Venus in Furs (1969)

Original title

Paroxismus

Directed by

Jesús Franco

Genre

erotic film, erotic thriller

Country

Germany, Italy

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A jazz musician becomes fixated on a mysterious woman he finds dead on a beach. The story follows his obsession with her and the strange events that unfold.

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What happens

Venus in Furs (Italian: Paroxismus) is a 1969 film directed by Jesús Franco. The plot involves jazz musician Jimmy Logan, who becomes obsessed with a mysterious fur-clad Wanda, later finding her dead body washed up on the beach. The film stars James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm and Klaus Kinski. The film was one of the many productions Franco had made with film producer Harry Alan Towers. While earlier material produced with Towers leaned towards more pulp-oriented material such as The Blood of Fu Manchu (1969), Venus in Furs was more related to what academic Tatiana Pavlović described as sexploitation-related material. The film began shooting on October 1, 1968 and was first screened in Italy on August 19, 1969. When the film was released in the United States as Venus in Furs, the version varied greatly from Paroxismus, being edited by distributors at American International Pictures. This version is what is seen on most releases since. In Italy, the film prints were confiscated after Italian courts found the film in " ‘complicity in an obscene spectacle" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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