Jess Franco（软性色情片大师杰斯·法兰科）

Jesús (or Jess) Franco (born May 12, 1930 as Jesús Franco Manera) is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. Though he had an American box office success with his first women in prison film, 99 Women, in 1969, he never achieved wide commercial success. Franco has nevertheless retained a small cult following with his sexually-charged horror films. He was very prolific during the 1960s through the late 1980s, and while he continues to work, his output has slowed down in recent years. After 1988, with the exception of Killer Barbys, the quality of his work has degraded[citation needed], due to his inability to obtain financing.

Franco has made more than 180 films. Some of these include:

* The Awful Dr. Orloff (1961)
* Dr. Orloff's Monster (1964)
* The Diabolical Doctor Z (Miss Muerte, 1966)
* Succubus (Necronomicon, 1967)
* The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
* 99 Women (1969)
* Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
* The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
* Venus in Furs (1969)
* Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
* The Bloody Judge (1970)
* Count Dracula (1970)
* Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
* She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
* The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1971)
* A Virgin Among The Living Dead (1971)
* Dracula Vs Frankenstein (1972)
* The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1972)
* The Demons (1972)
* Female Vampire (1973)
* Exorcism and Black Masses (1973)
* Lorna The Exorcist (1974)
* Barbed Wire Dolls (1975)
* Jack the Ripper (1976)
* Greta The Mad Butcher (1977)
* Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
* Women in Cell Block 9 (1977)
* Mondo Cannibale (1980)
* Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
* Bloody Moon (1981)
* Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
* Faceless (1988)
* Killer Barbys (1996)

In recent years, his films, Tender Flesh (1998), Lust for Frankenstein (1998),Vampire Blues (1999), Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell (1999) have come to be heartily embraced.

Franco has also worked under innumerable pseudonyms, including David Khune and Frank Hollmann. A big fan of jazz music (and a musician himself), many of his pseudonyms are taken from famous jazz musicians, such as Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson.

Franco's themes often revolved around lesbian vampires, women in prison, and sexual exploration (including several films based on the writings of Marquis de Sade). Franco also worked in other exploitation film genres, such as cannibal films and nunsploitation.

His movies often contain long, uninterrupted shots of nude women writhing uncontrollably on the floor or in bed (such as in Lorna The Exorcist and La comtesse noire). He is also notorious for his use of hand-held camera and zoom shots, especially between 1968 and 1975.

He has frequently worked with actors Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Paul Müller, Christopher Lee, Soledad Miranda, Maria Rohm, Lina Romay (his longtime companion) and Klaus Kinski. Kinski is famous for his dislike of directors, but according to Franco, he never had any trouble working with him.