Sex Is Crazy
- Year: 1981
- Country of origin: Spain
- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Jesús Franco
- Length: 86 min
Film Synopsis
Sex Is Crazy (1981) follows a cabaret performer whose life intersects with strange figures, including extraterrestrial beings secretly operating among humans. As alien abductions, espionage elements, and surreal encounters unfold, reality becomes increasingly fragmented and unstable. This Spanish science fiction film blends erotic spectacle, surreal narrative structure, and absurdist humor.
Critical Perspective
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What begins as a sexy science fiction comedy turns into a paranoiac crime drama, then swerves off into horror, back to comedy, into deconstructed porno… This proves to be the way throughout the film. … El sexo está loco certainly lives up to its title. The film has a slippery, unstable quality, the product of a highly developed mind with a wayward, capricious wit. … It’s simultaneously the artiest and the silliest of [Jess Franco’s] films, and it plays equally well as a postmodernist deconstruction of his work or a party-hour send-up. A frivolous curio masquerading as jaundiced self-parody? Or is it the other way round? … In the end, this film exists because sex is crazy, art is crazy, and Jess Franco is crazy.
Stephen Thrower, Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco, Volume Two (Strange Attractor Press, 2018)
Sex Is Crazy Blu-ray & DVD editions
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| Disc Extras | Severin BD-A/US 2023 | Sinful Mermaid DVD-0/US 2009 |
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| In the Land of Franco, Part 7 - With Stephen Thrower and Actress Monica Swinn | ||
| Franco/Godard - Interview with Stephen Thrower | ||
| Jess is Crazy - Interview with Dr. Álex Mendíbil |
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Collector’s guide
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In the Land of Franco, Part 7 (24:38) -
Franco/Godard (49:31) -
Jess is Crazy (22:06)
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| Extras | In the Land of Franco, Part 7 - With Stephen Thrower and Actress Monica Swinn Severin BD |
| Franco/Godard - Interview with Stephen Thrower Severin BD | |
| Jess is Crazy - Interview with Dr. Álex Mendíbil Severin BD |