
Tomeck
Running time:88
min Country:Spain,
West Germany Language:English
Genre:Crime,
Exploitation
Subtitle:Dutch Starring:Katja
Bienert ... Linda Norman, Bea
Fiedler ... Mitzi
Ursula
Buchfellner ... Betsy Norman (as Ursula Fellner),
Raquel Evans ... Sheila,
Antonio Mayans ... Ron (as Robert
Foster),
Antonio Rebollo ... (as Tony Skios),
Andrea Guzon ,
Ana María Segura ... (as Maria Segura),Doris
Regina ... (as Teodora Segura), |
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PLOT:
Betsy Norman is a happy assistant at a luxurious Spanish
hotel. Shiela, the hotel owner, caters for all wishes of
her clientele with another lucrative business, the
brothel "Rio Amore" where clients from all over the
world come to relax with the girls and watch the
sado-masochistic shows. Linda, Betsy''s sister, is
drugged and forced to work as a prostitute there.
REVIEW:
This is a lesser known feature from Jesus Franco, at
least I had never heard about it before. But of course,
the man have done more movies than any other director
alive, so a handful of titles need to vanish to
obscurity. ''Linda'' might not be among the finest by
Franco but it is still a worthy effort for most fans of
sleazy Euro-trash. A titular teenager get a vacation
from the nun controlled boarding house(where the
virginal girl practice for her first time with the other
girls!).
She head for a island in the Mediterranean Sea to visit
her older sister, Betsy who are working at a fancy
hotel. Unfortunately Betsy have got into some serious
trouble with the corrupt managers, she have become
locked up and forced to work in the sleazy brothel that
the hotel cover! Actually this is two separate stories
that culminate in the end. Linda is unaware of her
sisters case and spend her time fooling around with a
young stud she have met, who gladly will help her get
rid of her virginity!
While Betsy must go through endless sexual humiliation
and and torture, under control of a vicious female pimp
and her goons. The dubbing is amateurish and the
soundtrack is hopeless dated, but Franco have done his
best to mix the erotic with exploitational sadism, WIP
aesthetic and classic pulp novel style fetishism. The
movie is beautiful shot and the female cast generally
looks great!
Apparently I did, but I shouldn''t have expected a movie
similar to Vampyros Lesbos. I bought this movie on DVD
from a Dutch company called Japan Shock who never failed
to deliver good solid trash from Asia and Italy and I
was yet to be disappointed. This one comes close.
It''s very hard to distinguish this as a Franco movie. I
know that he made a lot of movies (182 according to the
IMDb listing) and of course not all can be masterpieces,
but this one is not very different from most German late
''70s/early ''80s softporno flicks, the ones they show
late saturday night on cable television.
There were some moments that reminded me of older Franco
movies. There were a couple of scenes where naked women
were involved in sado-erotic performances with audiences
watching - which, believe it or not, is a Franco
trademark - and there is a climax (!) involving
scorpions, an animal Franco seems to feel very related
to.
I missed the completely useless zooms he is famous for
though, and for once they''d have been completely in
place.
Overall, if you like beautiful naked German girls making
love, getting whipped and being tortured; if you like
bad English overdubbing that goes as far as people not
opening their mouth while they are talking; if you like
poor editing, bad camerawork, lousy acting and the
weakest plot ever, then this is the movie for you.
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