FRANCO Y FRANCO: Spanish Sleaze, Portuguese Surrealism and the Cinema That the Censors Missed. The Bad Movie Chronicles, #9

They made horror films under dictatorships. The censors got the clean version. You get the real one. From the fog-drenched studios of Franco-era Spain to the sun-bleached shores of post-Salazar Portugal, Franco Y Franco digs into the exploitation cinema that authoritarian Europe accidentally made possible - and the censors never fully understood. The Bad Movie Chronicles Volume V covers twenty films: the dual-version sleaze of Jess Franco, Paul Naschy writing himself as a werewolf for the twelfth time and meaning every second of it, the Blind Dead rising from their Templar graves, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador constructing a proto-slasher a decade before Halloween, and the singular lunacy of João César Monteiro doing things to Portuguese cinema that cannot be classified and should not be explained in advance.
This is not an academic history. It is a film-by-film autopsy of the weird, the magnificent, and the deeply irresponsible - complete with behind-the-scenes production chaos, drinking games, and awards the Academy will never give. You will learn what Spanish horror owed to Georges Franju, why Waldemar Daninsky keeps dying and returning without explanation, and what exactly Paul Naschy's relationship with Universal monsters tells us about working-class Spanish mythology.
You will not learn to respect these films less. Johnny Rewind has watched all of them. He takes full responsibility. He regrets nothing. Includes coverage of: Gritos en la Noche, La Residencia, La Marca del Hombre Lobo, Vampyros Lesbos, La Noche de Walpurgis, Tombs of the Blind Dead and fourteen more films that deserved both a better budget and exactly the budget they got.