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| I have a great admiration for Jess Franco. For the last three or four decades he's probably been one of the hardest working movie directors in the world. Far from all his movies are good, but he's made some truly great ones, like "She Killed in Ecstasy" and "Vampyros Lesbos". In the end of the 1990s he started making movies for One Shot Productions, and all of his One Shot movies that I've seen were very amateurish and badly made. "Broken Dolls" has very bad sound, sometimes making it difficult to hear what people are saying (besides that, it's also difficult to comprehend what Lina Romay says due to her heavy accent). It's presented in Full Screen format instead of Widescreen. It has almost no plot and - as usual - far too long and boring sex scenes. But if you think the sex scenes in "Broken Dolls" are too long, you haven't seen nothing yet, until you check out "Helter Skelter", a "movie" that was obviously too bad to get an own release so they put it on this disc among the special features. I don't know if you can call "Helter Skelter" a movie. It's not much more than an eighty minute long sex scene with the completely unattractive Lina Romay, some other girl, and about halfway into the movie they're joined by some guy. Sometimes there's a voice over reading the same lines (Marquis de Sade, I suppose) over and over again. If you thought "Lust for Frankenstein" was bad, this is almost worse. As a fan of Jess Franco who's seen over 35 of his movies, I'm sad to say that I can't recommend this DVD to anyone, except the most die-hard Jess Franco completists. I hope Jess Franco will find himself some good producers to work for, who know how to make movies and care about quality. | ||||||
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