JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: La nuit des horloges (2007)
Ovidie, who stars in this film, was a “very active militant feminist” when she started her adult career. At first, she thought that porn was filled with injustice for women but was shocked by how the women were powerful sexual beings. Seeing how that worked with her feminist ideals, she started acting and said, “I […]
JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: Fascination (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally posted on October 11, 2017. Jean Rollin was a master of the fantastique, the way that the French refer to a mixture of science fiction, horror and fantasy. What’s the difference between fantastique and fantasy? The former is more concerned with the intrusion of supernatural phenomena into an otherwise realist narrative. […]
JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: The Grapes of Death (1978)
The difference between a Jean Rollin zombie adjacent movie and one made by any other director should be obvious: this is going to be a descent into madness and an exploration of how the end will come not because of the supernatural or a virus, but because humankind is, well, humankind. All Élizabeth (Marie-Georges Pascal, […]
JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: Suce-moi Vampire (1976)
The themes of childhood memories and wanting the world of fairy tales over real life empowers Lips of Blood and it was disconcerting to see so many of those scenes remixed and placed into and around clinical pornography in this movie, which was forced upon creator Jean Rollin, who used the name Michel Gand to make […]
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