About the Author

Antonio Lázaro-Reboll is senior lecturer in Hispanic studies at the University of Kent (UK), where he teaches Spanish and European film. He is the author of Spanish Horror Film and co-editor with Andrew Willis of Spanish Popular Cinema.

Ian Olney is an associate professor of English at York College of Pennsylvania, where he teaches film studies. He is the author of Zombie Cinema and Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, as well as numerous essays on European cinema and the horror film.

Reviews

A requisite for anyone conducting serious inquiry into Jess Franco.--Vanessa Ceia "Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas"

For Franco fans, much of the information in this collection will be already well known; none the less the analysis of the individual contributions is engaging, and, though the more familiar Franco films still tend to be prominent in the discussions, the editors and contributors offer a reasonably three-dimensional perspective of the director that is well worth the reading time of anyone interested in his work or in Spanish and European horror filmmaking in general. The volume serves as a useful critical introduction and adds to the efforts elsewhere to reappraise the director.--Ann Davies "Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies"

The authors in The Films of Jess Franco, by the mere choice of Franco as a critical focus, exhibit a commitment to intensive research. The product of this research is an engaging look at a forgotten corner of exploitation cinema. . . . The book proves that Franco's oeuvre has been almost criminally ignored, his horrotica a deep well for an academic discussion of exploitation cinema's artistic merits.--Alex Brannan "Film International"