Severin Films have announced the release of not one but two seminal Jess Franco cult classics, his ‘magnum opus’ VAMPYROS LESBOS and his follow up film the ‘erotically charged revenger’ SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY, get their Worldwide UHD Premiere. Each film will be released on two-disc 4K UHD / Blu-ray Edition, complete with stunning packaging and a slew of special features on 30 March 2026 and are available to pre-order now. VAMPYROS LESBOS seems to be the more feature packed of the two films, however havent not yet seen the movies. I will update this article more when I have viewed the films and the special features. But a round of applause to Severin Films for both these classic releases.

The brand-new release comes complete with five hours of special features including an interview with Jess Franco filmed shortly before his death, The Red Scarf Diaries – a Jess Franco career appreciation by Academy Award- winning filmmaker Sean Baker – and much more. Please see full list below.

From Jess Franco – the filmmaker The Vatican called “the most dangerous director in the world” – comes his legendary “fever dream of blood and lust” (The New York Times), for the first time ever in 4K UHD. The film stars the eternally stunning Soledad Miranda as vixen vampire, Countess Nadine Carody, who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable hunger for female flesh in “a distinctive work of art and beautiful must-see” (Classic Horror), that seductively corrupts the Dracula mythos forever. Ewa Strömberg (SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY), Dennis Price (THEATRE OF BLOOD), Paul Muller (COUNT DRACULA) and the director himself co-star in “Franco’s masterpiece” (The Digital Bits).

For the ultimate seduction, sink your teeth into Vampyros Lesbos on 4K UHD and experience it in all its gory glory courtesy of Severin Films.

VAMPYROS LESBOS 2-DISC 4K UHD / BD Special Features:

DISC ONE: UHD:

• Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, author of Daughters of Darkness
• Audio Commentary with film professor Aaron AuBuchon and Oscarbate Film Collective’s John Dickson and Will Morris
& a  German Trailer

DISC TWO: Blu-ray:

Audio Commentary with Kat Ellinger, Author of Daughters of Darkness
• Audio Commentary with Film Professor Aaron AuBuchon and Oscarbate Film Collective’s John Dickson And Will Morris
• Interlude In Lesbos – Interview with director Jess Franco
• Fever Dracula – Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco
• The Red Scarf Diaries – A Jess Franco career appreciation by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Sean Baker
• In The Land Of Franco Part 12
• Sublime Soledad – Interview with Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown
• Jess is Yoda
• German Opening Title Sequence
• & the German Trailer

TWO-DISC 4K UHD & BLU-RAY RELEASE

30 March 2026

For his follow-up to VAMPYROS LESBOS, writer/director Jess Franco delivered the “hallucinatory descent into erotic insanity” (Mondo Digital) that remains his most perversely iconic shocker of the 1970s. In her greatest role – and one of her final performances before her tragic death – the exquisite Soledad Miranda stars as a vengeful widow who seduces and murders the men and women responsible for her husband’s suicide. Howard Vernon (THE AWFUL DR. ORLOF), Paul Muller (LADY FRANKENSTEIN), Ewa Strömberg (VAMPYROS LESBOS) and Franco himself co-star in this Euro Cult masterwork “that truly shows what a creative genius Franco could be when he is at the top of his form” (Classic Horror).

The brand-new release includes an archival interview with Uncle Jess, an all-new instalment of In the Land of Franco and more. Please see full list below.

SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY 2-DISC 4K UHD / BD Special Features:

DISC ONE: UHD
just the German Trailer on this disc and of course the 4K UHD movie.

DISC TWO: Blu-ray:

Ecstasy In Rage – Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema Of
Jesús Franco
• In The Land Of Franco Part 13
• Jess Killed in Ecstasy – Interview with Writer/Director Jess Franco
• Sublime Soledad – Interview with Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown
• Paul Muller On Jess Franco – Interview with the frequent Franco star
• German Trailer