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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.206.8
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 12:59 pm: | |
Watched this last night; maybe something I've been looking for to freshen my taste buds. But it wasn't great; its accidental qualities made it feel like a foray into somewhere new (I loved the empty train, the walk across the strange landscape, and the blind girl ('I Love you Lucy!'(I LOVE Lucy?)), and several other touches), but Rollin, alas, he shoots himself in the foot with that lovely reliance on serendipity, and so we have people stray into shot, little illogicalites and awful effects. There are times when we think we are watching the Loach of horror, a beautiful dream of a film, but then you laugh or scratch your head, and the dream shatters. I think I love much of the little Rollin I've seen, but fear it's a tricky club to be in and fully love. Should I persist in watching him, anyone?
But my God, Brigitte Lahaie! (and she's still gorgeous.) |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 01:09 pm: | |
he shoots himself in the foot with that lovely reliance on serendipity, and so we have people stray into shot, little illogicalites and awful effects.
But these are the exact things I like about Rollin fims... Grapes of Death is the best of his I've seen; IMHO he doesn't get much better. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.206.8
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 01:16 pm: | |
You seen Iron Cross? I loved that one. I do like him, I think; I've found no other atmosphere in film like his. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 01:48 pm: | |
Is that the one in the cemetery? That's an odd, creepy little film. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 01:49 pm: | |
I love La Rose de Fer, but I think his best is Night of the Hunted (the one that's kind of his version of Shivers), which I found genuinely moving and desperately sad at the end |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.206.8
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 02:04 pm: | |
Iron Rose! Of course. Nothing to do with nazis, or rather nazi zombies.
So worth sticking with? |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.206.8
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 02:05 pm: | |
Yes, there's a melancholy to his films I appreciate, a sense of heartbreak. I think it's so deep it completely overrides his lack of skill. |
Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin)
Username: Richard_gavin
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 69.157.30.167
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 01:06 am: | |
I love many of Rollin's films and consider him to be one of the few filmmakers who carried the literary tradition of French Decadent horror to the screen. Le Viol du vampire and Levres de Sang are both excellent. |