<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?attachment_id=6415" rel="attachment wp-att-6415"><img class="alignright wp-image-6415" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MPv2.jpg" alt="" width="385" height="456" /></a><strong><em>MURDEROUS PASSIONS: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco</em>
</strong>New Edition

<strong>STEPHEN THROWER</strong>
<strong>with Julian Grainger
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<strong>HB, 268.8 X 240 MM </strong>

<strong>512PP,  599 images, 326 in colour</strong>

<strong>£45 / £55 (with print  100 only) / £60 (with 7" and print 30 only)</strong>

30 copies available<span style="caret-color: #000000;"> with red-vinyl 7" single containing three tracks from <em>La Comtesse Perverse </em>and<em> Le Journal Intime dune Nymphomane</em>,  all by Roger Davy, plus an A5 print of Ania Goszczy<span style="color: #000000;">ń</span>ska's artwork featured on the original special edition  of <em>Murderous Passions.
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<em>Available late October 2019</em>

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Jesús Franco was a fascinating, iconic gure in world cinema. A passionate believer in artistic and sexual freedom, he constantly tested the boundaries of taste and censorship during an extraordinary career spanning sixty years and more than 170 films.

His delirious spontaneity turned the raw basics of popular cinema – sex and violence – into an avant-garde whirl of sensations. Franco’s taste for the kinky and horrific, his idiosyncratic visual style, and his lifelong obsession with the Marquis de Sade, birthed a whole new strain of erotica.

Films like <em>Succubus</em>, <em>Vampyros Lesbos</em>, <em>A Virgin Among the Living Dead</em> and <em>The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein</em> throw out the rulebook and reinvent genre cinema, while even his weakest e orts exude something strange and wild amid the chaos. Meanwhile, multiple international variants turn the Franco lmography into a dizzying hall of mirrors, entrancing for the a cionado but confusing for beginners – until now.

Originally published in 2015,  <em>Murderous Passions</em> delves into Franco’s career from 1953 to 1974 (a second volume, <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/flowers-of-perversion/">Flowers of Perversion</a>, covers 1975 to 2013). Assisted by esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, rower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco lmography, uncovering a wealth of new information. Unparalleled in scope and ambition, this revised and updated edition of <em>Murderous Passions</em> contains eighty more pages of images, many in colour.

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<em>Stephen Thrower is the acclaimed author of </em>Flowers of Perverison<em>, </em>Beyond Terror: the films of Lucio Fulci <em>and the ground-breaking </em>Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents<em>.</em>