Bloody Jess is a twenty five minute documentary featuring distinguished actor Christopher Lee & talentless hack director Jess Franco discussing the film The Bloody Judge (1970) which Lee starred in as the title character & Franco directed.
Lee obviously speaks in English while Franco speaks in Spanish with English subtitles, various clips from The Bloody Judge are edited in to the sound-bites to illustrate points.
The two men discuss the real inspiration for the film Judge George Jeffreys & the differing opinions the two men had over his on screen portrayal. The various different titles are talked about & Christopher Lee confirms that he never knew anything about or had any involvement in the torture or sadism featured in the film & as a result of these scenes being filmed after he had left the project Lee has never seen the finished film. Nothing of any great interest is mentioned, interference from producers led to the mix of genres, the battle scenes were filmed near Madrid for about $5000 & although set in England it was shot entirely in Portugal & Spain.
Bloody Jess is watchable enough, there's nothing groundbreaking here but as this was made over thirty years after The Bloody Judge was shot that's unsurprising. The only other thing of note is the constant spelling mistake in which the captions spell Judge George Jeffreys last name as Jeffries for some strange reason, I guess it just comes down to sloppy research.
Lee obviously speaks in English while Franco speaks in Spanish with English subtitles, various clips from The Bloody Judge are edited in to the sound-bites to illustrate points.
The two men discuss the real inspiration for the film Judge George Jeffreys & the differing opinions the two men had over his on screen portrayal. The various different titles are talked about & Christopher Lee confirms that he never knew anything about or had any involvement in the torture or sadism featured in the film & as a result of these scenes being filmed after he had left the project Lee has never seen the finished film. Nothing of any great interest is mentioned, interference from producers led to the mix of genres, the battle scenes were filmed near Madrid for about $5000 & although set in England it was shot entirely in Portugal & Spain.
Bloody Jess is watchable enough, there's nothing groundbreaking here but as this was made over thirty years after The Bloody Judge was shot that's unsurprising. The only other thing of note is the constant spelling mistake in which the captions spell Judge George Jeffreys last name as Jeffries for some strange reason, I guess it just comes down to sloppy research.
