Red lips - sadisterotica
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Red lips - sadisterotica |
| Original title | El caso de las dos bellezas / Red Lips - Sadisterotica |
| Country of production |
Spain Germany |
| original language |
English Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 81, 79, 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jess Franco |
| script | Jess Franco Luis Revenga Gert Günther Hoffmann (German dialogues) |
| production |
Adrian Hoven José López Moreno |
| music | Jerry van Royen (German version) |
| camera |
Jorge Herrero Franz Hofer |
| cut |
Francisco Garcia Velázquez María Luisa Soriano |
| occupation | |
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Red Lips - Sadisterotica is a Spanish-German exploitation and crime film with occasional comedic elements from 1967 by Jess Franco (direction) and Adrian Hoven (production), who also took on one of the leading roles.
action
The two bisexual women Diana and Regina run a detective agency under the name “Red Lips”. Her latest assignment brings her to a Mr. Radek, who assigns the two graces to look for his missing lover Lida. Lida Regnier is not the first young woman to disappear recently. One hot lead leads to the ominous painter Klaus Tiller, who runs his own studio. The artist is known for his “delicate” works, which often show more or less barely clad women at the moment of their death. Diana and Regina find that the depicted women of the “artist of death”, as he is also called, have frightening similarities with the missing women.
So far, no one knows the terrible secret behind these paintings: Tiller has his models kidnapped by a shaggy-bearded creature named Morpho, his unconditionally loyal factotum, and kidnapped into his studio (including obviously the missing Lida). Here, on behalf of his master, he strangles the kidnapped women whom Tiller is photographing in their agony in order to later immortalize this immortal moment on the canvas. When Diana and Regina track down this bloody goings-on, they soon find themselves in fatal danger ...
Production notes
Red Lips - Sadisterotica was filmed in Spain in September / October 1967 and shown for the first time in Germany on March 28, 1969.
The acting veteran Alexander Engel gave his farewell performance in a movie here.
useful information
Almost at the same time as this (largely unnoticed in Germany) film, Hoven produced - largely with the same team - the previous film “ Kiss me, Monster ”, which did not run in Germany, but in Austria. Chris Howland plays in Red Lips - Sadisterotica , as in “ Kiss Me, Monster ”, a slightly idiot Interpol policeman.
Hoven, who had made a name for himself in the 1950s with fluffy films, comedies and romances and in the 1960s with some cheap crime novels, began to discover the exploitation film genre for himself in the fall of 1966 . After the great success with Necronomicon - Dreamed Sins , where he worked for the first time with the Spanish trash film specialist Jesús Franco Manera (Jess Franco) and the actress Janine Reynaud , he continued this collaboration with the two colleagues on several films in 1967. Hoven made his last two known exploitation films in the castle of bloody desire and witches tormented to the blood under his own direction.
The decorative tower that the two detectives use as the headquarters of their “Red Lips” detective agency is actually the Torre de Cabo Roig near Orihuela .
The film was first released in full on DVD by VZ-Handelsgesellschaft mbH in June 2020 .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as an "absurd mixture of soft porn, criminal suspense and horror cinema clichés."
Spain's Guia del video-cine found the film "preferable to its predecessor ('Kiss me, Monster') and also more entertaining"
Web links
- Red lips - Sadisterotica in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Red lips - Sadisterotica at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Red Lips - Sadisterotica. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ^ Carlos Aguilar: Guia del video-cine, p. 207, 4th edition. Madrid 1992