Showing films of "Jean Rollin"

The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, THE DEMONIACS (Les Démoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a s...
Jean Rollin, France, 1974Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Dracula's Fiancee / Lost in New York
As Eurohorror pioneer Jean Rollin (Requiem for a Vampire, The Iron Rose) approached the sunset of his career, he distilled the dreamlike images and themes of his work into films that were deeply perso...
Jean Rollin, France, 2002Blu-ray, DVD

The Escapees
Jean Rollin's THE ESCAPEES revisits the directors fascination with pairs of women who wander, dreamlike, through a modern dystopia (Requiem for a Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires). Two female patients;one...
Jean Rollin, France, 1981Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Fascination
FASCINATION is often described as a vampire film yet, like few other horror films, it is actually about blood fetishism. Set in 1905, the story concerns a group of aristocratic women who acquire more ...
Jean Rollin, France, 1979Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

The Grapes of Death
The polluted wine produced for a village's annual Grape Harvest Festival has left all but a few rabid with some chemically- engendered form of zombiism. They may saunter about like sleepwalkers, but t...
Jean Rollin, France, 1978Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

The Iron Rose
THE IRON ROSE is a haunting experience - a macabre tone poem about youth and age, love and nihilism, nostalgia and superstition, and, above all, life and death. Francoise Pascal (There's a Girl in My ...
Jean Rollin, France, 1973Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Lips of Blood
LIPS OF BLOOD (Levres de sang) was considered by Jean Rollin to be the best, or most developed, story he ever wrote. Of all his films, it perhaps best transcends his tendencies toward the poetical and...
Jean Rollin, France, 1975Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

The Living Dead Girl
THE LIVING DEAD GIRL (La Morte Vivante) is the story of Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a wealthy heiress dead before her time, who is accidentally reanimated when some unfortunate mov...
Jean Rollin, France, 1982Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

The Night of the Hunted
A man driving home late one night nearly hits a beautiful, scantily-clad woman who is running wild in the streets; he takes her back to his apartment, they make love, and he discovers that she has alr...
Jean Rollin, France, 1980Blu-ray, DVD

The Nude Vampire
Wealthy industrialist Georges Radamante (Maurice Lemaitre) has dreams of immortality. Not through his own achievements, but by finding a way to share the biochemistry of the mute, orphaned vampire wom...
Jean Rollin, France, 1970Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

The Rape of the Vampire
A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the ...
Jean Rollin, France, 1968Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Requiem for a Vampire
REQUIEM?FOR?A?VAMPIRE (Requiem pour un vampire) was Jean Rollin’s favorite of all his films. Because he dredged the scenario from his subconscious, and because it was rushed into its written for...
Jean Rollin, France, 1973Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers
Best known for his erotic horror films, such as THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE, LIPS OF BLOOD, and THE LIVING DEAD GIRL, French filmmaker Jean Rollin frequently indulged in the softcore (and occasionally har...
Jean Rollin, France, 1973Blu-ray, DVD

The Shiver of the Vampires
THE SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES (Le frisson des vampires) is a most unorthodox vampire film; by turns, it is magical, eccentric, poetical, erotic, philosophical and, whenever the vampire cousins are onscre...
Jean Rollin, France, 1971
Two Orphan Vampires
TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Litt...
Jean Rollin, France, 1997Blu-ray, DVD