99 Women is to have the 'infamous French Cut' (according to Twitter) remastered in HD included on the forthcoming Blue Underground set :)

I've never seen either cut but I'll be ordering it because more Franco is always welcomed.

Well it would if it were actually Franco.

99 Women was a British / Spanish production by former ITC producer Harry Alan Towers.

The proper version is the original 1969 movie filmed by Franco that really isn't that exploitative as none of Towers productions were.

The French cut added scenes of hardcore in which none of the films actors appeared in and these scenes were directed by Bruno Mattei.

In a way it's like adding hardcore sequences to The Great Escape and pretending they are part of the original film or some sort of directors cut.

Not Bruno Mattei ugh, well it still has the proper version included as the French version is included as an extra so it'll still be worth getting, unless, that is, the film is no good.

While I'm at it, is 'The Girl From Rio' much cop? It's recently been released on BD again by Blue Underground.

I like it. Again it's a Harry Alan Towers production.

They were Franco's biggest international successes. They were filmed in exotic locations and always looked superb, also they pulled in a cast of international stars like Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, George Sanders, Mercedes McCambridge, Klaus Kinski, Shirley Eaton and Richard Greene. The majority of these people were not hardcore stars. :lol:

99 Women is less exotic than The Girl from Rio, (some stunning architecture in that) and probably not as good but still well worth collecting in my opinion.

The blu-ray picture should be shit hot as i have all the Towers films on dvd and they all positively sparkle on that primitive format. ;)

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Blue Underground have just released a U.S three disc Blu-Ray set entitled 'Killer Thrillers Collection' that contains three titles that were previously released by Shameless: Baba Yaga, Night Train Murders and Strip Nude For Your Killer

https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Thrill...ers+collection

Nice set, but it's a shame the only one I don't already have on BD is Strip Nude for Your Killer. I'll have a look and, if it's available individually, buy it – I really like a bit of sleaze sometimes.

https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...db&oe=58224346

A Nazi piece of work......:behindsofa:

'Love Camp 7' was refused a certificate in 2002, suggesting that the BBFC still have a problem with it:

"The BBFC has refused a classification to the video of LOVE CAMP 7. LOVE CAMP 7 is an exploitation film set in a Nazi 'love camp' during the second World War. The film contains numerous scenes of women prisoners being abused,tortured and humiliated by their Nazi captors. Indeed the whole purpose of the work is to invite male viewers to relish the spectacle of naked women being humiliated for their titillation. LOVE CAMP 7 contains both eroticised depictions of sexual violence and repeated association of sex with restraint,pain,and humiliation. These sequences were in clear contravention of the Board's strict policy on depictions of sexual violence,which prohibits scenes that eroticise or endorse sexual assault. The possibility of cuts was considered. However,because the sexual violence runs throughout the work cutting was not considered to be a viable option."

LOVE CAMP 7 | British Board of Film Classification

Although that was 14 years ago and a lot has changed to Soho Square since, including longest ever cuts of films including Cannibal Holocaust, and others being released uncut for the very first time, for Love Camp 7 to be released largely, or entirely, uncut would truly be groundbreaking.