Crafty Diana (ravishing redhead stunner Janice Reynaud) and ditsy Regina (lovely blonde knockout Rosanna Yanni) are a couple of sexy super sleuths known as the Red Lips. The gorgeous gals go after perverted pop artist Klaus Tiller (a nicely sinister turn by Adrian Hoven), who's killing various models, actresses and exotic dancers for the sake of his extreme art.
Director/co-writer Jess Franco relates the eventful plot at a steady pace and maintains a cheerfully silly tongue-in-cheek tone throughout. Reynaud and Yanni make for gorgeous and appealing leads; their natural and unforced easy'n'breezy chemistry keeps the picture humming. The rest of the cast is likewise solid, with nifty contributions by Chris Howland as gallant British detective Francis McClune, Marcelo Arroita-Jauregui as the bumbling Inspector Tanner, Manolo Otero as dashing Italian playboy Vittorio Freda, and Michel Lemoine as Tiller's freakish werewolf-like henchman Morpho. The delicious Dorit Dom burns up the screen with a couple of sizzling hot striptease set pieces at a swinging nightclub. The polished cinematography by Jorge Herrero and Franz Hofer gives the film an attractive vibrant look. Jerry van Rooyen's robust jazzy score hits the groovy spot. While this flick is admittedly pretty mild and innocuous stuff compared to Franco's more racy and explicit movies, there's nonetheless a good-natured quality evident throughout which makes the whole thing an entertainingly goofy diversion. A real campy hoot.
Director/co-writer Jess Franco relates the eventful plot at a steady pace and maintains a cheerfully silly tongue-in-cheek tone throughout. Reynaud and Yanni make for gorgeous and appealing leads; their natural and unforced easy'n'breezy chemistry keeps the picture humming. The rest of the cast is likewise solid, with nifty contributions by Chris Howland as gallant British detective Francis McClune, Marcelo Arroita-Jauregui as the bumbling Inspector Tanner, Manolo Otero as dashing Italian playboy Vittorio Freda, and Michel Lemoine as Tiller's freakish werewolf-like henchman Morpho. The delicious Dorit Dom burns up the screen with a couple of sizzling hot striptease set pieces at a swinging nightclub. The polished cinematography by Jorge Herrero and Franz Hofer gives the film an attractive vibrant look. Jerry van Rooyen's robust jazzy score hits the groovy spot. While this flick is admittedly pretty mild and innocuous stuff compared to Franco's more racy and explicit movies, there's nonetheless a good-natured quality evident throughout which makes the whole thing an entertainingly goofy diversion. A real campy hoot.