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From the psychedelic and erotic mind of exploitation king Jesus “Jess” Franco and producer Erwin C. Dietrich comes Blue Rita, one of the strangest spy movies ever made! This lurid, sexually daring shocker follows the exploits of the titular heroine, Blue Rita (Martine Flety), an exotic dancer and gentleman’s club owner (and covert communist spy) who secretly gets off on seducing and torturing her enemies in graphic detail!

Full Moon is excited to be bringing this rarely seen Franco masterpiece to Blu-ray for the first time in North America, fully remastered in HD and totally, unapologetically uncut. This special edition release also comes with an uncut DVD, collector’s slipcase with alternate art, Hot uncensored art on the interior wrap and loads of special features!

Get ready for the sort of slick thrillride that only Jess Franco can deliver! Blu-ray/DVD combo Special Edition now only $29.95!

Blue Rita is...

Stars: Kali Hansa, Pilar Coll, Diotta Fatou, Eric Falk, Sigad Sharaf, Roman Huber | Written and Directed by Erwin C. Dietrich, Jess Franco

Weisse Haut auf schwarzen Schenkeln opens up on the Mondo Erotico set. You know, the obscenely small and narrow black room with the white fluffy bed. It’s here we meet Marga, an exotic erotic dancer played by Diotta Fatou (Die Sklavinnen). She’s in the middle of one of her stage shows. In the audience we meet Robert, a wealthy middle-aged man played by Roman Huber (Das Frauenhaus). He enjoys the show so much that when Marga has finished her little dance, he decides to take her back to somewhere private. The pair get down to business and instead of enjoying that wonderful post sex cigarette, Marga does the next best thing and throws herself out of the window. Yep, bitches be crazy! The next day Robert...

In the grand scheme of things Blue Rita aka Das Fraunhaus is film that ventures into several exploitation subgenres and ends up feeling moderately more erotic and artistic than exploitative. That’s Jess Franco for you. Just when you think you have him figured out, thinking him to be a filthy man with a proclivity for filming gorgeous naked people on screen for the sake of selling tickets, he devastates that notion with art house sensibilities, strange set design and metaphorical storytelling that has an odd sense of dystopian buried beneath a female liberation façade. Blue Rita comes to us uncut from Ascot Elite, a German distributor who is tackling the Franco filmography from the most gratuitous angle possible.

Synopsis from Ascot Elite:

“Blue Rita”, a celebrated stripper and night club owner, also works for several crime syndicates and secret service agencies on the side. In the attempt to secure some information for her bosses,...