In this lysergic video-orgy of jazz and revenge a.k.a. Paroxismus, KK is Ahmed Kortobawi (sic), a millionaire playboy who dies dressed up as a sheik during a bondage RPG with the revenant doppelgänger of his own sex prey (!). Tormentor and victim at the same time: purely KK. And in the end he also gets trapped (or shall we say “tripped”) in the Black Lodge, 20 years before Twin Peaks. Hail to the acid.
If casting him as Jack the Ripper and Dracula’s Renfield wasn’t enough, Exploitation-hero Jess Franco makes his idea of KK crystal clear by giving him the role of the Original Sex Freak himself (at least, a mute, haunted and jailed version of him). Too bad he never puts his sleazy claws on the naked body of a 20-year old Romina Power. Missed chance. We mean, for the better-deserving subject, not for poor Romina. But don’t worry: 1981’s Les fruits de la passion by Shūji Terayama will make up for it.
