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, but these are not the zombies of George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD; they are, rather, oozing transmitters of an impassioned insanity that can only be termed anarchy. With its deeply unsettling, progressively chilling atmosphere, THE GRAPES OF DEATH may be director Jean Rollin’s most traditionally frightening film, unfolding like an ever-expanding nightmare whose noose is drawn all the tighter by the efforts of its young heroine to escape it.
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Fascination
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1979 • France
Starring Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte LahaieJean 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...
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The Living Dead Girl
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1982 • France
Starring Marina Pierro, Françoise Blanchard, Mike MarshallCatherine 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...
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Lost in New York
Directed by Jean Rollin • 1989 • France
Starring Adeline Abitbol, Catherine Herengt, Funny AbitbolAs 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...
