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Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin

Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin

6 Episodes

Dreamlike, hauntingly atmospheric visions of sex, blood, and existential ennui, the poetic-erotic fantasies of French art-horror master Jean Rollin exist on a hypnotic wavelength all their own. Frequently employing the figure of the female, often lesbian, vampire as a vessel for Rollin’s symbol-laden explorations of desire, outsiderhood, and mortality, these films—including revered cult works like REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE, FASCINATION, and THE LIVING DEAD GIRL—drift languorously through dark forests, decaying castles, and desolate graveyards, melancholic landscapes suffused with a sublimely eerie beauty.

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Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin

6 Episodes

  • Requiem for a Vampire
    1:27:06
    Requiem for a Vampire
    Episode 1

    Requiem for a Vampire

    Episode 1

    Directed by Jean Rollin • 1972 • France
    Starring Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent, Philippe Gasté

    With its scenario dredged from director Jean Rollin’s subconscious and a script written in only two days, the dreamlike horror fantasia REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE was cited by its maker as his pures...

  • Lips of Blood
    1:27:05
    Lips of Blood
    Episode 2

    Lips of Blood

    Episode 2

    Directed by Jean Rollin • 1975 • France
    Starring Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Belle, Natalie Perrey

    Director Jean Rollin blends a moody tale of vampirism and incest with his signature obsessions: childhood, nostalgia, lost love, romantic quests, cinema, obsolescence. While attending a launch party ...

  • The Grapes of Death
    1:30:51
    The Grapes of Death
    Episode 3

    The Grapes of Death

    Episode 3

    Directed by Jean Rollin • 1978 • France
    Starring Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand

    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, bu...

  • Fascination
    1:21:43
    Fascination
    Episode 4

    Fascination

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jean Rollin • 1979 • France
    Starring Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte Lahaie

    Jean Rollin’s erotic masterpiece is often described as a vampire film—yet, more than nearly any other horror movie, its true subject is blood fetishism. Set in 1905, the story concerns a group of ari...

  • The Living Dead Girl
    1:30:00
    The Living Dead Girl
    Episode 5

    The Living Dead Girl

    Episode 5

    Directed by Jean Rollin • 1982 • France
    Starring Marina Pierro, Françoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall

    Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a wealthy heiress dead before her time, is accidentally reanimated when some unfortunate movers attempt to store drums of chemical waste in the neglected bu...

  • Lost in New York
    54:40
    Lost in New York
    Episode 6

    Lost in New York

    Episode 6

    Directed by Jean Rollin • 1989 • France
    Starring Adeline Abitbol, Catherine Herengt, Funny Abitbol

    As Eurohorror legend Jean Rollin approached the sunset of his career, he distilled his dreamlike images and provocative, existential themes into films that were deeply personal and unapologetically...

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