https://vo.rs/tags/eurotrash/Latest from the Eurotrash desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/jess-franco-the-prolific-king-of-eurotrash/<p>No serious account of Jess Franco can avoid the number, so let us start there. He directed something like a hundred and eighty films, by some counts more than two hundred, under a scatter of pseudonyms — Clifford Brown, David Khunne, Franco Manera and a dozen besides — across five decades and half of Europe. That output is the first thing everyone says about him and the biggest obstacle to taking him seriously, because a good portion of it is genuinely terrible: incoherent, threadbare, shot in a week and abandoned. But bury a real filmmaker under that many films and you are guaranteed a handful of genuine spells, and Franco&rsquo;s best work casts a hypnotic, dreamlike charge that nobody else in exploitation cinema quite managed. The trick with Franco is knowing how to find the spells without drowning in the swamp.</p>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000