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Frustratingly uneven as a filmmaker the 70's is where Jess Franco truly shined and prospered. Insanely productive, he made 12 films in one year (!) during this period. Several of them are masterpieces. Vampyros Lesbos belongs in his top 5 best works. It's aesthetically perfect. Georgeously shot with amazing insanely catchy music set to perfect editing. Swedish cutie Ewa Strömberg gets sent to turkey where she meets vampiric (iconic Franco muse) Soledad Miranda who snares her in her ghastly web of doom and perversion. Jess Franco is known for his alluring night club performance scenes of which there are plenty here. All inspired and perfectly choreographed and photographed. If you have even the tiniest interest in wacky cult cinema you HAVE to check this out. It's a genre all time high. Fantastic filmmaking.

I really enjoyed this film quite a bit. It's well paced and consistently funny all the way through. Jennifer Aniston is charming as ever, though it looks like she's gotten some recent touch ups on her face because she looks a little... off and Adam Sandler seems to actually give a hoot this time around. He's done some stuff on auto pilot for a while but not here. A couple goes to Europe for a much belated honey moon to try and spark things up again between them. They happen upon a rich playboy who invites them to a yacht where things quickly get very weird and very, very murderous. Now they have to not only survive but also try and solve the case since they happen to be the prime suspects. Very entertaining solid little movie.

I'm on a quest to watch everything Ruth Wilson has acted in. She's brilliant and steals this show as well. Here she hams it up tremendously as a ditsy/nutty sex pot. She plays the daughter of one of the gun toting old ladies who sets her sights on the son of another (Tom Hiddleston in an early role). While a fun idea this would've been better suited for a 30min short film. Old ladies touting guns and having turf wars in a quaint little town gets really old really quickly and they couldn't possibly have stretched this out further than the two seasons that were made. While fun and sometimes even brilliantly so this has a tiresome undercurrent of male bashing. Points subtracted for that. Besides that this is a mostly fun watch but it does get old and towards the end of the second season my interest had severely waned and I found myself surfing on my smartphone while glancing at the screen every now and then. Watch it if you are curious about early appearances from Tom Hiddleston and Ruth Wilson. Especially Wilson is broad camp to the hilt and she plays it wonderfully.