You know you've drunk the Jess Franco Kool-Aid when you find an old review from 2009 in which you slate this film and yet even though 13 years later all the points still hold true, they are now the reason you get such a great kick out of it.
Watched this film again at 4 o’clock at night. Maybe being spaced out from insomnia had a part to play as well, but this time I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, its odd angles and occasional hallucinatory day-for-night shots.
In order to pay penance for my prior lack of respect for Señor Franco, here are some German lobby cards for this last in the series of Bryan Edgar Wallace films by Artur Brauner’s CCC Film, a remake of its first entry (Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer/The Secret of the Black Trunk, 1962), and also arguably the last classic Krimi.
Yep, that's the way Jess Franco's movies work. All the valid reasons for disliking his movies become reasons for loving them.
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