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The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

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The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

Doriana Grey (1976) [Uncut]
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:18:59 | 7,86 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 German, #3 French - each AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sexploitation

Director: Jesus Franco
Stars: Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Raymond Hardy

A lonely aristocrat Miss Gray has a twin sister who's in an asylum. They share a strange bond. Miss Gray is rational but frigid while her sister is insane yet feels sexual pleasure for both of them. A female reporter arrives at the mansion.


AKA:
- Die Marquise von Sade (1976) (imdb title)
- Le portrait de Doriana Gray (1976) (french title)

Doriana Grey (Lina Romay) is a beautiful recluse who lives in a castle somewhere in Europe. One day her world is invaded by a reporter (Monica Swinn) from a women's magazine. She's anxious to write a story on Doriana, to bring to light the rumors surrounding the noblewoman and her twin sister. It transpires that the twins are each lacking an essential element of their libido — while Doriana is a sexual vampire who extends her life, if not pleasure, by draining her sexual partners dry, the sister is the one who feels the sensations — and they are so overpowering that they've driven her insane…

The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

In the history of cinema, Jess Franco stands out as a unique, much debated figure. With a filmography fast approaching 200 titles, and many of those available in variant editions that drive collectors of his cinema out of house and home, Franco has dabbled in practically ever genre imaginable. His specialty, however, is a unique fusion of horror and eroticism which has been coined "horrotica" by critics like Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas. Franco first introduced elements of eroticism to his Gothic horror films of the early-to-mid 60s, such as The Awful Dr. Orlof (1961) and The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962), before upping the erotic ante later in the decade with the delirious Succubus (1967) and the magnificent Venus in Furs (1969).

The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

By the mid-70s, Franco began dabbling in hardcore porn, often building features around his latest "fetish actress" (and common-law wife), the uninhibited Lina Romay. With Romay, Franco created such explicitly sexual horror fantasies as Lorna The Exorcist (1974, in which Romay, as a teenage virgin, is violated by a witch who uses a giant phallus on her!) and Female Vampire (1973, in which she literally fellates her male and female victims to death… well, there ARE worse ways to go!). Doriana Grey is something of a remake of the latter film, but it's wrong to leave it at that.

The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

Quite simply, Doriana Grey is one of Franco's strangest and most lyrical films. Whereas the erotic scenes of Female Vampire seemed to disrupt the flow of the narrative, here the fusion of sex and horror seems integral to the proceedings. Make no mistake about it: this is hardcore pornography, with graphic depictions of fellatio, cunnilingus and ejaculation. But it's hardcore porn as art — obsessive art, that is. The erotic proceedings manage to be quite, um, stimulating due to the beauty and enthusiasm of Romay and female partners Monica Swinn (a veteran of many Franco films, unforgettable as the monocled warden in Barbed Wire Dolls, 1975) and Martine Stedil, among others. But the film also manages to create and maintain an oddly lyrical, delicate quality that survives the extreme nature of the proceedings.

The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

It is, above all, a meditation on the nature of loneliness, with Romay's character wandering about her beautiful estate waiting for the privilege to finally feel something. The sitar-laden soundtrack by Walter Baumgartner, coupled with Peter Baumgartner's naturalistic lighting and handheld camerawork, creates a delicate mood that is subtly intrusive and voyeuristic. Hardcore porn it may be, but Jess Franco proves the possibility of elevating it to a level that goes beyond the dingy raincoat brigade. As usual, Franco gets efficient performances from his small cast — the star is clearly Lina Romay and Franco's obsession with her body continues to this day.

The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

This is without doubt one of her best roles and she effectively contrasts the stately demeanor of Doriana with the animalistic nature of her demented sister, with a common thread of sadness and isolation to unite the two. A short film at 76 minutes, it feels longer but never gets boring - rather, the film maintains an almost hallucinatory grip on the viewer and is all the more fascinating because of it.
The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

Rarely has eroticism and bleak horror mixed together in as successful a combination as it is here as Doriana Grey proves to be not only one of Jess Franco’s most poetic films but also one of Lina Romay’s most inspired and passionate performances. It’s one of those rare films where art and explicit sex collide in all the right ways and we wind up with a movie as beautiful to look at as it is simultaneously somber and arousing. A worthy presentation of a truly strange masterpiece.
The 1000 Shades Of Doriana Gray / Das Bildnis der Doriana Gray (1976) [Uncut] [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Interviews
- Documentary about the Restoration of the Film
- International Theatrical Trailer
- Collection of Erotic Stills
- Trailer Gallery

All Credits goes to Original uploader.

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