The Bloody Judge (film) explained

The Bloody Judge
Director:Jesús Franco
Producer:Harry Alan Towers
Screenplay:
Starring:
Music:Bruno Nicolai
Cinematography:Manuel Merino
Editing:
  • Gertrud Petermann
  • Maria Luisa Soriano
  • Derek Parsons
Production Companies:
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Country:
  • Spain
  • Italy
  • West Germany[1]

The Bloody Judge is a 1970 horror film directed by Jesús Franco and written by Enrico Colombo, Jesús Franco, Michael Haller, and Anthony Scott Veitch. The film stars Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Hans Hass Jr., Maria Rohm and Margaret Lee. The film was released in Italy on February 5, 1970.[2]

Plot

This film is loosely based on the story of Judge Jeffries, the Lord Chief Justice of seventeenth-century England, who, in this film, condemned women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.

Production

According to Harry Alan Towers' biographer Dave Mann, the collaborations between director Jesús Franco and Towers were fraught with difficulties. Franco explained that Towers liked doing co-productions with others and that the film was going to be an Anglo-American-German-Spanish-French-Italian co-production. This led to many changes to suit producers in each country's needs, with Franco recalling that the film was at first a horror film with a historical backdrop, then more of a historical film with a background of inquisition, then primarily about the inquisition, then an erotic film.

Release

The Bloody Judge was released in Italy on 5 February 1970.[3] It was later released in West Germany on 5 June 1970. The film was released in Spain on 20 April 1971 as Proceso de las Brujas.[4] The film had 688,928 admissions in Spain. In 1972 the film was released in the US as Night of the Blood Monster.

It was released on DVD in the UK by Salvation Films in 1999.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Der Hexentöter von Blackmoor. Filmportal.de. December 7, 2018. de.
  2. Web site: Robert Firsching . The Bloody Judge (1969) – Jesús Franco . AllMovie . 2017-04-28.
  3. Web site: Bloody Judge. Robert. Firsching. https://web.archive.org/web/20120805012848/https://allmovie.com/movie/the-bloody-judge-v127776. December 7, 2018. August 5, 2012. AllMovie.
  4. Web site: Proceso de las Brujas. 24 December 2019. es. ICAA Film Database.