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La nuit des traquées DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Brigitte Lahaie, Vincent Gardère, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau PLOT: A beautiful woman is imprisoned in an unofficial asylum housed in a skyscraper with dozens of patients; because they all suffer from short-term amnesia and can only remember events from the last few minutes, no one knows why . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (1980) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Alexandra Pic, Isabelle Teboul, Bernard Charnacé PLOT: Two eternally reborn vampire girls who are blind during the day but see at night pose as orphans and are adopted by an eye doctor who believes he can cure them. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Two Orphan Vampires is a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES (1997) Les démoniaques; AKA Curse of the Living Dead DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: John Rico, Joëlle Coeur, Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier PLOT: A crew of “wreckers” rape and apparently kill two female shipwreck survivors, but the two girls seek revenge with the help of the evil spirits who live in nearby ruins. WHY IT . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE DEMONIACS (1974) Le viol du vampire DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Bernard Letrou, Solange Pradel, Jacqueline Sieger PLOT: In Part I a psychoanalyst tries to cure four sisters of their belief that they are centuries-old vampires; in Part II, the Queen of the Vampires revives the cast members who died in Part I so she can . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE (1968) AKA Caged Virgins DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent PLOT: Two lesbian killers dressed as clowns flee the law and wind up in the hands of a vampire who needs virgins to perpetuate his race. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: One of the problems with evaluating Jean Rollin’s fantastique . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE (1973) Lèvres de sang DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Bell (as Annie Brilland), Natalie Perrey, Catherine Castel, Marie-Pierre Castel PLOT: Sparked by a castle he sees on a poster, a man has visions of a long-forgotten girl he fell in love with as a boy; mysterious forces try to stop him from . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LIPS OF BLOOD (1975) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Jean-Marie Lemaire, Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Fanny Magier PLOT: A highwayman burns his fellow brigands and holes up in a chateau, where he meets two seductive women who are expecting mysterious guests at midnight. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s one of Rollin’s most polished and conventional horror . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: FASCINATION (1979) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester (as Pierre Dupont) PLOT: Young lovers go mad when they are trapped in a cemetery overnight. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Iron Rose‘s wonderfully funereal setting and muted weirdness isn’t powerful enough to overcome its lack of events. The slow-paced visual poetry here is . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE IRON ROSE [LA ROSE DE FER] (1973) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Olivier Rollin (as Oliver Martin), Maurice Lemaître, Caroline Cartier, Ursule Pauly, Catherine Castel (as Cathy Tricot), Marie-Pierre Castel (as Pony Tricot), Michel Delahaye PLOT: A young man discovers his father has kidnapped a vampire and is studying her in hopes of learning the secret of immortality. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE NUDE VAMPIRE [LA VAMPIRE NUE] (1970) AKA Strange Things Happen at Night DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Sandra Julien, Jean-Marie Durand, Dominique, Marie-Pierre Castel (as Marie-Pierre Tricot), Kuelan Herce, Jacques Robiolles, Michel Delahaye PLOT: A honeymooning couple stops at a creepy castle to visit the bride’s distant cousins, but find their hosts have been turned into vampires. WHY IT MIGHT . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES [LE FRISSON DES VAMPIRES] (1971) |
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