Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from “’Castles of Subversion’ Continued: From the Roman Noir and Surrealism to Jean Rollin” by Virginie Sélavy. This essay is featured in “Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollins,” which is available now. To celebrate the book’s release, curator and editor Samm Deighan will be on hand to introduce a special screening of Rollin’s 1971 film “The Shiver of the Vampires” at the Brooklyn Horror Festival on October 14.
Usually deserted or abandoned, often in ruins or in a state of decay, sometimes captured just before demolition, always bearing the melancholy traces of human presence, locations are key to Jean Rollin’s cinema and often were the starting points for his films. Three in particular recur throughout his work: the famous Dieppe beach (specifically Pourville-sur-Mer), the cemetery, and the castle. The latter two are typical Gothic locations and an...
Usually deserted or abandoned, often in ruins or in a state of decay, sometimes captured just before demolition, always bearing the melancholy traces of human presence, locations are key to Jean Rollin’s cinema and often were the starting points for his films. Three in particular recur throughout his work: the famous Dieppe beach (specifically Pourville-sur-Mer), the cemetery, and the castle. The latter two are typical Gothic locations and an...
- 9/25/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 18, 2014
Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $89.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Jean Rollin's Requiem for a Vampire
Kino Lorber is bundling four of French filmmaker’s Jean Rollin sexy vampire flicks together in the inevitably entitled box set Jean Rollin: The Vampire Films.
As the constraints of censorship began to see in the late 1960′s and early ’70′s, visionary French filmmaker Rollin created a series of mesmerizing horror-thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. (He took what Hammer had done in the previous decade and turned it up a kinkily erotic notch.) Fluctuating between visual allure and shocking violence, Rollin’s films have come to be recognized as vital entries in the vampire genre.
The four films—The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) and Requiem for a Vampire (1973)—are mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives.
Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $89.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Jean Rollin's Requiem for a Vampire
Kino Lorber is bundling four of French filmmaker’s Jean Rollin sexy vampire flicks together in the inevitably entitled box set Jean Rollin: The Vampire Films.
As the constraints of censorship began to see in the late 1960′s and early ’70′s, visionary French filmmaker Rollin created a series of mesmerizing horror-thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. (He took what Hammer had done in the previous decade and turned it up a kinkily erotic notch.) Fluctuating between visual allure and shocking violence, Rollin’s films have come to be recognized as vital entries in the vampire genre.
The four films—The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) and Requiem for a Vampire (1973)—are mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives.
- 2/5/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Jean Rollin "was a double outsider," argues Dave Kehr in the New York Times, "a filmmaker drawn to the fantastique in a country that had a limited tradition of genre filmmaking as well as a proud tradition of Cartesian rationalism that discouraged explorations of the supernatural. What France did offer, however, was a thriving interest in eroticism, and when Rollin was finally able to make his first feature, The Rape of the Vampire (1968), he did so by combining his childhood fascination with American cliffhanger serials and early-20th-century French fantasists like Gaston Leroux (author of The Phantom of the Opera) with gauzy nudes and exotic couplings." The British company Redemption is "collaborating with Kino International to release handsomely remastered Blu-rays, taken from the original camera negatives, of five key Rollin titles: The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), The Iron Rose (1973), Lips of Blood (1975) and Fascination (1979)."
"Entering Rollin's cinematic...
"Entering Rollin's cinematic...
- 1/30/2012
- MUBI
Euro-sleaze fans rejoice! 2012 will bring a slew of remastered, restored films by Jean Rollin to blu-ray, thanks to Kino Lorber. The distribution company, led by director/producer Bret Wood, will release nearly a dozen classic films from the French filmmaker. For those who are not familiar, Rollin (who died in 2010) was best known for his 1960s and 1970s films that mix horror with soft-core sex. Starting in January, Kino Lorber will be releasing The Nude Vampire, The Shiver of the Vampires, The Iron Rose, Lips of Blood and Fascination, with another half-dozen titles to follow throughout the year. Get more info on the releases, along with some blu-ray stills (warning: images are Nsfw) after the jump. Wood spoke to Rollin...
- 1/4/2012
- FEARnet
Following rounds 1 and 2, this one will take us right on through the countdown to Halloween and will surely be the most actively updated of the bunch. Best to begin, then, by grounding it in a classic, so we turn to David Kalat: "Frankenstein isn't a science fiction story about an arrogant scientist who intrudes on God's domain, it's a metaphor about our relationship to God." That's his argument, and I'll let him explain, but I want to pull back to a couple of earlier sentences in his piece. Mary Shelley's novel, "and the 1910 film version, treated the 'science' of Frankenstein as just so much folderol, a MacGuffin to introduce the artificial man into the story. Whale was so good at providing a reasonably convincing visualization of reviving the dead — no, more than that, a stunningly satisfying visualization of reviving the dead — it focused popular attention on that part of...
- 10/27/2011
- MUBI
Kino Lorber today announced their acquisition of Redemption Films' library of euro-horror classics for release in the Us. This collection includes a treasure trove of Jean Rollin's most famous work, among those are The Nude Vampire, The Shiver of the Vampire, The Iron Rose, Lips of Blood, and Fascination. The best part of this news is that all five of these films are scheduled to release on Blu-ray and DVD next spring from Kino, who have an overall outstanding record in high definition.The full press release is below, and it details some of the fantastic things we have to look forward to from this acquisition, including bonus material from the venerable Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog. Lucas is a veritable encyclopedia of euro-horror knowledge and...
- 10/21/2011
- Screen Anarchy
For the horror buff, Fall is the best time of the year. The air is crisp, the leaves are falling and a feeling of death hangs on the air. Here at Sound on Sight we have some of the biggest horror fans you can find. We are continually showcasing the best of genre cinema, so we’ve decided to put our horror knowledge and passion to the test in a horror watching contest. Each week in October, Ricky D, James Merolla and Justine Smith will post a list of the horror films they have watched. By the end of the month, the person who has seen the most films wins. Prize Tbd.
Ricky D (15 Viewings) Total of 29 Viewings
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Thirst (1979)
Directed by Rod Hardy
The film is best described as one long dream sequence with nods to David Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby and perhaps even Solyent Green. Thirst features some superb in-camera visual effects,...
Ricky D (15 Viewings) Total of 29 Viewings
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Thirst (1979)
Directed by Rod Hardy
The film is best described as one long dream sequence with nods to David Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby and perhaps even Solyent Green. Thirst features some superb in-camera visual effects,...
- 10/11/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Tremors? Nightbreed? Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat? 976-evil? Are all on the list this year. And though there were not huge horror wins in sound editing through screenplays, the Technical Awards never cease to bring out the horror veterans. Notably Tim Drnec who contributed to such VHS classics as Alien Seed, Destroyer, and Prison won for his work on “Spydercam 3D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.” An award also shared with Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis who both also worked on Constantine.
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
Various sites (including Fangoria) are reporting that French horror filmmaker Jean Rollin has passed away at the age of 72. Rollin was the writer/director of over 50 erotic/horror films including titles like Two Orphan Vampires, Living Dead Girl, Fascination, Grapes of Death, Lips of Blood and The Nude Vampire. More below, including a collection of trailers. Unfortunately for Rollin, his work was never really elevated beyond the world of euro-sleaze which was the predominant style of horror entertainment being imported from overseas at the time. Movies that gratuitously displayed images of nudity, sex and violence meant to titillate, disturb and sell... nothing else. Rollin's work however is worth so much...
- 12/16/2010
- FEARnet
Okay, the titles Caged Virgins, The Nude Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires, and The Grapes Of Death might not be familiar to the casual movie fan, but followers of 70′s Eurosleaze are certainly familiar with the works of French horror director Jean Rollin who passed away yesterday at age 72. Many of Rollin’s films are available of the Redemption DVD label and without Rollin’s unique output, the history of the erotic vampire film would have huge gaps. Somewhere right now there’s a naked lesbian vampire weeping.
From the Fangoria Website:
Fangoria has learned of the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin. The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72.Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin.a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush...
From the Fangoria Website:
Fangoria has learned of the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin. The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72.Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin.a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush...
- 12/16/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There were rumblings of Jean Rollins' passing yesterday, now Fangoria has confirmed the filmmaker has died at the age of 72. Mixing blood, sex and sleaze, Rollin has had a long directing career giving us The Nude Vampire , Living Dead Girl , Caged Virgins and more. Fango editor Chris Alexander, one of the biggest Rollin fans I know, spoke to the filmmaker's son, Serge, who said: "Jean was surrounded by his friends and was looking at the photos of his two granddaughters when he died."...
- 12/16/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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