John-Jude Review of Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs (1969)

Venus in Furs will be smiling...You'l be left looking very confused.

[5/10 · 10 October 2013]

This is meant to be Franco's masterpiece which says it all.It's a bad film in many ways though worth viewing as a product of it's times.Most of the budget must have been spent on the copious amount of downers it took to keep James Darren in the zombified state in which he sleepwalks through the film.He's a long way from his Hollywood pretty-boy heyday and must've been wondering how his career had reached such a nadir.That said there are some rather lovely ladies getting their kit off-it is a Franco film after all.And the hauntingly deranged score complete with the payoff line sung accapela after each of the title character's murders will linger in the mind.What it's all about is anyones guess but the ending almost made me feel it made some kind of sense and was worth watching....almost.