When combined with the popular spy genre of the time the director had something that would appeal to international audiences. His inspiration was within the Bob Hope road comedies and the hijinks of Abbott and Costello. After his successful 1968 film Succubus AKA: Necronomicon he had the financial stability and support to remake Red Lips. The two productions are a remake of Franco’s failed 1960 effort Labios Rojos which didn’t get a proper release at the time. Strip teases, occultists, and dance parties pad the film giving us plenty to look at but very little to understand. Soon the two are traveling to the Mediterranean on a mission to decipher the convoluted clues. Arriving back home after their previous mission the ladies are met with a murdered violinist who delivers the message “the black devil is under the red sea”. Win, win? Unfortunately, there are no werewolves here but you do get a hooded cult and an island paradise filled with lesbian virgins. Franco recycles some footage, gives you less plot, but provides more eye candy than the first film. The follow-up Kiss Me Monster is a cobbled-together sequel that picks up where the last one left off. The film offers barely a plot but plenty of gorgeous things to admire from the actresses and the scenery. A product of the early James Bond era, Franco works with his typical exploitative style with small bits indicating the future master of sleaze with the Morpho werewolf character. Scenes barely end before uptempo jazz plays over a go-go dancer or we cut to the girls in the tub. It’s all fun and games until a werewolf man shows up and the ladies are met with more than they desired.ĭetails like names are secondary to the ogling of the women, the dancers, and the romantic ramblings of the men who are obsessed with these women. Here the ladies are hired to track down a missing model named Lida whose likeness shows up in an art exhibit. Using their innate feminine qualities, The Red Lips Detective Agency solves their convoluted cases by duping men with their bodies. Regina (Rosanna Yanni, Count Dracula’s Great Love) and Diana (Janine Reynaud, Libido: The Urge to Love) are the Two Undercover Angels in this Eurospy romp which hopes to combine the appeal of international espionage and sexy ladies having fun. “What is it that INTERPOL needs? A kiss!”
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