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This is one of Franco’s more audience-friendly sex dramas, and if your personal taste in interior design runs to 1970s ‘kitsch-moderne’ then it’s a veritable smorgasbord of visual pleasure. … Blue Rita tickles the senses so efficiently that it’s half an hour before one realises that the story has gone precisely nowhere. … Yet for all the fun, we stay resolutely ‘outside the frame’; nothing quite draws us into the charmed space where Franco’s best films spin their mesmeric voodoo. Despite its visual allure Blue Rita is second-string Franco; mainly, I think, because it’s devoid of his penchant for improvisation. … With its green ‘aphrodisiac potion’ poured over naked men, its spiteful lesbian dominatrices, the gold-spiked cages with descending ceilings, swirling narcotic vapours, coloured lights atop sci-fi gadgetry and nude women in gas masks, the whole affair is an amusing romp through fetish-comic imagery. If it stays just a step away from true delirium it remains a trip well worth taking.
Stephen Thrower, Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco, Volume Two (Strange Attractor Press, 2018)
Selected disc options for Blue Rita
Extras | Full Moon BD-A/US 2023 | Ascot Elite BD-ALL/DE 2014 | Full Moon DVD-0/US 2015 | VIP DVD-0/DE/OOP 2004 |
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Introduction by Actor Eric Falk | has extra | |||
Behind-the-Scenes - Interview with Producer Erwin C. Dietrich | has extra | |||
Sklave im Frauenhaus (Slave in a House of Women) - Interview with Actor Eric Falk | has extra | has extra | ||
Audio Interview with Filmmaker Peter Strickland - Conducted by Chris Alexander | has extra | |||
Stills Gallery [Ascot Elite] | has extra | |||
Stills Gallery [Full Moon] | has extra | |||
Stills Gallery [VIP] - Photos, Posters | has extra | |||
Biography: Director/Writer Jess Franco | has extra | |||
Biography: Producer Erwin C. Dietrich | has extra | |||
Filmography: Actor Eric Falk | has extra | |||
Filmography: Actress Dagmar Bürger | has extra | |||
Filmography: Actress Martine Fléty | has extra | |||
Theatrical Trailer | has extra | has extra | ||
Vintage Jess Franco VHS Trailers Reel | has extra | has extra |
Notes
- Full Moon’s “Vintage Jess Franco VHS Trailers Reel” includes trailers for: The Invisible Dead (1970), The Screaming Dead (1972), Erotikill (1973), A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973), Demoniac (1975) and The Oasis of the Living Dead (1982).