Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs (1969)

Paroxismus

Venus in Furs will be smiling.

After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.

Date of release
1969-08-19
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (58)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Jesús Franco

Casting

Interesting facts

Venus in Furs is a 1969 film directed by Jesús Franco. The plot involves jazz musician Jimmy Logan, who becomes obsessed with a mysterious, fur-clad Wanda, later finding her dead body washed up on the beach. The film stars James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, and Klaus Kinski.

Production

Venus in Furs was produced by British producer Harry Alan Towers. In 1963, Towers had been producing films in Europe through multi-country co-productions giving him access to various local tax-break schemes and allowing him to take advantage of low-budget films that could easily be profitable before even an audience would see them. It was one of several productions between Towers and director Jesús Franco shot between 1967 and 1970.

Franco said the idea for the film spurred from a conversation had between Franco and jazz musician Chet Baker, where Baker described a sensation of floating away from reality when he performed his trumpet solos, only to open his eyes into reality. Credits and interviews with crew members give various contradicting information on the development of Venus in Furs. Italian film prints credit Franco, Malvin Wald, Carloa Fadda, and Milo G.

Venus in Furs began shooting on October 1, 1968. It was shot in Rome, Marbella, Barcelona, and Istanbul and within studios Estdusio Balcazar in Barcelona and A.T.C. at Grottaferrata in Rome.

The film is unrelated to the novel Venus in Furs. At the time, names like Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade were in vogue more so for promoting shocking eroticism seen in various 1960s horror films. The title was imposed on Franco by an American distributor, with the director preferring the title Black Angel. Franco stated the lead was meant to be a black man pursuing a woman played by Maria Rohm.

The music in the film was performed by Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg. Mann is also in the film, playing electric piano during the performance of "Let's Get Together".

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