Alicia I love this movie so much

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden", also known as "Succubus", is a West German production from 1968, so this one will soon have its 50th anniversary already. It is a color movie directed by the notorious Jesús Franco and written by Pier A. Caminnecci. According to IMDb, it is a German-language movie, but I am pretty sure that with the exception of Adrian Hoven probably nobody was speaking German in here and almost all of them got dubbed when production was about to be finished I'm sure. The lead actress here is Janine Reynaud (one of Franco's muses) and she plays a young woman named Lorna, who apparently has pretty dark desires. So yeah, I personally did not enjoy the watch here at all. I have seen some of Franco's stuff and this film here is certainly a contender for being among his 5 or even 3 worst "achievements". It looks so pretentious with the dream sequences, the music, the deep and dark story etc., but it is all a mess and pretty much everybody who worked on this one really needed more talent to make this one worth checking out. This refers to the director, the writer, the actors, but also the people working in less significant positions. It looks like a really bad student film in my opinion. I know that Franco's appeal comes from his lack of perfection for many, but honestly, here I would say it even lacks mediocrity. Plus the story is complete garbage and so stupid that it's even impossible to understand most of the time what is going on. We only witness the many failed attempts of a filmmaker in coming up with a creative overall outcome. But it's far from that. It's a complete mess and I suggest you stay far far away, even if you like some of Franco's other stuff. Possibly the worst1968 film I have seen so far. And I have seen many.

christopher-underwood Delirious, near plot-less mood piece and if it's more LSD inspired than the Devil then we must remember when it was made! After a startling SM opening (which even itself is not what it seems) we move to soft focus and dream or imaginings or remembering…. Lots of literary and cinematic references and indeed this is the Franco film that Lang himself praised. Beautiful and mesmerising the film unfolds at a leisurely pace but has a richness within each fold. A rare movie to languish within. Old Jess could make 'em when he tried. Fine central performances too including the indomitable Jack Taylor and Howard Vernon. I haven't even mentioned the Lisbon locations - ah!

BA_Harrison 'Succubus', the edited version of 'Necronomicon Geträumte Sünden', is a struggle to sit through, even at a lean 76 minutes; any more of this dreadfully boring and pretentious Euro horror tripe and I may have slipped into a coma.Jess Franco once again delivers a truly awful piece of 60s trash that appears to have been made by a cast and crew out of of their heads on Class A hallucinogenics, since not one second of this mess made any sense whatsoever. Apparently, this is one of the better of his 180+ films – it's hard to believe that there are worse efforts out there.The unfathomable plot deals with Franco's usual themes of sex, violence and lesbianism and throws in a bit of S&M for good measure, and yet it still manages to remain mind numbingly tedious.I may leave it quite a while before entering the world of dodgy Euro Horror again – life is too short to be spent watching bilge like this.

Infofreak I must immediately make clear that the version of 'Succubus' I watched was the American one with the shorter running time. I have absolutely no idea what has been cut and how different this is from what Jess Franco originally intended. Even so, this is a remarkable movie, and one of the most interesting Franco movies I have seen.The beautiful Janine Reynaud plays Lorna Green, an enigmatic erotic dancer cum performance artist who stages odd, sadomasochistic events at a nightclub. She is plagued by hallucinations (?) and begins to confuse fantasy and reality, a common Franco scenario. I have to admit by the half way point I didn't have a clue what was going on, or who was who, but I didn't mind. Plot in 'Succubus' is secondary. Atmosphere, aesthetics, babes and surreal dialogue which name-dropped everyone from Stockhausen to Spillane to Mingus to De Sade, make this movie essential viewing. Reynaud is stunning to look at, there's some tasty jazz on the soundtrack, and there's the added kick of seeing the legendary Howard Vernon, a Franco regular who also appeared in everything from Godard's 'Alphaville' to Polanski's 'The Ninth Gate'.Beginners should check out 'Vampyros Lesbos' first, still the most satisfying Franco I've seen, but make 'Succubus' a close second. You'll see nothing like it anywhere!