tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post3964770020343020914..comments2024-01-09T04:01:00.672+00:00Comments on Breakfast In The Ruins: Franco Files / October Horrors 2019 # 4: Dracula’s Daughter (Jess Franco, 1972)Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-32745465703933389352019-10-08T17:07:03.799+01:002019-10-08T17:07:03.799+01:00I shouldn't worry too much Maurice; although i...I shouldn't worry too much Maurice; although it can take a while to get into the groove with Franco (I think I must have watched about half a dozen his films before I first began to suspect they weren't just terrible rubbish), at the end of the day he's not for everyone. : )<br /><br />I tend to think of directors like Franco (and Rollin, and Andy Milligan and so on) as being the cinematic equivalent of Captain Beefheart or The Fall or Sun Ra or something -- some people will just go NUTS for them, others will spend their whole life scratching their heads wondering what all the fuss is about; who can say why we end up in one category or the other?Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-64996450513630173362019-10-08T13:38:38.626+01:002019-10-08T13:38:38.626+01:00I keep watching and trying..........but Franco'...I keep watching and trying..........but Franco's never clicked with me. Highly bizarre as on paper, its all there and should be exactly my kinda thing, but I've just not been really bitten by any of the Franco I've seen so far in the same way that someone like Rollin really hooked in and stayed there.<br /><br />8-9 films and, yeah I kind of liked Faceless, but I'll keep watching them to see if something does it.Maurice Mickelwhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05415253943533672436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-23547955584960455012019-10-07T19:34:35.229+01:002019-10-07T19:34:35.229+01:00Excellent review. As a Franco addict, I find mysel...Excellent review. As a Franco addict, I find myself bereft of excuses for not owning this, and will seek out a copy posthaste!Doug Campbellnoreply@blogger.com