Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch.

Lady Lucifera AKA Polvos Magicos.1983.avi

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Runtime:	1h 28mn
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https://nitro.download/view/88F85004D947320/Lady_Lucifera_AKA_Polvos_Magicos.1983.avi

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:None

The post José Ramón Larraz – Polvos mágicos AKA Magic Powder AKA Lady Lucifera (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Couple Pablo and Anna return to their beachfront home only to find it trashed after having been broken into. Pablo immediately suspects a group of young hippies that have been staying at the farm next door and is determined to get rid of them while Anna, who isn’t exactly trilled with the group also doesn’t approve of Pablo’s overly antagonistic attitude. Pablo eventually reports them to the police in hopes of finally being rid of them for good, that is until the leader of the group decides to pay him and Anna a visit.

La Ocasion.1978.VHSRip.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 24mn
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https://nitro.download/view/8A98A17A9E7DF19/La_Ocasion.1978.VHSRip.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post José Ramón Larraz – La ocasión (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

After the death of his father, Piedad directs her family life by virtue of tradition and moral values in a small town in the provinces.

LUTO RIGUROSO.avi

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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English,Spanish

The post José Ramón Larraz – Luto riguroso aka Deep Mourning (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
A perverse little number from the erratic but always interesting José Larraz (Vampyres), this rarely seen, low budget blend of exploitation and art is best known to fans of Euro sleaze under its more colourful theatrical release title, Violation of the Bitch. For its first DVD release, Pagan translated the original Spanish title, La visita del vicio (or more literally, Vice’s Arrival), as The Coming of Sin. Under any time, it’s a twisted, often mystifying daydream filled with erotica and surrealism. Beautiful amateur painter Lorna (Patricia Granada) passes her sunny days dabbling with a paintbrush and burying herself in the family library. Life changes dramatically with the arrival of Triana (Lydia Zuaso), a dark-haired girl from a gypsy clan who comes to stay indefinitely and sparks a gradual, torrid relationship with Lorna. However, Triana’s dreams are haunted by images of a naked man (Rafael Machado) on horseback, a premonition which comes true one day while she strolls through the woods surrounding a nearby lake. The mysterious man, who never seems to wear much, attempts to rape Triana, who runs home and tells Lorna about the weird naked guy living with his horse out in the wild near their house. Lorna goes to investigate while Triana’s fantasies continue, including one which finds her naked inside a giant horse about to be… uh, straddled, apparently. Soon the mystery man directly intrudes on their lives, beginning an unholy triangle of lust which culminates in a dark reversal of fortune.

Though undeniably rough around the edges, The Coming of Sin is a strangely compelling alternative to the usual plotless European sex films of the period. The non-actors were evidently hired more for their looks than their thespian skills, and they make for adequate pawns in Larraz’s little mind game. On the other hand, the awkward dubbing reliant on forced British accents makes for some nasty ear punishment. As with his other kinky countryside yarns like Vampyres and Symptoms, Larraz relies on soft focus photography and elegant camera movements to counterpoint the often extreme and bizarre activity onscreen, including some fairly graphic and fleshy sex scenes. – Mondo Digital

1.99GB | 1h 29m | 1024×552 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/E664188A4D42D85/Jose_Ramon_Larraz_-_(1978)_The_Coming_of_Sin.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/4C05DC24D352D3B/Jose_Ramon_Larraz_-_(1978)_The_Coming_of_Sin.part2.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English

The post José Ramón Larraz – La visita del vicio AKA The Coming of Sin (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A blonde fashion model, Tulia is lured to an isolated country estate by a creepy older woman, Sara. There she meets Theo, orphan and homeless boy who has given a home by Sara. They call each other as aunt and nephew. He is photography-obsessed and even creepier than Sara. Tulia doesn’t seem too perturbed to learn that a previous female model, Rhonda that went there has disappeared without a trace, nor does she find it strange that her first night there they get her drunk and engage her in perverse game of strip poker. She almost has sex with the boy while the old woman secretly watches but he isn’t able to rise to the occasion. The next day he takes her into town and pays a friend to rip her clothes off and nearly rape her while he takes pictures. This doesn’t seem to bother her either because soon she’s involved in another bisexual three-way sex/photography session with them. There is also an allusion to the old Bluebeard story-the model has been forbidden to enter the boy’s mysterious darkroom.

2.46GB | 1 h 26 min | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0A7BFC0F1B59C1F/Whirlpool.1970.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post José Ramón Larraz – Whirlpool AKA Perversion Flash AKA She Died with Her Boots On (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
The official British Palme d’Or entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Symptoms is a sophisticated modern gothic horror film exploring the themes of sexual repression and psychosis.

Larraz’s dark and stylish film tells of a young woman (Lorna Heilbron) who is invited by her girlfriend (Angela Pleasence) to stay at her remote English country mansion. Events take a disturbing turn when a menacing groundkeeper (Peter Vaughan) interrupts their time together, and a woman’s body is found in the mansion’s lake.

Other than a limited theatrical release and a late-night screening on British television in the early 80s, Larraz’s film has slipped into obscurity, and the original negative was long thought lost, assuring it a place in the BFI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list. Following the rediscovery of the original negatives in 2014, the dark delights of Symptoms can finally be experienced again in this new restoration, undertaken by the Belgian Cinematek.

Made by a Spanish director working for an English company, with Angela Pleasence running mad in an old dark house and giving murderous vent to her sexist grievances, this is the finest British horror movie from a foreigner since Polanski’s Repulsion. The comparison is inevitable, because thematically the films have a good deal in common, charting the gradual mental dissolution of their spectral heroines. Symptoms imitates, but also improves on its original in a multiplicity of ways. The muted love affair between Pleasence and Lorna Heilbron is etched with enormous suggestiveness, and Larraz’s eye for visual detail is mesmerising.

Symptoms, usually only available in very poor quality prints, has had a recent restoration and gets a pleasing transfer to Blu-ray from BFI. It’s solidly in dual-layered territory and has a max’ed bitrate for the 1.5 hour feature. Trevor Wrenn’s cinematography has some impressive moments. Colors are muted but consistent. The 1080P even exports some minor depth in the 1.33:1 frame (IMDb states the AR is 1.85:1). It’s reasonably clean showcasing very watchable visuals. Aside from some contrast flickering in the opening – it’s quite strong overall. This Blu-ray represents a breath of fresh air for the limited digital representations that have surfaced including analog bootlegs.

http://nitroflare.com/view/60283DED62EEE6F/Jose_Ramon_Larraz_-_%281974%29_Symptoms.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post José Ramón Larraz – Symptoms (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

“The 1970’s was the decade of the gothic lesbian vampire film. The exploitation efforts of Jean Rollin (LIPS OF BLOOD), Jess Franco (VAMPYROS LESBOS), and Hammer (LUST FOR A VAMPIRE) were enormously popular at the time. These films successfully combined the fear of death and eroticism, which struck a cord with male audiences. Many of the films merely hinted at the overt sexuality, and most never fully explored the sexual aspects of the genre’s premise. That all changed in 1974, when upstart Spanish director Jose Ramon Larrez (or Joe as he is called stateside) raised the bar with the ultimate depiction of sex and horror, VAMPYRES. Larrez teamed with producer Brian Smedley-Astin to film their adult vampire epic in England. By the time VAMPYRES was released there, the censors cut out most of the offensive scenes, castrating the power of this artsy exploitation picture. Luckily when the film played the Drive-In circuit in America (as DAUGHTERS OF DRACULA), we got to see what the British audience didn’t–powerful sex trysts and disturbing death scenes. Thanks to Larrez’s scripting and directing skills, VAMPYRES rose to top of its genre. Today, VAMPYRES is a highly regarded classic in Euro horror-circles, and rightly so…

VAMPYRES is quite simply the greatest lesbian vampire movie ever made. This can all be attributed to director/screenwriter Joe Larraz, (who allowed his wife D. Daubeney to take credit for the screenplay he wrote). Larraz’s script tosses out the vampire cliches and these creatures of the night do not have sharp teeth, don’t turn into bats, don’t sleep in coffins, and don’t get staked through the heart. This is a fresh approach of vampirism, which is treated more like a disease. When these vampires attack, it is in an intensely gruesome manner. Like sharks kicked into a frenzy by the smell of blood, Fran and Miriam drink (and lick) the blood of their victims, then engage in sexual activities when their blood lust has subsided. They have sex in a bed, in the cellar, and in (my favorite) the shower.” – Phil Chandler, DVDCult

Extras:
– An mp3 of the (highly regarded) audio commentary with Jose Larraz and producer Brian Smedley-Aston.
– A lively interview with actresses Marianne Morris and Anulka

http://nitroflare.com/view/3373E29AB914248/Vampyres.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/09C485F56E1C9ED/interview_with_Marrianne_Morris_and_Anulka.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/8CE0BF7BA086037/Vampyres_%28audio_commentary%29.mp3

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

The post José Ramón Larraz – Vampyres (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.