Product Details

• Actors: Janine Reynaud, Rossana Yanni
• Directors: Jesus Franco
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305183384
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,173 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Kiss Me Monster" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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It's hard to tell whether Spanish exploitation legend Jess Franco actually planned to make a surreal spy movie, but Kiss Me Monster (originally titled Besame Monstrou) plays like a psychedelic parody of secret-agent thrillers and Hitchcock mysteries. A pair of stripteasing artist roommates, who bunk in a groovy little bungalow practically lost in deep shag carpets, turn freelance detectives when they stumble upon a secret message hidden in the strains of a song. Before you know it they've tracked the source to a Caribbean island where an ancient castle hides a mad scientist experimenting on (usually naked female) captives in his bid to create a strain of supermen. It's almost impossible to follow this incoherent mix of horror, sexploitation, and science fiction-a-go-go, but the absurdist dialogue (seemingly translated by someone who speaks English as a third or fourth language) and simply ridiculous situations are only enhanced by the overripe acting and clumsy dubbing. Flashy editing, garish sets, a terrific score that runs the gamut from lounge to big band to Latin to rock instrumentals, and enthusiastically awful performances by Janine Reynaud and Rossana Yanni help raise this entertaining mess to the level of guilty pleasure. Also stars German romance idol Adrian Hoven, who coproduced the film. Reynaud also appears in Franco's equally surreal but altogether more serious Succubus. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Weather dancing, singing, or killing, these women look good., August 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kiss Me Monster [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Kiss me monster starts out fast. There are two sexy nightclub-singing detectives. They seduce and kill. Sometimes they just cripple. Jess Franco directed. He's made some strange and very sleasy films over a long career: Sadisterotica (with the same cast), Faceless, The Awful Dr. Orloff, The Diabolical Dr. Z, Night of the Blood Monster, And other films under false names. There is a mystery to be solved and lots of fast paced dialogue. It's confusing from the start, super stylish, and the girls are smart and sexy. The first time I saw it I was very confused, the second time I got it. It's like a European Russ Meyer movie without the pnumatic aspect.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Franco a go-go, February 12, 2000

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Francoesque (Manacoa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kiss Me Monster [VHS] (VHS Tape)

More from Franco's Red Lips duo (see also "Sadisterotica") this a fast, furious and ridiculous romp through comic book colours, eccentric stock characters and a plot so simple it becomes almost incomprehensible. Franco himself cameos as a seedy contact who meets an untimely end in service of the plot. Not one of Jesus's more profound efforts to be sure but from the opening car chase (which runs under the credits and has nothing to do with the plot) to the finale, by way of badly dubbed songs to act as clues and show stopping night club scenes this is a joy. Franco obviously had a lot of fun with this one and it seeps out of the film and infects the viewer. A good introduction to the world of Jesus Franco for the uninitiated this is well worth the purchase price. Check out the opening credits and the (unmotivated) use of the "Blow Up" logo, which dances along in time with the jazzy score to see why franco is such a one-off.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS----NOT, July 20, 2010

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sakara (hillbilly penntucky) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Kiss Me Monster (DVD)

Jess Franco teamed up with Adrian Hoven, of MARK OF THE DEVIL fame, though this is a lame movie, that seems to have been written in a couple days, maybe when some last minute money became available---which is how some of Franco's movies were made.


No gore, a few seconds of nudity, lame action, no sets, all cheap location filming; not much going on for a 1969 spy movie. The plot is totally unimportant, as is a Frankenstein type monster (with no makeup) that is part of the generic action.

There is a disco scene with a horn section version of YOU REALLY GOT ME, and the location filming in Fascist Spain are nice. The title music sounds like it was lifted from a German Edgar Wallace movie, maybe THE CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND.

In a weird way, this movie, with two women for the heros, does come across as a less funny episode of ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!