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== Plot Summary == | == Plot Summary == | ||
This strange, surrealistic German horror film from cult director Jesus Franco stars Janine Reynaud as Lorna Green, who performs a pseudo-snuff nightclub act involving erotically staged S&M murders. Lorna's mind is controlled by a man who might be Satan (Michel Lemoine), and she slowly loses her tenuous hold on reality, moving increasingly closer to the night when she begins to really kill. Lorna's nightclub act and the final scenes -- involving a wild orgy where Lorna viciously murders a man named Bill Mulligan (Jack Taylor) -- were cut drastically in some of the film's several release versions. | This strange, surrealistic German horror film from cult director Jesus Franco stars Janine Reynaud as Lorna Green, who performs a pseudo-snuff nightclub act involving erotically staged S&M murders. Lorna's mind is controlled by a man who might be Satan (Michel Lemoine), and she slowly loses her tenuous hold on reality, moving increasingly closer to the night when she begins to really kill. Lorna's nightclub act and the final scenes -- involving a wild orgy where Lorna viciously murders a man named Bill Mulligan (Jack Taylor) -- were cut drastically in some of the film's several release versions. | ||
==Production== | |||
After working on several productions in Spain, director Jesús Franco sought out financial backing in Germany.<ref name="Shipka184">Shipka, 2011. p.184</ref> Franco became frustrated with the production rules and censorship in Spain, stating that even if he had an entirely Spanish crew, he would have to film in Spain to receive the co-production funding, and that for ''Succubus'', "the censors had taken their red pen and crossed everything out, even the title".<ref name="Shipka186">Shipka, 2011. p.186</ref> The title for the film was found at the home of Pier A. Caminnecci where Franco found a book titled ''Necronomicon''. The story was only three pages long, so Franco fused the story with a previous film script he had worked on.<ref name="Shipka186" /> | |||
After finishing work on his film ''Lucky, the Inscrutable'', he went to [[production manager]] [[Karl-Heinz Mannchen]] with an eight-page script for ''Succubus''.<ref name="Shipka184" /> After securing funding, model Janine Reynaud was cast in the film after being introduced to Franco by his friend actor Michel Lemoine.<ref name="Shipka184" /> | |||
While filming was in progress, the German financial backers pulled out of the film.<ref name="Shipka184" /> Producer Adrian Hoven contacted Pier A. Caminnecci who took interest with actress Reynaud and agreed to finance the film.<ref name="Shipka186" /><ref name="Shipka187">Shipka, 2011. p.187</ref> An affair occurred between the two.<ref name="Shipka184" /><ref name="Shipka187" /> | |||
==Release== | ==Release== | ||