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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381352429
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 57386
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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The Devil Came from Akasava (Jess Franco, 1971)
Jess Franco and zombies? Where do I sign up? Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was almost entirely unfounded, for the "Jess Franco" side of that equation is far, far more prominent than the "zombies" side.
The plot, if you're brave enough to call anything in a Jess Franco movie a plot: the Philosopher's Stone is uncovered. It has the fabled trait of turning metals into gold, but it also has the unfortunate side effect of killing ... Read More
Rating:  - Average Franco
"The Devil Came from Akasava" was made around the same time and with much of the same cast as "Vampyros Lesbos" and "She Killed in Ecstasy". It's not as psychedelic nor as good as either of those, but it's still a very watchable Franco film. Soledad Miranda is good as usual and the underrated Ewa Strömberg also does a very good job.
Those who expect to see a horror movie or a sleazy sexploitation film are likely to be disappointed. This is more of a spy movie. If you take it for what ... Read More
Rating:  - This psuedo-plot of a movie stinks
This movie is a rotten tomato.
It is a German version of Modesty Blaise except instead of showcasing fashionable clothes at any available opportunity as it does in the original, it showcases the main character, Jane Morgan, a secret agent from Scotland Yard, in as few clothes as possible for really no apparent sensible reason, other than she is posing as a dancer from Jamaica whose dancing partner is a chair. The movie is filmed with very stylized shots that do not work and do nothing to ... Read More
Rating:  - Another Slice of Strangeness from Jess Franco
THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA is another terrific piece of work from Jess Franco. I think that in many ways, this is one of his most ambitious and taught thrillers. It's Franco doing the spy game for us as only Franco can, with the lovely Soledad Miranda as a gorgeous agent and Franco himself playing a nebulous character that always seems to be on the periphery of the action. The action centers on a stone that turns other stones into gold. Naturally, several global parties are after this most precious ... Read More
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